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Batman shooting: Why can't media learn power of silence?
For major public tragedies of senseless deaths and injuries, words fail to explain why. But unfortunately it doesn't stop the media from trying anyway.
Indo-Pak cricket: Why does India keep giving when Pak just takes
Just when Washington and other capitals are finally tightening the screws on Islamabad, New Delhi is finding excess generosity in its heart. India will resume cricketing ties and may lift the ban on Pakistani television channels. Why?
Nasheed wants India to be vocal, will India listen?
To abandon a president who during his tenure definitely tried to align his country with India on national security issues and shunned overtures from a certain large “frenemy” is just bad policy. And to add not too fine a point, Nasheed was the first democratically elected president of the Maldives.
Are London Olympics the most paranoid ever?
Will a paranoid Britain overreact for the next two months at every twitch and ill-timed joke because of the Olympics?
Clinton’s Pak ‘apology’ does not mean much
A careful reading of Hillary Clinton’s statement should clarify that “mistakes” were made by both sides. The apology fits in the daily management, not in the big picture.
No answers, only moralising: one year after UK's phone hacking scandal
The Leveson Inquiry into the phone hacking scandal will only perhaps reveal the journalistic practices of the last 20 -30 years. What will matter is what journalists do so that people have faith in them again.
Will Obama's healthcare law victory secure him a second term?
Obama is in a stronger position than he has been for a while but will that hold till November and ensure he gets a second term in office?
Obama wins, America loses in big week for Supreme Court decisions
The future of the Affordable Care Act will be decided today but the future of the US will be decided by the spending on the presidential campaign in November.
European voters could still pull the EU apart
Greece may have appeased the rest of Europe by voting in a pro-austerity party but the link between the nations remains tenuous at best even now.
#neverseconds: How a school lost to a nine-year-old on Twitter
Friday's Twitter meltdown in the UK was a perfect example of how to not only fail to adhere to your own strategy, but also to aggravate and make the situation worse.
India, US are talking ten to the dozen
India wants to be close to the US, buy American weapons, and even send signals to China but not in too overt a manner.
Will Julian Assange ever consider the consequences of his actions?
The 40-year-old is accused of raping one woman and "sexually molesting and coercing" another in Stockholm almost two years ago.
The slow and inevitable isolation of Pakistan
When the game has changed, it is pointless to play by old rules. Pakistan’s impossible demands and exaggerated expectations, which may have been met once upon a time, have a strange dissonance today.
God (Don't) Save the Queen?
With the BBC being accused of acting like the royal PR machinery, it perhaps needs to take more diverse views into account while covering the jubilee celebrations.
Pak trades pride for dollars; returns to the 'business' of war
Pakistan comes to the sobering realisation that it can always extract more money from the Americans, but it cannot command, or even demand, respect.
Does Obama's support for same-sex marriages really matter?
Obama's support for same sex marriages is being hailed by some quarters but until they have the same legality and rights as heterosexual marriages, mere support has little value.
Why the hate on France after Hollande's victory?
Why are opinions in the US and UK so vitriolic against the French after they elected Francois Hollande as their President?
India-US: A relationship 'oversold'?
Critics say India will never be what the US wants in a partner and disappointments will continue to darken the future. So why invest so much?
Osama letters: Getting into the dark mind of 'the Sheikh'
For the hundreds of journalists poring over the letters of Osama Bin Laden released by the US there may be little information that reveals anything of any consequence. However, his musings on US Vice President Joe Biden make for an interesting read.
It's not about journalism or Murdoch, it's partisan politics
The Labour MPs and all those columnists who are wetting themselves in excitement at having a pop at Murdoch have actually lowered themselves to partisanship and muddied "truths" they so despise in Murdoch.
Rupert Murdoch: Your doting granddad or evil mad genius?
Murdoch Sr, in two days, was a gatling gun of headlines that sent the media in so many directions they lost focus on the witness himself.
The states that don't matter in America
The US continues to stick with an system to elect its presidents that results in voters in many states having no real say in who the next leader of the country will be.
Breivik's truth: Is the fear of multiculturalism the enemy within us?
Anders Breivik may have shocked most of the world with most of his statements about the mass murder but may have had a point that he wasn't the only one who feared multiculturalism, something he shares with many European leaders and citizens.
Norway massacre: Trial of a fanatic who killed 77 people
The hard part of watching major events like Breivik's trial is avoiding the declaration that their criminal actors are simply "evil".
The importance of being Shah Rukh Khan
SRK arrived in a private plane accompanied by the wife of one of India’s biggest industrialists. A suspect won’t enter a country with such fanfare. In the end rules must be applied with intelligence.
Zardari+Lunch+Trade = Change? Not
India should strengthen the hands of the civilian government against the deep state, but can the civilians deliver on the key issue of terror? The answer is no.
Are Scotland's politicians like pandas that can't mate?
Maybe the real fascination of the media with mating pandas in Scotland is that our politicians can't seem to fall in love either.
Pakistan gets 3rd degree on Balochistan
Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican Congressman from California, loudly declared Pakistan as the “enemy” of the United States and advocated support for an independent Balochistan.
Dharun Ravi trial: American judicial overkill, and underkill
Two separate cases of hate crime in the US have evoked two vastly different judicial responses, exposing the double-standards of the US justice system.
A brief history of modernity
The Greeks asked themselves that if everything had a cause, how could the universe, and indeed god, have come to being from nowhere?