The Acorn  

Hindsight 20/20

• 2009
  • It's a national agenda, stupid!
  • No coup for now
  • Why lose sleep over a few thousand tribesmen
• 2008
  • Do you smile when thugs wreck your car?
  • Right said Sainath
• 2007
  • Judge and the jackboot
  • The Indian Economy needs you
  • Truth before reconciliation
• 2006
  • Albright not alright (2)
• 2005
  • And India will shield itself from ballistic missiles using...kind words?
  • American concerns on the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline
  • The Kashmir bus creeps on the Constitution
  • Arms to Nepal: China & Pakistan must be blocked (2)
• 2004
  • My Hindi post on Nukta Chini
  • Reading Signals One would have expected that a regime that was so recently fingered for the worst nuclear proliferation in history would be on its best behaviour. Yet the United States has bent over backwards to oblige Musharraf's domestic political needs. The bomb-loving Pakistani segment takes this to be a tacit nod of Pakistani power to threaten the international community. Here's the bad news - they are right.
  • Saudi Arabia going the Uganda way
  • South East Asia's terrorist queen bee to be released
• 2003
  • Opinion formation was in progress