Whether or not Mr Lalit Modi carries out his threat of exposing his erstwhile colleagues in the cricket board, the Indian Premier League that he launched in 2008 has thrown up enough muck for Parliament and the Government to step in and clean up the mess. Ever since the Shashi Tharoor-Kochi franchise affair hit the headlines, it is obvious that not all is well with Indian cricket in general and with IPL in particular.

As the United Progressive Alliance Government enters the second year in office since its return to power in 2009, it is becoming increasingly clear that the coalition’s politics of survival is proving to be detrimental to the maintenance of standards in public life. Recent events also show that the office of Prime Minister is becoming weaker by the day and that he has virtually lost the power to either discipline or sack non-Congress members of the Union Council of Ministers.

Leaders of the Congress are scurrying for cover as the television and print media have begun bombarding the nation with hitherto unknown facts about the horrific environmental disaster that struck Bhopal in 1984. While a host of Congress leaders, including senior Ministers in the Manmohan Singh Government, and party functionaries .......

This year marks the 60th anniversary of our Constitution. Looking back, we can be justifiably proud of the fact that we have effectively worked our Constitution, given wider meaning and content to the freedoms enshrined in it, and tried to inject fresh life into core constitutional values like equity and equality. However, despite these achievements, there are forces within this country which tend .....