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Hemant Krishan Singh: For India and Japan, both symbolism and substance
The visit of Japan's emperor and empress to India is shortly to be followed by one from its dynamic new prime minister, showing how this is an indispensable partnership
Aditi Phadnis: Blues at son-rise
What Assam needs is a young hand at the helm with creative ideas, not another dynasty emerging from the Gogoi family
Sunil Sethi: The best bookshelf of 2013
This was a rather better year for non-fiction than fiction. That exciting serial known as history, as a form of storytelling, yielded a rich and varied crop
Deepak Lal: China's geopolitical resurgence
Chinese history provides its rulers with no templates for dealing with other states as equals
Beyond records, new opportunities
Gaitonde's untitled yellow on canvas became the most expensive work by an Indian artist when it sold for Rs 23.4 cr on Thursday
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Split screens
The word "marquee" evokes a grand theatre, where films are screened in the way they were originally made to be shown
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The Moral Meltdown Year
With the Supreme Court ruling on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, matters of sexual identity captured public imagination once again
Jaimini Bhagwati: Lessons from the NSEL fiasco
The government must take steps to end the gaps in regulatory oversight
Bharat Bhushan: Indecision will put AAP in peril
With the Aam Aadmi Party's main political plank demanding a Lok Pal virtually gone, the party is struggling to react to the tricky situation that confronts it
Bhupesh Bhandari: Congress Inc and its CEO
Gandhi is the only political surname that resounds all over the country, though its ability to leverage the brand recall to get votes can be debated
A historic step forward
Lok Pal important measure, but more needed
Fear of tapering
Now, India's policymakers must focus on domestic bottlenecks
Nitin Desai: It's the economy, people
It's the floundering economy that caused the Congress' grievous loss in the Assembly elections
Rajiv Lall: Bitter truths about sugar policies
In India's sugar bowl Maharashtra and elsewhere, policies serve a range of vested interests that have created a serious political stalemate
T S Vishwanath: Trans-Pacific deadlocks
Trade ministers have crossed the 2013 deadline to come up with possible landing zones in many areas where negotiations are still on
Kanika Datta: Paternalism in women's rights
The degree to which the anti-rape and workplace laws will improve the unenviable lot of most Indian women depends on how far society in general and men in particular are prepared to embrace the change