BJP MP Tarun Vijay has come under the police scanner in RTI activist Shehla Masood’s murder case as phone records show he had been in touch with her, even as demand for CBI probe grows louder

The Jan Lokpal bill is a "regressive piece of legislation" and Anna Hazare has been "used as a prop by foreign-funded NGOs" to lead the anti-corruption movement, says Arundhati Roy

Adding strength to the fast growing democratic movement against Team Anna, former Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde has urged Anna Hazare to refrain from dictating terms to Parliament

Team Anna and their cohorts have blinked. Parliament will not pass Jan Lokpal bill in its present draconian form, thanks to all those writers and thinkers who dared to speak up against Anna

The name and attire are the only remnants of Biyyathil Mohyuddin Kutty’s Malayalee roots. Now, the 80-year-old Pakistani national strives for Indo-Pak peace, says Madhusree Chatterjee

Every TV watching Indian knows Kiran Bedi. But not Brij Bedi, a social activist in his own right, who lives in Amristar, away from his famous wife for three decades. Nirupama Dutt meets him

Seeing a separate Eelam as the only solution in Sri Lanka, Seeman favours a referendum in Tamil areas on it. He feels intellectual warfare will be a better weapon to get the rights of Tamils

Nandan Nilekani, chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India feels Lokpal is just one of the many ways of tackling corruption and urges protestors to work through the system

Every true Indian needs to show solidarity with Irom Sharmila, the ‘Iron Lady of Manipur’ who has been fasting for nearly 11 years against a draconian law that tramples the rights of people

When it is fashionable to be with Anna Hazare, here is someone who is not. P C Vinoj Kumar has five valid reasons not to support what the media projects as a mass uprising against corruption

To subdue the Tamils in Sri Lanka forever, the Sinhalese are destroying the self-reliance of the local economic structures built over the years. A visitor to the island’s north was shocked

Harsha and Prabha Koda will embark on a 70-day journey on their Mahindra Xylo this Independence Day from Mumbai to Kanyakumari, cruising along India’s borders, to spread stem cell awareness

Responding to The Weekend Leader’s appeal to readers to send in ideas to rehabilitate Delhi’s tongawallas, Swagat Sen from Noida has sent a lovely suggestion. We welcome more ideas.

Sri Lankan Tamils live in fear in the highly militarized North as they cannot go about their daily chores without the army’s nod. A visitor brings to light startling facts of life after war

Plying of tongas has been banned in Delhi. But as Mohita Nagpal finds out some are still in the business to avoid starvation. TWL invites suggestions from readers to help the tongawallahs