Ever since his second term as prime minister began in May, Manmohan Singh has been out on foreign tours so often that in South Block he is now jocularly known as the 'Flying Sikh'--a sobriquet reserved for India's most famous athlete of the 1960s.

For a species that is facing the gravest threat to its sole habitat we seem to be pretty casual about saving it as the recently concluded Climate Change Conference at Copenhagen demonstrated. You could forgive the dinosaurs--they didn't know that a meteorite was going to clobber the earth leading to catastrophic climate changes and their rapid extinction.

After failing at Copenhagen, we pinned our hopes on Mexico City; in Mexico, we'll look for some place else
Barun Roy / New Delhi December 31, 2009, 0:27 IST

T. Jayaraman

The strategy of the major developing nations has provided a reprieve from the danger of the breakdown of global negotiations. But their compromise highlights the dilemma of engaging the United States without allowing it to dictate the global climate agenda.

As I listened to Denmark

NEW DELHI: The outcome of the Conference of Parties at Copenhagen is