Mukul Roy, the new railway minister, is a very quick learner. Within a day of taking over, he has decided that the Railways do not ...
05:14 PM, Mar 22, 2012
The business of news can be very demanding, uncompromising and extremely cruel. What defines news depends not only on the gravity of the incident, but ...
05:07 PM, Mar 20, 2012
I'm always on Twitter, addicted to news. Tonight I lost interest in how many people retweet me. I do not care if you read this ...
11:55 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Stop, stop right there and come out of the stadium. Switch off that TV. You have messed it all up. Your cricketing viewpoint is suffering ...
01:53 PM, Mar 12, 2012
There can be little doubt that Gujarat is India's dragon state. The past decade has been the best since Gujarat became a state in 1960. ...
02:22 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Democracy is rough road littered with potholes. Either you avoid them and play safe, or you fill them up for a smoother ride in the ...
01:16 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Over the years, Roger Federer has not exactly shied away from indulging in an audacious remark or two, be it an insight into his own ...
11:29 AM, Feb 28, 2012
More than two years after he imposed a moratorium on the commercial release of BT Brinjal, Jairam Ramesh defends his controversial decision says, "On BT ...
04:40 PM, Feb 27, 2012
On a day when television channels stayed focused on the fallout of the ongoing tussle between the Army Chief and the Government, hundreds of people ...
03:52 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Those who have seen the documentary 'Capturing the Friedmans' would probably understand the meaning of 'perturbing reality'. The film showcases a family whose head has ...
05:29 PM, Feb 14, 2012
One hundred hundreds. A series whitewash. Another series whitewash, this time the whitewasher becoming the whitewashed. Statistics, decimal points, run rates, rankings - perhaps it ...
12:44 PM, Feb 13, 2012
India has rashly opened its hand in the Maldives power play Mohammad Nasheed ceased to be President of Maldives on February 7. Within hours, ...
06:10 PM, Feb 09, 2012
I have never met Mr. N Srinivasan. In fact, I have never even had a conversation with him. But I do enjoy hearing him talk ...
12:19 PM, Feb 09, 2012
I have never met Mr. N Srinivasan. In fact, I have never even had a conversation with him. But I do enjoy hearing him talk ...
11:48 AM, Feb 09, 2012
For the last few days, Salman Rushdie is in the news. Some are speaking in his favour and some against. A controversy is on. His ...
06:47 PM, Jan 24, 2012
The English-language Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) will be blacked out for 24 hours across the globe from 05:00 AM UTC (10:30 AM IST) on January 18 in ...
07:49 PM, Jan 17, 2012
The debate on higher education has always existed in this country. In most cases, it has been on the peripherals with the academics venting their ...
03:49 PM, Jan 12, 2012
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Most of us in Mumbai had hoped for a quiet New Year after an eventful news year. But along came Anna. In the ...
09:06 PM, Dec 23, 2011
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Recently I got an opportunity to visit Chianttar and shoot a few corruption-related Citizen Journalist stories. Located around 45 km from Patna, Chianttar is a ...
01:16 PM, Dec 22, 2011
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"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable," said the great ballerina Margot Fonteyn. Now ...
01:06 PM, Dec 09, 2011
