It was an extremely sultry afternoon by Bangalore standards. The Congress office on Queens's road, deserted till the second half of the counting day, was ...
06:58 AM, May 14, 2013
The debates surrounding Gujarat has in the last decade revolved perhaps a little too much around Narendra Modi. His followers have tried to portray him ...
03:37 PM, Dec 07, 2012
A recent recipient of the Moortidevi Award given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith as well as the Sitara-e-Imtiaz given by the Government of Pakistan, Prof Gopichand ...
01:13 PM, Nov 20, 2012
Jagmohan Chaudhuri used to live in village Sandesh of Bhojpur District of Bihar. He was married to Bijanti Kunwar, and had five children. It was ...
12:26 PM, Oct 30, 2012
Once there were wells of fresh sweet water. The scent of wildflowers wafted from the fields and meadows that ringed the city. Plentiful fish were ...
01:01 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Kings XI Punjab skipper Adam Gilchrist thinks the IPL is gradually becoming a league of 'haves' and 'have-nots' - is his concern realistic, or is ...
11:54 AM, May 09, 2012
When Kolkata Knight Riders decided not to retain Sourav Ganguly ahead of the re-auction in 2011, there was a lot of chaos. Cricket fans in ...
07:47 AM, May 07, 2012
Nothing compares to the flair that Pakistan players bring to a cricket field. It's not much different to the swagger of a Vivian Richards, the ...
11:49 AM, May 06, 2012
The TRP ratings may not say so, but going by the attendances recorded at the stadiums across the country, the Indian Premier League is back, ...
08:50 AM, May 01, 2012
IPL 5 may not have garnered the same TRP as the first three seasons but the cricket has been very entertaining thus far. It's been ...
12:27 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Most people I meet generally have two kinds of queries regarding the commercial aspects of IPL. Some wonder how the franchises, which dole out millions ...
09:14 AM, Apr 12, 2012
How would you define Dev Anand's style? I think you are at loss of words. Similarly, Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna, and ...
07:59 PM, Mar 28, 2012
It is often remarked that the only thing missing in India's missile portfolio is a subsonic cruise missile akin to the BGM-109G Tomahawk ground launched ...
12:28 PM, Mar 09, 2012
India's heart pines for Africa - Mahatma Gandhi supposedly said that a long time ago. With China pouring in billions into the continent, that ...
09:22 PM, Mar 08, 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
Was Dr Madhavan Nair guilty of any wrongdoing? I'm neither informed nor qualified enough to comment on that. But should a man who took India ...
11:24 PM, Jan 25, 2012
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Anna Hazare's fight against corruption is now a full blown mass movement. The country is with him and he knows that! From school and college ...
08:50 AM, Aug 17, 2011
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Bihar, in a new, resurgent India, is often presented as a case study of what a positive politics of development and inclusive growth can yield. ...
06:48 PM, Jun 20, 2011
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24 x 7 media is an amoral beast and the camera is Shiva's third eye. It sees the positive and the negative, and it doesn't ...
12:01 AM, Jun 17, 2011
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While liberals dismiss Baba Ramdev's anti-graft agitation as an aberration, there is a clear-cut agenda in his politics. It is intrinsically linked to a revival ...
02:50 PM, Jun 10, 2011
