In their book Flight of the Buffalo, corporate gurus James Belasco and Ralph Stayer beautifully state the politics of change when they say, "change is ...
12:59 AM, May 07, 2013
Given that China has once again decided to 'sweeten' it's recent offer of a Panchsheel redux with a nice juicy intrusion into Indian Territory in ...
06:57 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Citizen Journalist Dhananjay Dubey shows pictures of his courageous brother Satyendra Dubey - who was brutally murdered in November 2003 for fighting corruption. Whistleblower Stayendra ...
05:02 PM, Apr 22, 2013
The recent outcry of middle-class men and women, many of whom not associated with any political party or developmental organisation, is an important phenomenon that ...
12:21 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Could 2013 see Washington pushing India harder on arms sales? The buzz is that President Obama, in his second term, will do precisely that (perhaps ...
03:05 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Even as Kejriwal made his 'startling disclosures' on Reliance controlling the Government, came news from China that Premier Wen Jiabao has accumulated billions from various ...
05:06 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Today is Nobomi, or, as they say in Delhi, Navami. Just before rushing off to the Kashmere Gate pujo, which is in its 103rd year ...
02:02 PM, Oct 23, 2012
Greedy owners and cataract-ic managers have hollowed out Indian journalism from within, but it is self-obsessing editors with yacht-size lifestyles that have inflicted the most ...
08:07 PM, Oct 14, 2012
In a world of falling standards, nothing has been worse hit than good ol' fashioned home-style cooking in Muslim homes across Upper India. I was ...
05:26 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Dialogue is the conversation, usually between two people or two or more characters. Sometimes, it can be dialogue a character has with himself/herself. These are ...
01:06 PM, Sep 12, 2012
It is quite surprising that the Comptroller and Auditor General has not advised denationalisation of the coal industry in its report to Parliament. The CAG ...
08:38 PM, Aug 17, 2012
With each new episode of Satyamev Jayate - actor Aamir Khan's 13-part television show - comes a welter of debate. Every episode trends on the ...
11:52 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Let's touch upon a crucial component of novel writing - Characters. Sometimes ideas can come in the guise of characters. Like I said before, ...
09:34 AM, Jul 09, 2012
The Higgs boson particle experiment has dominated headlines over the last couple of days. It has also triggered various debates ranging from science, religion, god ...
06:43 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Friday was a typical weekday morning at my parents' home in Gurgaon where I'm staying. First, a guy came to fix the printer. Then another ...
12:52 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Child sexual abuse is a grave matter. Being a parent myself, I find that my one mission in life is to save my child from ...
01:44 PM, May 23, 2012
Democracy is always inventive, exploiting mediums to create fresh theatre. It seems to create new sites for protest, new forms of dialogue, and new ways ...
09:57 AM, May 15, 2012
(The fact that we need an education from a Bollywood actor being paid an astronomical sum to understand our social woes is as much a ...
10:51 AM, May 14, 2012
The social awareness overdrive that has been created by the Satyamev Jayate is remarkable. The superstar effect seems to have worked with the masses, at ...
11:53 AM, May 10, 2012
Last Sunday started in a rather unusual way. Aamir Khan, in his show Satyamev Jayate, exposed a grim reality of the world's largest democracy. His ...
10:00 AM, May 08, 2012
