Uncontrolled fear is the greatest threat to the sanctity of liberty and freedoms that mankind has struggled to attain for centuries. Terror incidents that shock ...
02:57 AM, Jun 12, 2013
The controversy generated over the invite extended to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to address the India Economic Forum at The Wharton School of the ...
06:57 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Top-class cricket teams are getting skittled out for shambolic totals such as 47 and 49, as witnessed in Tests in South Africa this year. They ...
08:22 PM, Feb 08, 2013
Now that Barack Obama has won a second term, let's look at some of the reasons for his victory in what was predicted as a ...
01:34 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Legend has it that sometime in the 10th century, shiploads of Zoroastrians, fleeing persecution in their native Iran, landed on the coast of Saurashtra in ...
04:26 PM, Oct 30, 2012
Just a few days ago, people doffed their proverbial caps and pagdis to mark 50 years since the Beatles' had cut their first record, the ...
04:37 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi has been drawing the crowds right through her US trip. It's the pro-democracy activist and Nobel laureate's first trip to the ...
04:41 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Salman Rushdie seems in his element, chatting to a crowd, reading from his own work in his sonorous voice - pitch-perfect, except when the mikes ...
11:59 AM, Sep 21, 2012
Sometimes, the first person can take the 'voice' of several characters in a novel. Put simply, it means that the same story can be told ...
12:00 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Last night I came back from a breathless visit to Calcutta, the city where I spent 17 years, including my most formative ones. Middle school, ...
12:52 PM, Jun 26, 2012
A person often looks helpless and vulnerable in front of his wife or on the hospital bed and maybe even in the court room. How ...
07:58 PM, Apr 23, 2012
It is not without reason that AK Antony is referred to as 'Saint' Antony. When you've spent four decades in public life and don't have ...
12:10 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Defence Minister A K Antony made some rare interventions in Parliament over the last two days after the Army Chief Gen V K Singh spoke ...
05:36 PM, Mar 28, 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
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
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
![Chetan Narula]( "Chetan Narula")
"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
![Suresh Menon]( "Suresh Menon")
Cricket's most enduring - and endearing - statistic is 99.94, the average that Don Bradman finished with. There is something charming about that figure, a ...
01:22 PM, Dec 05, 2011
![Jhinuk Sen]( "Jhinuk Sen")
It will be 2012 in a few weeks and we can all wait for 'The Dark Knight Rises' and if the stories are correct - ...
05:56 PM, Dec 02, 2011
![Jaimon Joseph]( "Jaimon Joseph")
"Seen Neo in the Matrix? Well, just like Neo is surrounded by all those numbers in the movie trailer, I'm surrounded by numbers - telemetry ...
12:21 AM, Oct 29, 2011
