Amit Kapoor and Sandeep Goyal The onset of summer and rising mercury levels will soon lead to a huge demand for ice-creams and frozen desserts across India. This implies a huge sales opportunity for these…
By Vikas Datta Every literary work has its significance, for good or bad, but sometimes only its negatives receive focus, leading to some striking creations being disparaged, damned and doomed. Like this ornate Urdu tale…
By Saeed Naqvi In Ahmed Kathrada’s death in Johannesburg at age 87, students of South African history have lost a precious resource person with a unique perspective on one of the world’s great national liberation…
By Amulya Ganguli The continued presence of insensate prejudice and brutal violence in public life has again been highlighted by the recent attacks on African students in Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh, a township near…
By Kul Bhushan India has a great deal to lose by mistreating and beating up Africans who come to study or live in the country. The latest attacks on March 27, 2017 on Nigerian students…
By Anil K. Rajvanshi Last month, my mother, who is 92, fell in the bathroom and broke her pelvic bone. I live in the rural town of Phaltan in western Maharashtra and to get a…
By Syed Ubaidur Rahman The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has told the Supreme Court that Triple Talaq in a single sitting is not just Islamic but it has been sanctioned by the Quran…
By Sreeradha Datta India and Bangladesh, two South Asian democracies, are also neighbours with the longest common border of over 4,000 km. They are also partners in progress and development and have, over the last…
By Ivetta Gerasimchuk, Lucy Kitson & Lourdes Sanchez Common problems potentially require common solutions, and the need for a dialogue. This is true in the case of China and India when it comes to their…
By Vatsal Srivastava With the positive market sentiment created by the sweeping BJP win in the UP state election and a global sell-off in the US dollar, rupee bulls have managed to take the USD/INR…
By Amit Kapoor An eventful financial year nears its end on March 31. It was a year of tumultuous ups and downs that witnessed a couple of historic economic moments. The year began with a…
By Vikas Datta Mowgli, the wolf-raised child in a central Indian jungle, and Kim, the orphan drawn into the “Great Game”, may be his most enduring child characters, but Rudyard Kipling is responsible for other…
By Amulya Ganguli Few people will believe that the former External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna’s exit from the Congress and entrance to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be a great loss for the former…
By Saeed Naqvi These are trying times. Even some friends are turning. They probably see their interest better protected by keeping their options open for adjustments, should excesses increase. And even if they show their…
By Alison Saldanha “It is unfortunate that some opponents, communalists are trying to portray him as a rabble-rouser and fringe personality. They should go through his parliamentary debates. Those reveal his seasoned thinking on various…
By Amit Kapoor The conversation around BJPs electoral win in UP has completely overshadowed the political scenario in the state of Punjab. Political commentators attribute this to Punjab’s small electoral share compared to UP, but…
By Saeed Naqvi It was a spectacular celebration. The beating of drums, sprinkling of colours, group songs, dancing continued well after dusk. As I watched from my window, a thought crossed my mind: Why had…
By Amulya Ganguli Did the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) desist from naming its Chief Ministerial candidate for UP before the assembly polls because it wanted to spring a nasty, or pleasant, surprise – depending on…
By Amulya Ganguli Narendra Modi’s emergence as the most dominant politician in today’s India, as the Congress’s P. Chidambaram has said, means that he is now the master of all he surveys. Since his victory…
By Veturi Srivatsa New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Few knew his full name because he went by his by-line M.L. Kaul. Those were the days when it was difficult to fit in a full name…