By Vikas Datta Title: Hindutva or Hind Swaraj; Author: U.R. Ananthamurthy (translated by Keerti Ramachandra and Vivek Shanbhag); Publisher: Harper Perennial; Pages: 144; Price: Rs 350 Every country and society may have differing narratives of…
By Abhishek Waghmare It has as many people as Punjab, and its people are three times poorer. But Narendra Modi became the first prime minister to visit Mozambique in 34 years because the impoverished South…
By Ankit Sinha The massive popularity of electronic dance music (EDM) in India has paved the way for a bevy of music producers who are creating groovy, rhymthic and bass-laden tunes to win over fans….
By Vatsal Srivastava Move over Brexit. The big talk in the financial markets right now is a meeting between former US Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his key economic…
By Sanjeev Srivastava Dear Shah Faesal, I begin with a disclaimer. I am an admirer of yours. I admire your clarity of thoughts and the ease and eloquence with which you express them. You had…
By Moushumi Mohanty Honda began working on distancing itself from heavy rare earth metal usage in motors about a decade ago — a journey that reached a significant milestone this week. The automaker, along with…
By Vikas Datta Occurrence of the unexpected and the unlikely doesn’t only work for literary genres like horror, and mystery, let alone fantasy and science fiction, but comedy too. Though much of comedy’s effect is…
By Devanik Saha With a wound that refuses to heal on her shoulder, nine-month-old Ruksana lives with her parents – and hundreds of others patients from across India – on the footpath outside the Metro…
By Amulya Ganguli India would have faced far greater criticism of its handling of the outbreak in Kashmir if the international scene was calmer. With the US embroiled in its own racial militancy, France reeling…
By Biswajit Choudhury It’s been almost a week since the Euro 2016 final, but the hangover continues — rather strange because this didn’t happen after the IPL, which was a less taxing tournament to watch….
By Shreya Deb If a landmark new Rajasthan law on providing clear property deeds to millions succeeds, it could be a model for other states, transform property markets and unclog the countrys courts – if…
By Chaitanya Mallapur The worlds fastest-growing economy, on course to become the worlds third largest by 2030 with a gross domestic product (GDP) of $7.3 trillion, India continues to trail smaller South Asian neighbours -…
By Sheikh Qayoom Srinagar, July 14 (IANS) Has the death of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani acted only as the trigger to set off the kind of widespread violence Kashmir hasn’t seen for many years? If…
By Anil K. Rajvanshi In the recent past a theft of a camera, an iPod and cash took place in my younger daughter’s house in rural Maharashtra. The finger of suspicion fell on a Class…
By Raouf Rasool For the past few days, Kashmir has faced renewed turmoil, with ordinary people at the receiving end. And once again the elected representatives in the state have let their people down. At…
By Charu Bahri As Prakash Javadekar takes charge of a ministry that appeared to impede the Prime Ministers desire to see world-class Indian universities, step one could be to get his ministrys first-ever national ranking…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) If you are a frequent business traveller and spend most of your time away from the safe internet boundaries of your office or home, be warned. Public…
By Vikas Datta Title: Fifty Great War Films; Author: Tim Newark; Publisher: Osprey Publishing/Bloomsbury; Pages: 208; Price: Rs 599 Do you know which war film earned the ire of Winston Churchill, who felt it cariacatured…
By Max Martin The monsoon has currently dissipated intense heat across Indias growing cities, but temperatures are rising and will continue to climb because of the way urban areas are expanding. With trees, lakes and…
By Amit Kapoor Social development and environmental concerns are often not accorded the attention they deserve in public policy discourse. The reason for this is that they are often seen in direct conflict with economic…