Special Report

'There is a new zeal in the party'

A number of new faces in Jaipur were those who had won elections against all odds and Rahul Gandhi has acknowledged it as much. For 2014, only those who fit the bill will be given tickets.

Congress vs Congress

Three weeks ago, with yet another looming political crisis over the resignations of union ministers Pawan Bansal and Ashwini Kumar, an SOS message was sent from 10 Janpath to the Prime Ministers’ Office (PMO) which indicated that Madam Sonia wanted an urgent meeting with the prime minister.

Special Story

Realty trouble

According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Bihar tops the list of states when it comes to property-related crime.

Raipur chaos

"Naxalites have brains which is why the government of India, the Raman Singh government and all of us are unable to do anything" – former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, July 12, 2012.

Typos

Jungle Nights II

I was driving slowly. The twin beams of light scanned the horizon for signs of life. But it was well past 11 in the night and I was driving through fields and forests.

Business

It's a new game!

The private life insurance companies in India have been struggling to achieve profitability in the face of high operating losses primarily on account of distribution and operating models.

Arts

The changing face of 'Maa' in bollywood

Right from the golden age (late 40s, early 50s till the late 80s), the screen mothers were a critical and intrinsic component of most Bollywood movies.

Undercover

Dawn of a new era

In the 1950s, Myanmar (formerly Burma) was considered as one of the strongest economies in South-east Asia.

Talks fail to address the faultlines

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang recent visit to India on Sunday was predictably ho-hum, and ended without any breakthrough that could have helped to resolve the contentious border dispute between the two neighbours.

A whiff of social change

Iran’s social and culture conservatism has for long served as grist to the popular mill of western media consumption.

Life

In memorium: Rituparno Ghosh (1963-2013)

Chokher Bali, Rituparno Ghosh's visually sumptuous Tagore adaptation, was the opening film of a festival in Delhi ten years ago.

Enchanted by India

India was an integral part of the life Hungarian soldier-turned-Indologist Ervin Baktay Gottesmann (June 24, 1890- May 7, 1963).

Rear Window

Morality and precious stones

India, unlike their counterparts in USA or Europe, are ignorant of the origin of the stones that go into making the jewellery.

Far Pavilion

Ottoman Pretensions?

It feels like yesterday when everything looked hunky-dory for Recep Erdogan's Turkey.

Book Review

Book Review: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

There is little doubt that Khaled Hosseini is the most widely read Asian writer of our time amongst both literary geniuses and pulp fiction writers.

Book Review: The Sea of Innocence

A thriller erected on the foundation of shocking incidents yanked out of the newspapers, The Sea of Innocence is Kishwar Desai’s third book in the Simran Singh series.

Movie Review

Movie Review: The Hangover Part III

Good, bad, worst. Those are the words which define each of the films in the series.

Movie Review: Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

Director Ayan Mukherjee's follow up to his wonderful Wake up Sid, seems to do just that : play out the life n' times of a woken-up Sid to a whole new landscape!