Cover Story
Never say no
For those hacks keeping track of the tumultuous times that the BJP has been going through, she is fondly known as the mistress of lost causes. In 1998
Sonia vs Modi
When minister of state for food processing Charan Das Mahant recently said he would be willing to sweep the party office in Chhattisgarh if instructed by Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi,
Gestation period
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) boss and former Chief Minister Uttar Pradesh Mayawati is pretty much her own woman. Undaunted, feisty and someone who keeps her cards close to her chest
Honest broker
In her quest for greater glories and setting up an alternative front post-2014 elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee has taken to the social media with a vengeance
Amma's gambit
There are clear indications that Jayalitha Jairaman, feisty chief minister of Tamil Nadu and AIADMK supremo, is ready to form a third front-like alliance,
Of Cabbages and Queens
In the first week of March, 2010, the UPA regime looked unassailable and it looked as if women politicians were on the ascendant
Typos
In the Wake of Doom
"You are very new to this… I don’t know if you can do justice to this subjectâ€
Business
In a race to prove other smartphone makers dumb
Once upon a time, for the Indian consumer, things were quite different. Apple was something the good family doctor asked you to imbibe everyday
Arts
Nishabd Exit
First things first. It would seem like a conveniently blithe assumption to imagine film stars enjoying a more exciting and event-filled life than us common folks
Undercover
The gene is out of the bottle
The US Supreme Court judge Justice Clarence Thomas declared in a landmark judgment on patenting human DNA,
Show some spine, please
India’s Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) hasn’t entirely been consigned into oblivion, even though the cold war is now a distant memory and that chapter has been closed for over two decades now
The highs and the lows
As per a recent research by the International Wine & Spirit Research (IWSR), published by the Economist, "Russians downed nearly 2 billion litres of the stuff [vodka] in 2012,
Life
A glut caught in a rut
The summer releases that Hollywood is unleashing this year tell a collective, and somewhat disturbing, tale. When a ‘movie’ industry moves completely away from ‘cinema’, there is reason to worry.
Rear Window
Don't politicise the song
As an Indian Muslim who caters to the voices of sanity and reason, I hung my head in shame when I heard tht Shafique-ur-Rehman Barq
Column
Africa's Subprime Borrowers
NEW YORK – In recent years, a growing number of African governments have issued Eurobonds, diversifying away from traditional sources of finance such as concessional debt and foreign direct investment.
Far Pavilion
The Spillover Effect
When Hezbollah fighters first started laying out the plan to liberate al-Qusayr with the help of the Syrian Arab Army, they did not see it as a major obstacle.
Book Review
inside the heart of darkness
For 11 years we have visited and revisited the horrific riots that engulfed Gujarat in 2002 after a coach of a train was set ablaze at Godhra station, killing 48 people. Those riots claimed over 2000 Muslim lives,
Heroism wrapped in an enigma
By today’s standards, his exploits with the bat would at best be regarded as average
Movie Review
World War Z
Right from the word go, World War Z propels you into a dark, dreary world where zombies are attacking and infecting everyone around and humanity is pushed into a few safe zones
Raanjhanaa
An unconventional love story that begins in the bylanes of Benaras and ends in the streets of Delhi, Aanand L Rai’s Raanjhanaa is an intense yet lively and humour-filled film that is not without its share of flaws.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
