Special Report

Hanging On Tenterhooks

If BJP is to be believed, the rhetoric of "Congress Mukt Bharat” is no more a plain taunt now. By the time the Congress ......

This Far, No Farther !

There is no doubt about the fact that the BJP at present is feeling on top of the world after its remarkable victory in Assam, after which the saffron outfit is .......

The Old Men in The Sea

The pedigree of a doctor is immaterial when it comes to treatment of a patient. Equally useless is to look for the pedigree of his forefathers......

The Activist writer's Centenarian wish

Mahasweta Devi is no more. The news comes as a shock because in spite of being wheelchair bound, the severely diabetic octogenarian........

"Life is stronger than death because life is still there"

I would like to know more about your idea of a film and the "lie". Let’s start with Close-up in which a man fabricates a lie out of .......

Tryst

"I never saw such resentment against a popular government in such a short time"

The newly elected government has increased VAT and this has drawn widespread protests. Several organisations have .......

Rear Window

Haqqanization of Taliban

In a recent audio message, the deputy chief of the Afghan Taliban Sirajuddin Haqqani, said that the insurgent group was open for negotiations provided......

Column

Global Degeneration

Sometime ago, I attended an online lecture of Prof Jeffery D Sachs on sustainable development, where he said that three hundred years ago, the world was the most

Why the RSS opposes

The relationship between the Rashtriya Swayam-sevak Sangh, unarguably the largest voluntary organization in the world

A House Divided

It is a different thing that the iron hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party chief Amit Shah are busy creating.......

History Mail

Hunter S. Thompson to his Friend

The inimitable Hunter S. Thompson was just 20 years of age and still in the U.S. Air Force when, in April of 1958, he .........

Interview

"Rao was the kind of Hindu who was publicly secular"

Why did you choose Narasimha Rao as your focus? Is it because he was undermined by the Congress......

Book Review

Of Humans and Humanity

Science books for general readers is probably the most difficult genre that there is. Most writers tend to either sound too academic or too .....

An Enigma Revealed

Who was Narasimha Rao? For party grown sycophants, or for those belonging to the Congress or subscribing to its ideology, ......

King of The World

CASSIUS CLAY entered the ring in Miami Beach wearing a short white robe, "The Lip” stitched on the back. He was beautiful again. He was fast, sleek, and twenty-two......