Category: Commentary

The ignored, inconvenient truth about the Islamic State (Book Review)

By Vikas Datta Title: The Way of the Strangers - Encounters with the Islamic State; Author: Graeme Wood; Publisher: Penguin…

6 years ago

Creating international platforms for Indian arts

By Sanjoy K Roy In 1999, as part of a British Council showcase programme, I travelled to the Edinburgh Festival…

6 years ago

Probit regression model can almost accurately predict election outcomes

By Amit Kapoor & Manisha Kapoor This year -- the year before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections -- was to…

6 years ago

Adherence, denunciation and inspiration: Freud and his legacy

By Vikas Datta It is the great, not necessarily correct, but disruptive ideas about human nature and the world that…

6 years ago

Marx: A discredited theorist or a far-sighted prophet?

By Vikas Datta A huge statue of Karl Marx was unveiled in his birthplace in the German city of Trier…

6 years ago

Global perception of India has taken a beating

By Shashi Tharoor For a decade and a half now I've been a tireless advocate of India's soft power, arguing…

6 years ago

Winners may be losers in Karnataka’s Catch 22 endgame

By Saeed Naqvi It was what a film director would have described as a perfect take. "You are a beginner,"…

6 years ago

Opposition unity: Not easy to achieve

By Amulya Ganguli Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao is among the more active opposition leaders at the national level…

6 years ago

India changed in the 1990s and the cultural milieu changed with it

By Vidyun Singh The cities of Bombay (Mumbai), Madras (Chennai) and Calcutta (Kolkata) had deep cultural roots and urbanised commerce…

7 years ago

A culture revolution is sweeping through urban India

By Saket Suman New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) There has been, in recent times, a great churning in what can…

7 years ago

Focus on employability, not just academics in choosing foreign varsity:

By Sanjiv Kataria Time was when, if you aspired to study abroad, you wouldn't look beyond the US and the…

7 years ago

Business model is key for investing in airports

By Taponeel Mukherjee Global infrastructure investors would have taken note of news that the Airports Authority of India may privatise…

7 years ago

India must save itself from the plastic peril

By C. Uday Bhaskar At the recently concluded Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London, the joint communique focused…

7 years ago

Alan Alda’s method to relearning the key of successful communication (Book Review)

By Vikas Datta Title: If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?; Author: Alan Alda; Publisher:…

7 years ago

Is the economy out of the woods yet?

Amit Kapoor By all estimates, the Indian economy has entered a phase of recovery. After a period of subdued growth…

7 years ago

One year of RERA: Tardy implementation restricts gains

By Vinod Behl Two years after the Centre notified the Real Estate Regulation and Development Act (RERA) of 2016 to…

7 years ago

And now, days of disruptive diplomacy

By Rajendra Shende For the first time, the world is experiencing ice-breaking events that are not attributable to global warming.…

7 years ago

Why smartphone dual-branding won’t work in India

By Nishant Arora New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) In the ever-evolving world of smartphones, a few mobile handset makers have…

7 years ago

Fascism: Recognising the beast and what it feeds on (Book Review)

By Vikas Datta Title: Fascism: A Warning; Author: Madeleine Albright; Publisher: William Collins; Pages: 304; Price: Rs 699 If not…

7 years ago

Indigo’s Aditya Ghosh, and his ‘Before Time Departure’

By Shantanu Guha Ray Indigo President Aditya Ghoshs final hours played out in a room in Gurgaon, a city of…

7 years ago



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