By Amit Kapoor The Indian stock markets seem to be on a steroid-infused dream run. Both the National Stock Exchange’s Nifty-50 and the Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex have surged to record highs almost every day…
By Vikas Datta Termed the “Tragedy Queen” of Bollywood for her immortal, iconic portrayals of a varied gamut of wronged, silent and long-suffering but dignified Indian women from passed-over love interests to neglected wives, Meena…
By Sanu George Ever since the arrest of superstar Dileep, the big fat egos of those in the Malayalam film industry, be it in the actor’s body or other organisations, have been pricked badly, leaving…
Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd) A “security dilemma” in international relations represents a situation in which accretion of power — military and economic — by a state generates fear amongst its rivals, leading to tensions, a…
By Vikas Datta The last place possibly expected to yield humour is history. For most of us, it was a dreary, most colourless school subject. But today it a serious business — a fiercely-contested battlefield…
By Amulya Ganguli Nitish Kumar may have won the trust vote in the Bihar legislature, but he is now weaker than what he was during his earlier stint as the Chief Minister. At that time,…
By Arnab N. Sengupta The depressing drumbeat of bad news from Jammu and Kashmir and Bhutan’s Doklam plateau may or may not be a consequence of the policies or actions of Narendra Modi’s government. Yet…
By A Fauji Wife There has been much mud-slinging after news of a senior army officer’s wife humiliating a junior officer’s wife in public appeared in a national daily. Like it’s the trend these days,…
By Amulya Ganguli Ram Nath Kovind’s first speech as President was in keeping with his low-key personality. He said all the right things about his illustrious predecessors, including Pranab Mukherjee, and also about Indian poverty…
By Amit Kapoor Indian household savings patterns have been witnessing some massive structural shifts of late. Households in India have historically been quite risk-averse and wary of investing their savings into risky assets. A pursuit…
By Vikas Datta In any literary tradition, the works of even its less famous or forgotten figures are liable to crop up at some unexpected place. As in Hindi film songs, with which Urdu poetry…
By Joydeep Gupta The disagreement between the US and the other 19 countries at the recent G20 summit at Hamburg has put a question mark over the sustainability of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the…
By Saeed Naqvi Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s fate hangs in the balance on unexplained finances, most specifically for apartments he acquired on London’s most expensive stretch, Park Lane, facing Hyde Park. I visited the…
By Amulya Ganguli Only the naive will believe that the elevation of a Dalit, Ramnath Kovind, as the President is of seminal importance either for the community or for the party which chose him. For…
By Vivek Gupta New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Gifting has always been a part of Indian tradition and culture; a way to express love, gratitude, appreciation and good wishes. In the past decade, rising income…
By Tim Buckley A recent Morgan Stanley report has downgraded the Indian utilities industry. It highlighted that renewable energy is becoming so cheap that thermal power, mostly coal, is uncompetitive. This is a highly significant…
By Amit Kapoor Last week Antarctica shed a trillion-ton iceberg from the Larsen C ice shelf that had been tethered precariously at the edge for years. The chunk of ice is approximately four times the…
By Vikas Datta Bullets flying as gunmen confront each other in the streets or saloons, cowboys lassoing cattle on sprawling ranches across a starkly beautiful panorama, wagon-borne pioneers riding across boundless plains with a worried…
By Arun Kumar Washington, July 15 (IANS) When Narendra Modi came calling, Donald Trump “conspired” with his “true friend” from India to keep the big Russian bear at bay. But no such luck for POTUS…
By Saeed Naqvi On the eve of the May 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections, Arun Jaitley shared his campaign experiences with some editors. When he attacked Mamata Bannerjee and the Left-Congress front in equal measure,…