By Amulya Ganguli Did the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) desist from naming its Chief Ministerial candidate for UP before the assembly polls because it wanted to spring a nasty, or pleasant, surprise – depending on…
By Amulya Ganguli Narendra Modi’s emergence as the most dominant politician in today’s India, as the Congress’s P. Chidambaram has said, means that he is now the master of all he surveys. Since his victory…
By Veturi Srivatsa New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Few knew his full name because he went by his by-line M.L. Kaul. Those were the days when it was difficult to fit in a full name…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) A day after the BJPs thumping victory in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, a little-known progressive Kannada writer became the victim of an ink attack in Davangere town…
By Amit Kapoor The just-concluded assembly elections and the unparalleled performance of the BJP have been the highlight of the weekend. The elections, happening mid-way of the partys term at the Centre and coming immediately…
By Vikas Datta Does only economic status determine social class, or do other determinants — speech patterns, apparel, mannerisms and the like — play a part? And if so, will changing them mean upward –…
By Saurabh Katkurwar and Anurag Dey New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Poor performance in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections may have shut the doors on the future prospects of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) for…
By Bhanupriya Rao Melamarungoor, Sivagangai district (Tamil Nadu): Mazharkodi Dhanasekar has a radiant smile and is keen to talk about her achievements, which, as it emerges, are considerable: Building 650 toilets and making her panchayat…
By Arun Kumar Washington, March 11 (IANS) The 45th tenant of the White House was livid. His newly minted Attorney General’s failure to disclose a couple of meetings with Moscow’s envoy had raised new questions…
By Bhanupriya Rao Sittilinghi, Dharmapuri district (Tamil Nadu): Nestled in a sylvan valley in northwestern Tamil Nadu and surrounded by forests, the village council, or panchayat, of Sittilinghi struggled to bring to attention the infirmities…
By Bhanupriya Rao Thalaiyuthu panchayat, Tirunelveli district (Tamil Nadu): P. Krishnaveni remembers the night of 13 June, 2011, clear as day. Barely 200 m from her home of 15 years, in front of a local…
By Amit Kapoor The Indian economy has been witnessing a flux of good news lately. The GDP growth for the October-December quarter stood at seven per cent, beating all expectations of the negative impact of…
By Vikas Datta Confusingly complicated family relations, logical puzzles for intellectual betterment, problem-solving by, and through, imagination, the importance of choices, and the spinning on a basic tale through a number of episodes have a…
By Veturi Srivatsa Like a good accountant, Vinod Rai has said something the Rajendra Mal Lodha Committee should have in the first place instead of turning the entire cricket structure upside down. Rai, the Comptroller…
By Manisha Chachra Ridhima Chopra, 25, once with a NGO in New Delhi is among the growing number of Indian women encouraged to complain — without an end-result — about harassment at work by the…
By Saeed Naqvi The post-9/11 global war on terror was officially launched with attacks on Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. It was exactly on that date that Narendra Modi was sworn in as Gujarat Chief…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) After arriving in India in January last year, Chinese internet and technology conglomerate LeEco fast became the “true disrupter” in the evolving Indian smartphone market with its…
By Saptak Ghosh Riding on the wave of the record low solar tariff, of Rs 2.97/kWh, in the 750 MW Rewa Solar Park project in Madhya Pradesh, the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs approved increasing…
By Amit Kapoor It is not often that the world finds itself at the cusp of a revolution, and an industrial one is even more uncommon. India missed the bus on the first major industrial…
By Prathamesh Mulye Despite the governments efforts to attract investment under its Make in India campaign, sales of manufactured goods fell 3.7 per cent during 2015-16 — the first decline in seven years –s parking…