By Vikas Datta Title: The Way of the Strangers – Encounters with the Islamic State; Author: Graeme Wood; Publisher: Penguin Random House; Pages: 352; Price: Rs 499 It is very easy to dismiss terrorists, especially…
By Sanjoy K Roy In 1999, as part of a British Council showcase programme, I travelled to the Edinburgh Festival and that set in motion the idea of creating platforms for Indian contemporary and classical…
By Amit Kapoor & Manisha Kapoor This year — the year before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections — was to witness elections in a total of eight states. Three are already done, and it will…
By Vikas Datta It is the great, not necessarily correct, but disruptive ideas about human nature and the world that evoke the most fervent reactions, both for and against. Some of the quite famous of…
By Vikas Datta A huge statue of Karl Marx was unveiled in his birthplace in the German city of Trier to mark his 200th birth anniversary on May 5 — and it was donated by…
By Shashi Tharoor For a decade and a half now I’ve been a tireless advocate of India’s soft power, arguing that in the information age, it is not the side with the bigger army that…
By Saeed Naqvi It was what a film director would have described as a perfect take. “You are a beginner,” he said, grinding his teeth in simulated anger. “These are your days to learn.” A…
By Amulya Ganguli Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao is among the more active opposition leaders at the national level who are trying to form an alliance against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Sonia Gandhi,…
By Vidyun Singh The cities of Bombay (Mumbai), Madras (Chennai) and Calcutta (Kolkata) had deep cultural roots and urbanised commerce and industry even during the colonial period, possibly because a diversified and robust economy is…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) There has been, in recent times, a great churning in what can be called India’s “cultural space”. Public institutions, hitherto custodians of all things “cultural”, have been…
By Sanjiv Kataria Time was when, if you aspired to study abroad, you wouldn’t look beyond the US and the United Kingdom with their prestigious colleges and great institutions of higher learning, many of them…
By Taponeel Mukherjee Global infrastructure investors would have taken note of news that the Airports Authority of India may privatise some of its profitable airports. Airport infrastructure in India has the potential to yield significant…
By C. Uday Bhaskar At the recently concluded Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London, the joint communique focused on the challenges of evolving sustainable development policies for almost 2.5 billion citizens who are…
By Vikas Datta Title: If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?; Author: Alan Alda; Publisher: Random House; Pages: 240; Price: Rs 699 Communication is the basis of human relationships and…
Amit Kapoor By all estimates, the Indian economy has entered a phase of recovery. After a period of subdued growth that was marred by a spate of disruptions, India has regained the fastest-growing major economy…
By Vinod Behl Two years after the Centre notified the Real Estate Regulation and Development Act (RERA) of 2016 to empower and protect property consumers and make property transactions fair and transparent by regulating the…
By Rajendra Shende For the first time, the world is experiencing ice-breaking events that are not attributable to global warming. But they are definitely related to warming of another kind. There has been a sudden…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) In the ever-evolving world of smartphones, a few mobile handset makers have been tempted to launch two or even multiple brands in order to gain a larger…
By Vikas Datta Title: Fascism: A Warning; Author: Madeleine Albright; Publisher: William Collins; Pages: 304; Price: Rs 699 If not the outcome of the Second World War, the Berlin Wall’s fall seemed to pave the…
By Shantanu Guha Ray Indigo President Aditya Ghoshs final hours played out in a room in Gurgaon, a city of seven golf courses surrounded by apartment towers sprouting like concrete weeds. In aviation circles, many…