Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, professor of comparative religion and philosophy at Lancaster University, in Prospect magazine “The political apathy of the middle class owes something to the differences in the way 21st-century …
V. RAMAPRASAD in Trichy, Tamil Nadu, forwards a YouTube video for Camlin products, and asks: “Whatever happened to commercials such as these?”
SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI writes: Whenever I see P. Sainath walk, I am reminded of the opening line in the novel Bharatipura by the Jnanapeeth award-winning Kannada novelist U.R. Anantha Murthy. Jagannath, …
The police in Hyderabad, have released the “sketch” of the suspect (above) who they say was behind the bomb blastswhich killed several dozen people at an auditorium. The computer-aided sketch …
Sikhs in the United States have complained of “racial profiling” after a Sikh businessman was made to leave the screening line at an American airport and forced to remove his …
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An indelible image of the Modern Indian Communist Leader is the royal spectacle of “Comred” Prakash Karat and his lovely wife “Comrani” Brinda Karat at Mysore railway station a couple …
NEW DELHI: A television sting operation has bared a lady mathematics teacher allegedly filming her girl students in a “compromising position”. The girls claimed that the teacher, Uma Khurana, was …
The first casualty of terror is trust. In this Indian Express picture, a security guard “checks” children who have come to tie rakhis on Congress president Sonia Gandhi outside her …
RANCHI: Bokaro Deputy Commissioner Praveen Toppo has been issued a show-cause notice after television footage showed him touching the feet of JMM President Shibu Soren when he reached Bokaro yesterday. …
The kerfuffle kicked up by the communists over the Indo-US nuclear deal has seen a flurry of opinion polls. While most respondents seem to think little of the left’s attempts …
JODHPUR: Salman Khan is keeping himself busy in Jodhpur central jail reading the spiritual book God Speaks gifted to him by girlfriend Katrina Kaif. On Sunday, the actor met his …
The messy battle between the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Indian Cricket League (ICL) has entered the messy corridors of the judiciary, with the latter …
PALAGUMMI SAINATH, the rural affairs editor of The Hindu, who was recently named as a recipient of the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award, spoke to Sunil Sethi, the books editor of …
The father of Irshad Ahmed Shaikh, an engineering student who perished in Saturday’s bomb blasts in Hyderabad, vents his grief in Bombay. Photograph by Agence France Presse/ The Telegraph
Saturday’s bomb blasts in Hyderabad, just months after a similar attack in that City and in Bombay, have resulted in our political parties taking their usual positions. The BJP’s Venkaiah …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I was watching the media coverage of Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan which looked like an overdose of Perry Mason and Sherlock Holmes stories. The story was …
The scion of the erstwhile royal family of Mysore Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar extricates himself out of his chariot in the run-up to the elections of the Karnataka State Cricket Association …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Trivialisation and dumbing down of news with the lowest common denominator in mind are becoming the order of the day in Indian media in the name of …
CNN-IBN aired a programme last night on the findings of the Justice Srikrishna report into the Bombay “riots” of January 1993 being put in cold storage despite the mountain of …
In the second Test match of the ongoing series against England at Trent Bridge, Sachin Tendulkar was adjudged lbw by Simon Taufel even as the ball appeared to go well …
Mallika Sarabhai in The Times of India: “The only thing that can make an impact is throwing 80% of those in Parliament into the sea,” said Mallika bluntly. “What ideology …
Although they have been breathing fire and brimstone for a fortnight now, the first signs of a softening of the Left stand on the Indo-US nuclear deal have appeared. CPI(M) …
From Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad: Coimbatore: Fifth Pillar India, an NGO set up to fight corruption, has printed over 200,000 zero-denomination notes that resemble Indian currency and has begun distributing them …
T.V.R SHENOY on rediff.com “It is a pity that Rahul Dravid and Dr Manmohan Singh couldn’t exchange places last week. The prime minister might have gone for the kill at …