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What Rahul Gandhi can learn from Brad Pitt
In Steven Soderbergh‘s Ocean’s Twelve, there is this brief interlude between Linus Caldwell and Rusty Ryan (played by Brad Pitt) at the railway station: Linus: Hey, can I ask you …
The day Ford said Tata to Jaguar and Land Rover
David Kiley asks in Der Spiegel: “Could Winston Churchill, or even the current Queen of England, have imagined a half-century ago that a pair of Britain’s proudest industrial icons would …
Manmohan Singh versus Lal Krishna Advani?
Harish Khare, The Hindu‘s deputy editor based in Delhi, has termed Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar‘s suggestion that the ruling United Progressive Alliance should contest the next general election together …
Is online matchmaking becoming a bit of a scam?
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: At the dawn of the year of the lord 2008, Arvind Swaminathan collated a few news items to show how Information Technology whizkids in …
We live in 21st century. Our minds are in 16th.
Diptosh Majumdar, the national political editor of CNN-IBN, on the rape and murder of British tourist Scarlett Keeling in Goa: “Keeling’s death nails a great lie that we try to …