How will media react if Emergency is reimposed?
With nearly 60% of India reputedly being under 25 years of age—in other words, with three out of five Indians having been born after 1985—it stands to reason that the …
With nearly 60% of India reputedly being under 25 years of age—in other words, with three out of five Indians having been born after 1985—it stands to reason that the …
Ajmal Kasab, the “killing machine”, has been pronounced guilty in the dastardly siege of Bombay. He is to be hanged and the state prosecutor Ujwal Nikam has held up the …
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: A very powerful chief minister of a very large State goes missing over a very dense forest reputedly infested with very vengeful Maoist elements. …
The BJP’s poor showing in the 2009 elections after all the televised thigh-slapping, moustache-twirling, eyeball-flaring and chest-thumping has seen senior functionaries and factotums of the party wash their khaki cheddis …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: Is the phenomenal electoral success of the BJP in Karnataka the cause for L.K. Advani‘s dream of becoming the country’s Prime Minister to be …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: In a rare show of friendship and camaraderie amidst hectic campaigning, politicians of various hues got together and played a five-overs-a-side tennis ball cricket match in Mysore, …
The poll dates clashed with the IPL dates. So, the Indian Premier League became the Non-Resident Indian Premier League. But, since cricket is religion, what if the IPL had been …
KONDAVEETI DONGA writes from Cyberabad (with tongue firmly in cheek): Any dongamama who masterminds a scam and other such adventures to look good in the eyes of the world knows …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: That Karnataka is rapidly sliding up the totempole of corruption is no more a surprise to anybody who follows the raids conducted by Lok Ayukta Santosh Hegde …
Each time they open their mouth, Indian politicians try to show how much they are in contact with the aam admi and aam aurat. On election tours, they hop off …
Four days to go, and there is still no clarity on which way the trust-vote will go. At least not on TV. The 9’ o clock news contradicts the 8 …
They do things differently at Redmond. VINAYA HEGDE forwards a much-watched but always watchable YouTube video of what would have happened had Bill G‘s people had packaged the iPod. Also …
SHRINIDHI HANDE writes from Madras: It may sound absurd, of course. But I see great benefit to the BJP if it chooses to suppress its political rivalry with the Congress …
Mukul Kesavan in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “The controversy over Tibet is a controversy about pluralism. The main allegations against China — that it has tried to alter the demographic balance …
So you hated drawing and painting classes in school? U.B. VASUDEV in Tampa, Florida, forwards a YouTube video that provides full and final proof that others members of the animal …
India’s decision in 1958 to provide refuge to Tibetans fleeing their country is seen as one of the biggest humanitarian acts any country could have made. Fifty years ago, when …
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: Deve Gowda’s flip flops, the CPM’s hypocrisy, the squabbling and snivelling of the Sangh Parivar, the likes of Arjun Singh and the rest of his …
Chandramohan, the Baroda art student in the eye of a storm for “insulting” gods and goddesses has been let off on bail today after five nights in the cooler. But …
It is considered insular (and selfish and alarmist) to always look inwards at each and every event in the world, and wonder what if it happened to you or yours. …