Why everyone says the route to Delhi is through Uttar Pradesh? Perhaps the state resembles the character of entire India in one state. In this state seeking Muslim votes is a secular activity,...

Ups and downs are parts of life. Though they are normally not predictable, one can shape future by persisting with the action plan. Many have voiced negative opinions on the ability of Prashant...

Well, as Narendra Modi didn't delve into foreign affairs, as expected on his yearend speech, let me do it for him. Of course, he needed to have an image of an international statesman...

Given there is no expiry date for the career of a politician, people expect to be in control of whatever they control, till their last breath. Only few wise ones could resist the...

Forget Trump, perhaps I don’t believe any White Man! John Nixon, former CIA official who interrogated Saddam Hussain feels the now long dead Iraqi ruler should have been left to rule the now...

Latest diktat from the Government on old currency notes is in the form of a concession to political entities. Government has declared that political parties will not be investigated for depositing old currency...

When I dialed the gas agency to book a refill, I was forced to listen to one of Narendra Modi’s speeches. It was on how electronic payments could be made even without smart...

We all may still be remembering the story of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa about taking a week before advising a boy on not eating much sweets. He tried to control his own sweet tooth, before...

Mahatma Gandhi thought “All English-knowing men have enslaved India”, and said in 1918 “Unless Hindi was given national status, all talk of Swarajya was useless”. He established Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha, for...

TIME has an annual marketing event during which they select 'Person of the Year'. And, the person gets selected by editors of the magazine and not by vote. If popular votes are not...

Cho Ramaswamy, veteran journalist, writer, actor, political leader(?) and philosopher had died in Apollo Hospital, a day after his (sort of) protégé Jayalalitha died in the same hospital. Who was Cho? When the...

It takes a female to understand another. And an exploited one can understand the situation better. Perhaps, that was the reason why only Jayalalitha could come up with the ‘Thottil Kuzhandhai” or “Cradle...