57 killed as mob torches train in Gujarat (The Hindu) Fifty-seven persons, mostly women and children, were killed and 43 sustained burn injuries when a coach of the Faizabad-Ahmedabad Sabarmati Express carrying `Ram...

Amidst the mounting clamours of NDA coming to power with BJP’s Narendra Modi as its prime minister, I decided to contemplate beyond the obvious (as it seems to most of us).  What if...

“Hare Krishna” He said. I looked up. He was a saffron clad monk. Not the long-beard-ash-smeared kinds but a decent looking monk. He had a nice gentle face with a persistent smile. His...

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I loved the movie “The Wolf of Wall street”. Can’t call it one of Scorsese’s classics but will certainly rate it as one of the better movies that released recently. The true story...

It is a harsh reality that neither Congress nor BJP can form government at the Center without the support of the regional parties. And the problem with regional players is that we have...

He was a smart developer. He teamed up with his smart MBA friend and couple of other IT guys to create a trailblazing product in the e-commerce domain. They planned to launch the...

Those days we used to wait for it. Those days when I was 14 or 15 and coincidently my friends were about the same age, we used to wait for it. Holi and...

Narendra Modi's Meerut rally was important in many ways. Modi was not his original aggressive self. He did attack the state and central government, followed a jibe for jibe approach, cheered up people,...

Eklavya could have been the best archer that the world has ever seen. He could have been better than Drona, Arjuna, Karna or even Bheeshma but Drona didn’t let that happen. Drona is...

If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought, and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore him at our...

Why is Republic day celebrated? On 26th January 1950 the constitution of India came into force and India became a truly sovereign state and a totally republican unit. What is a republic? A...