Politics

With elections in Bihar around the corner, the national political scene has come to life. The stakes for this edition...

Drama Queen, the song starring Sidharth Malhotra and Parineeti Chopra in the movie Hasee to Phasee was a hit with...

The forecasts for this year’s monsoons may be gloomy, but it will be sensible to assume that the forthcoming monsoon...

A historical primer: The year 1975 saw the imposition of Emergency, a highly unpopular decision of the then Congress Govt....

Lalu's interview in HT today makes one feel that India is perhaps a lost idea whose time is up. There is...

Ever since US decided that the Shah of Iran was the right ruler for Iran, US has been wrong about...

Our constitution was written with the highest possible ideals. It provides for equality of citizens before law. It guarantees them liberty,...

In school when we used to take the India pledge and proudly say – “India is my country and all...

In 1947, an English lawyer who had never been to India and probably knew nothing of its history, geography and...

I respect a lot of people for their entrepreneurial talents. Kamal R Khan and Anna Hazare would be my two...

History belongs to the victors, they say. To put it even better, History belongs to the rulers. Those who rule,...

Is the anger of the Indian middle class directly proportional to the hypocrisy of the intelligentsia? And every morning as...