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Our mediawallahs do a superb job in sensationalizing worthless news items. Sadly, the important and relevant pieces of news which definitely have an impact on us and our nation are relegated ...

Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar is an oft-mocked man these days. Especially since the man he derided as a Chaiwallah, ended up becoming the PM. Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar is an IFS ...

In high school, most of my idea of war was from the history books and cinema. And then of course there were townsfolk who had seen both the war with China ...

The term dictatorship is freely used these days in the national political discourse. Rahul Gandhi and his family feel that Narendra Modi is a tyrant who wants to subvert India's democracy. Arvind ...

In 1947, an English lawyer who had never been to India and probably knew nothing of its history, geography and people, drew a line on a map of the Indian subcontinent ...

In 1979, as Afghanistan was being trampled under Soviet boots, the might of the Capitalist West united under the leadership of US to turn Afghanistan into the Soviet Union's Vietnam. With every passing ...

Does anyone remember Shenaz Treasurywala?   Think…think harder…Okay stop trying. Let me sum her up for you. She was one of those attractive faces in Bollywood who came, who saw and ...

Indian politics is considered not only overpopulated in terms of parties but also diverse in terms of magnitude.The history of the Indian civilization has always obscured the geography of the sub ...

I was recently talking with friends about the weirdness of Lefties, as I so often do. They really are a weird, incomprehensible bunch. In this instance, though, it was to do ...

Indian Army shares a very emotional bond with the Indian populace. We sing the praises of them as our heroes. Government may or may not have our reverences, but the army ...

Mao Zedong was a fêted activist. He co-founded Student Associations, strengthened trade unions and advocated the need for a "Great Union of the Popular Masses". He led communist forces in China ...

Reporter: Sir, you have completed one year as Prime Minister. Can you please sum up your experience? Modi: When I took office, the civil service was totally demoralized and afraid of ...