When Gandhi-Jinnah First Met

No plaque marks the historic meeting place of the fathers of two nations. And no history textbook tells us about that first meeting and their mutual admiration, common ethos and comradeship,......

Rest in peace, Mushir sahib!

Mohammad Sajjad salutes the memory of Mushirul Hasan -- historian, thinker, academic, institution builder, -- who passed into the ages this week. IMAGE: Professor Mushirul Hasan. Photograph:......

How the Mughals changed India

'It was the Mughals who first established standard units of measurement and maintained offices of meticulous record keepers and auditors, departing from the more haphazard methods of earlier......

Bezwada Wilson, an Indian hero

Between January 1, 2017 and September 18, 2018, one manual scavenger died every five days.He is no caped superhero, but Bezwada Wilson continues to fight the good fight for manual scavengers, says......

An Indian tribute: Paul Samuelson, Guru

Paul A Samuelson, one of the world's greatest economists, passed into the ages on Sunday, December 13. Janata Party President and economist Dr Subramanian Swamy, a student of Professor Samuelson,......

PCs to decipher all Indian languages soon

By the end of September this year, the Department of Information Technology will have readied software tools and fonts which can help personal computers and websites decipher content in the......

Of India, reforms and skewed governance

'Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's just the opposite'-- John Kenneth Galbraith It was the annual meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry's nothern region in Delhi.......

A future with Hindi in English script?

Are we likely to see a future India where newspapers, magazines and literature in Hindi are printed using the English script, instead of the current Devnagiri? Similarly, will Tamil, Telugu, and......

'Our intention was never to shock'

'There are people who loved the show and people who have been shocked by it.' IMAGE: Venkatesh and Rana Daggubati in Rana Naidu. Suparn Verma wears many hats. He is a director, screenwriter and......

Shyam Benegal: The Girish Karnad I Knew

'He had a continuing interest in life, people, and the society in which he lived,' remembers Shyam Benegal, who collaborated with the polyglot playwright and actor through the 1970s and remained......

'My destiny was to write about the game'

'That has always been my ambition -- to take the reader behind the scenes, to the places he was not allowed to visit, but which I had the privilege of entering.'Haresh Pandya remembers Ted Corbett,......

Readers on where India has gone wrong

M KRISHNANAND:Dear SirI appreciate your efforts in getting valuable feedback from people on the reasons for India's poor form in ODIs and how we can improve it . Now that the Pakistan series is......