Election 2024: The Big Fights In Kerala

Kerala's election discourse operates surreptitiously.Its explicit face focuses on important national and local issues. At the same time, it seeks to secure apt communal equations to ensure votes,......

BJP's Complete Distrust Of Federalism

What is to be done to resist the twin thrusts of the BJP's ideology, majoritarian and a strong centripetal instinct against federalism? asks Aakar Patel. IMAGE: Delhi Ministers Saurabh Bharadwaj......

Autopsy confirms Mukhtar Ansari died of heart attack

The post-mortem on gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari confirmed that he died of cardiac arrest, a hospital source said on Friday. IMAGE: Gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari. Photograph: ANI Photo......

Union minister booked for linking TN with Bengaluru blast

The Madurai police on Wednesday booked Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje for "promoting enmity" between different groups, following her claims that people from......

What Led To Paytm's Big Fall

At the heart of Paytm's slide lies the abject failure of its Super App strategy, notes Indrajit Gupta. IMAGE: Vijay Shekhar Sharma. Photograph: ANI Photo For more than three weeks now, the......

Bollywood's Famous Lost And Found Tales

Dramas woven around the theme of lost and found is a iconic trope in Hindi cinema. From melodrama to mockery (remember Amar and Prem's phony separated-at-Kumbh Mela reunion in a gag of Andaz Apna......

'Ritz looked fine! Absolutely fine!'

'He did some great work and people remember him from so many things, but he should have got some stronger parts.' Lillete Dubey still can't get over the shock of losing her old friend Ritz, as she......

Fighter: Blood On The Dance Floor

Siddharth Anand's artistry bespeaks an upbringing filled with GI Joes, plastic combat boots and plastic bayonets, fake punching noises and fake sounds of gunshots, rudely interrupted by an adult......

Pictures That Best Capture 2023's Hindi Cinema

We read about the magic of movies and feel it all the time. At times, it appears full scale as if designed for wows and whistles, at times it's quiet yet achingly true in its depiction. Often......

Set for emotional homecoming, can Rishabh Pant & Co. overcome Sunrisers test?

IMAGE: All eyes will be on home boy Rishabh Pant as he makes an emotional comeback. Photograph: BCCI He walked on crutches in one of his first public appearances at Feroz Shah Kotla last year, but......

Candidates chess: Gukesh holds Caruana; Gujrathi falters again

Photograph: Kind Courtesy Michal Walusza/FIDE Grandmaster D Gukesh did well to hold top-seeded American Fabiano Caruana to a draw but Vidit Gujrathi suffered another defeat at the hands of Ian......

Indian football hits new low with shock loss to Afghanistan

IMAGE: Afghanistan's players celebrate winning their FIFA World Cup Qualifier match against India in Guwahati on Tuesday. Photographs: ANI Indian football hit a new low with a gut-wrenching 1-2......

'Ashwin's body was used like a dart board by Hazlewood and Cummins'

As Ravichandran Ashwin achieved the milestone 100th Test in Mohali, everyone had their lists of his best bowling feats. But Ashwin's finest cricketing moment was probably when he and Hanuma Vihari......

IPL 2024: Kohli's 16-year itch, MSD - the evergreen captain, Pant's return, Rohit's bleeding heart & the Cup

IMAGE: Four different narratives will play out in the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League. Photograph: BCCI The never-ending speculation surrounding Mahendra Singh Dhoni's retirement,......