Rahul does not like backseat driving: Jairam Ramesh

Rahul Gandhi does not like backseat driving or asserting his authority and his greatest value going forward will be to play the role of an “ideological compass” for the Congress, senior......

AFSPA: 'A symbol of oppression, an object of hate'

The Supreme Court found enough grounds to order a CBI probe into 1,528 extra-judicial killings in Manipur between 2000 and 2012.Jyoti Punwani reports. IMAGE: Nagaland Minister for Health and......

Why Modi-Shah failed to convince the farmers

In politics, if your objective is only winning elections, just Chanakya neeti might do.For governance you need both, Chanakya neeti and Ram Rajya.You can neither beat up the farmers into......

In Ahmed Patel, Cong loses its key strategist, troubleshooter

Ahmed Patel was the Congress's man for all seasons and every reason, the quintessential backroom strategist who maintained a studied low profile but held a steel-grip over the party's affairs as he......

Where Are Business Leaders To Power The India Story?

What do we need more of? Leaders who dominate global institutions or local leaders with a 'Make-in-India' mindset? Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com A couple of weeks ago, the news about......

Modi Sarkar Isn't Allergic to Privatisation

But use of that word -- privatisation -- is not encouraged.This seems to be a classic case of reforms through subtle signals, observes A K Bhattacharya. Illustrtion: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com  ......

Time to END Bank Nationalisation

Nationalisation has served its purpose.It's time to move ahead, keeping majority ownership of the government in a few banks to serve the people, argues Tamal Bandyopadhyay. Illustration: Uttam......

Yogi Deveshwar: The Risk Taker

During his time as executive chairman, the company's net revenues grew 17-fold to Rs 42,777 crore and profit after tax nearly 40 times to Rs 10,289 crore.Total shareholder returns grew at a......

'When do dreams come true?'

'If you sit collar turned up and tell yourself, you are great, you will never evolve as an actor.' IMAGE: Raghubir Yadav in Panchayat. After more than three decades in the industry, the......

Hamid, Bhonsle, Blinded by the Light at IFFSA

Firdaus Ali checks out the line-up at the International Film Festival of South Asia in Toronto. IMAGE: Rasika Dugal in Hamid. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a moving picture is worth a......

Is Nawazuddin's kiss' n' tell defensible?

The answer to the question would be: More or less, feels Sunil Sethi. IMAGE: Nawazuddin Siddiqui's memoir, An Ordinary Life, has been withdrawn after the controversy it generated. The......

Peter Nicol to coach Indian squash players

Former squash world number one Peter Nicol started a three-day coaching clinic in Mumbai on Tuesday in a bid to take the physically demanding sport in India to a higher level. The Aberdeen-born......