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Is India Distancing Itself From Israel?

India's voting pattern in the United Nations with regard to the Israel-Palestine conflict is lately marked by a calibrated distancing from Israel, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE:......

Dilli Abhi Door Ast

Regional films may have prevailed over the country, but regional leaders still have far mountains to climb to reach Delhi, asserts Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: Mulayam Singh Yadav, then national......

Salman moves HC against Panvel neighbour, calls his posts communally provocative

Bollywood actor Salman Khan on Friday told the Bombay high court that the videos uploaded about him on social media by his Panvel farmhouse neighbour Ketan Kakkad were not only defamatory in......

Ladakh Standoff: Return To Status Quo Unlikely, But...

Through the past 18-month period, peace has prevailed in the disputed border regions, which was immensely helpful in the difficult situation that the country was passing through, observes......

Why did Sri Lanka snub US?

Any form of entanglement with India or the US on the strategic plane will be anathema to Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa rulers, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya......

Modi's Economic Record: No 'disaster' nor anticipated success

Three-quarters into the 10 years that Mr Modi had sought for transforming India, the 'output' numbers look impressive, but the key 'outcome' numbers don't show up much, if at all, observes T N......

India must stop being the West's digital colony

'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,'......

India's exchange rate policies are flawed

If net forex outflows turn out to be relatively high in the next few years, the rupee could depreciate beyond Rs 80 to a dollar by 2022.The causal reasons could, for example, include unmet......

Our Modiji is the master of illusion

'Our first great challenge is to create 12 million new jobs each year, to make the demographic dividend an economic dividend.''We are nowhere near that,' points out Mohan Guruswamy. IMAGE: Prime......

This word-class expressway is a recipe for potential disaster

The reason for the EPE’s relatively low volume of traffic may lie in the lack of adequate safety measures, especially after sundown. Barring intermittent patches, the highway has no street......

Zara Hatke Zara Bachke Review: Wah Vicky! Wah Sara!

Not so hatke after all, but no reason to stay bachke either, notes Sukanya Verma. Innocent lies, trivial conflicts and copious confusion led to much mirth in Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu......

10 Classic Malayalam Films On OTT

There's a peevish quality to all the films on this list, which is fitting, because peevishness is the defining characteristic of most Malayalis. These films, even at their saddest, darkest and......

Why Decoupled Just Doesn't Work

The failure of Decoupled is that, as it deals almost solely in 'snapshots of insight', it fails to showcase how life flows, how the world goes round, how things unfold, feels Rohit Sathish Nair.......

Mohanlal would be perfect as Georgekutty.. 25 years ago

The curse of stardom, especially in a country like India -- which wants its Gods to be tidy and punctilious -- is that stardom forces you to stop exploring the frozen sea inside you, and instead......

Why Prem Granth deserved better

Rajiv Kapoor was the true inheritor of his father Raj Kapoor's mantle, especially in the use of music and songs, feels Subhash K Jha. Prem Granth (1996), the only film that Rajiv Kapoor directed,......

'Repeat offenders' Australia face scorn over ball-tampering shame

‘Just from the outside, it looks like Australia have started a lot of fights and are moaning when someone comes back’ IMAGE: A fan present on Day 4 of the 3rd Sunfoil Test match......

Indian cricket's superstar culture will continue to thrive

'Indian cricket, it seems, pays overwhelming obeisance to a vapid, old adage: The more it changes, the more it remains the same,' says Dhruv Munjal. IMAGE: India Captain Virat Kohli, Cricket......

Ashwin: On his way to becoming the greatest

What makes Ravichandran Ashwin the world's premier Test spinner?Dhruv Munjal, T E Narasimhan and Gireesh Babu find out. IMAGE: Another wicket for Ravichandran Ashwin, this time it is his former......

Olympic machismo: The tale the medals tell

I am always embarrassed by India's wretched showing in the Olympics, which is a metaphor for the two things that haunt India -- lack of a strategic intent, and lack of leadership. It is not that......

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