Taliban-run Afghanistan: Does India have a role?

New Delhi should resist any temptation to act as spoiler and instead should cooperate with its SCO partners in reaching a regional consensus behind the formation of an interim government in Kabul,......

Just who is Deep Sidhu of Red Fort fame?

Most of India knows Deep Sidhu as the man who planted the Sikh religious flag on Red Fort.Aditi Phadnis gives us the back story. IMAGE: Actor Deep Sidhu. Photograph: Kind courtesy Deep......

Shaheen Bagh protest: A battle for the Idea of India

'Shaheen Bagh is no longer a mere ghetto of lower middle class Muslims.''Now, it is a metaphor for resistance, secularism and struggle,' notes Md. Zeeshan Ahmad. IMAGE: Republic Day being......

Lockdown lessons: How to be atmanirbhar with nishtha

'Watching Amit Shah's speech on YouTube energised me, and I got back with renewed vigour to calculating how many months I can survive without a job,' says Sumit Bhattacharya.Illustration Uttam......

Is India's economy crashing?

Or do we need to retool our country, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Open any newspaper or news Web site and the bad news is unrelenting. It looks like a whole slew......

Abhijit Banerjee and the mystique of the Nobel Prize

Does Abhijit Banerjee's Nobel Prize help India reduce extreme poverty, asks Rajeev Srinivasan. IMAGE: Professor Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics. Photograph: Brian......

Net neutrality and the privacy debate

Indian policy-makers must see the choices before them as economic, not moral, ones, says Ajit Balakrishnan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The average citizen who looks at the Internet as......

'Distinguish between wilful and genuine defaulters'

'There are many cases where a company hits the wall because of reasons not under their control.''If you do not understand and appreciate that and paint all promoters with the same brush, then......

Looking At 1999: 25 Years Ago In Bollywood...

1999 in Hindi movies marked the end of a vibrant young decade and a gentle promise of electrifying new things to come in the new millennium. Where madcap masala still reigned supreme, morally......

10 Gangster Shows On OTT

The Web series Bambai Meri Jaan has put the spotlight back to the dark days when the underworld overran Mumbai. The gangster saga is a popular subject with film and serial makers, particularly when......

Bambai Meri Jaan Review: Gansgter Gush

Bambai Meri Jaan features horrific massacres and violence so brutal that it ought not to be seen on a home entertainment platform, warns Deepa Gahlot. Mainstream Hindi cinema went through a phase......

Jawan Review: SRK Shows Who's Baap!

Jawan springs a real surprise when it boldly and directly points fingers at the ineffective government and appeals to recognise the power of the finger and vote. Just months before the next......

Kamran wants Umar to learn from Tendulkar, Dhoni and Kohli

Out-of favour Pakistan wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal feels his banned younger brother Umar should learn from the exemplary conduct of Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Virat Kohli both on and......

10 Reasons why Michel Platini is sidelined

Tables turned as Platini pushed onto the defensive Favourite to win February's FIFA presidential election until the end of last week, Michel Platini is suddenly facing the same doubts and criticism......

Why Platini is no longer the favourite to succeed Blatter at FIFA

- The Swiss attorney general's office said Sepp Blatter, who has been FIFA president since 1998, is suspected of making a "disloyal payment" of 2 million Swiss francs ($2.04 million)......

Hughes tragedy overshadows eventful year in cricket

A woman places flowers amongst other tributes next to a photograph of Phil Hughes outside the Adelaide Oval. Photograph: Morne de Klerk/Getty Images New Zealand's Corey Anderson took 36 balls to......

Wisden reasserts traditional values in online world

A wintry blast at the start of the English season and the return of the national team after a chastening winter coincide with the publication of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanac under its youngest......