Met the 'Department of Big Moves'?

This whirlwind of activity only confirms that rushing around creating an impression of pompous busy-ness is not the same thing as solving problems, argues Mitali Saran. IMAGE: Prime Minister......

For whom the bell trolls

'Some semi-literate lunkhead tweeting at Rs 2 per tweet from a dingy basement in Chennai or San Diego accomplishes nothing, but give hundreds of thousands of them a time, date, and talking points,......

What Rahul must be careful about

'The 2019 battle is a battle for the kind of India that we want to live in.'The Congress's long history is pockmarked with sins great and small, but Mr Gandhi has the advantage of representing a......

The general election will be the dirtiest yet

'It promises to get much, much darker before the dawn.''But at least dawn has a fighting chance,' says Mitali Saran.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com It's been an exhausting four years for......

Water: Learning to live without it

Until quite recently most Europeans -- especially the French -- didn't see much sense in bathing. One supposes it was cold and inconvenient, and that someone had to have a good reason to establish......

Time to have an adult as Censor chief

'I've always figured that it's the people who don't get laid enough, or well enough, who feel compelled to constrain and tear down anyone who looks as if they're having a good time,' says Mitali......

The Indians who made us proudest in Rio are all women

'Sakshi Malik's medal is her individual and singular accomplishment.''So is P V Sindhu's badminton medal.''So is Dipa Karmakar's loss-by-a-whisker.''So is the surprise that is 18-year-old golfer......