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Desis Rally For Secular India

The Constitution's Preamble says that we Indians have resolved to secure for Indians 'fraternity, assuring the dignity of the individual'.Fraternity can come only when we stand up for each......

'US trying to temper expectations of India'

'Having India as a credible deterrent vis-a-vis Chinese ambitions in the Indian Ocean and South Asian region is a desirable short-term outcome.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, US President......

Delhi university's new centre to focus on Partition, including Congress role

The Delhi University will set up a Centre for Independence and Partition Studies to facilitate research on the "high voltage politics" accompanying Partition and how the then central leadership......

Govt blocks access to BBC documentary on Modi

The Centre has issued directions for blocking multiple YouTube videos and Twitter posts sharing links to the controversial BBC documentary 'India: The Modi Question', according to sources. Image......

Modi should not enter turf that angels fear to tread

'Frankly, India has no role to play.''This is a showdown between the US and NATO on one hand and Russia on the other.''That said, the outcome of this titanic struggle in Central Europe will remould......

Cyrus Mistry: Reclusive scion who let his work do the talking

A naturally reclusive nature with a conviction for work to do the talking meant there was very little known about Mistry even during his time at the helm of Tata Sons. He did not do a single media......

Can Indians live without Chinese imports?

'India imports 70 per cent of its bulk drugs from China. Are we going to live without antibiotics?' asks Debashis Basu. IMAGE: Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh activists burn Chinese Communist party......

Designing a flag for an upcoming revolution

Ajit Balakrishnan envisions a flag to capture the spirit of the impending conflicts of the Information Age. IMAGES: The flag designed by Pingali Venkayya in 1921 to rally Indians around the......

China - Prospects and paradoxes

No country has achieved a faster, deeper modern transformation than China, says former ambassador Kishan S Rana. That China is in the news is not novel. What is new is that rosy narratives of its......

'Great danger India will waste its demographic dividend'

'... for two reasons: the poor quality of education, and the low rate of female participation in the labour force.' 'Unless something is done quickly to remedy these problems, India will just have......

The Empire review

Kunal Kapoor’s bland portrayal cannot bring out Babur’s fascinating persona or his self-deprecating temperament, feels Sukanya Verma. ‘Zindagi maut se aakhir kitna lad le jeet......

Panipat Review

'Panipat has all the meat for a political drama meets war movie. But in Ashutosh Gowariker's failure to process its complexity, the material never rises beyond a mediocre hurray to the Maratha......

Mrinal Sen: 'I wish I could start from scratch'

'How do you expect me to tone down my anger when the most prominent culture in India today is the culture of corruption, in every sphere of life?'Mrinal Sen, who passed into the ages on December 30......

'I wanted to make Mangal Pandey 17 years ago'

Ketan Mehta's stopover in Locarno this August may be termed 'The Return.' The world premiere he attended of The Rising - Ballad of Mangal Pandey, also marks his first film in eight years. The saga......

'I think Salman is really cute!'

Nandana Sen was last seen as Rani Mukerji's sister in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black. This Friday sees the actress paired opposite Ajay Devgan in Mani Shankar's Tango Charlie, which Nandana calls......

Why you should watch The Test

'If there were ever a PR exercise to fix the seemingly irreparable image of Australian cricket in the aftermath of the most notorious on-field scandal in recent memory, then this is it,' observes......

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