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Nehru responsible for India's success? Or failure?

In the preface to Nehru: The Invention of India, Shashi Tharoor describes his book as a reinterpretation of an extraordinary life and a career and of the inheritance it left behind for every......

India MUST drive a hard bargain with China

India must be cautious and not repeat its Himayalan blunders during new Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang’s forthcoming visit, warns Colonel Anil Athale My last article Countries that wish to......

Border crisis: Why China won't back off

Whether Salman Khurshid goes to Beijing or cancels the trip, the Chinese won’t return from their present, newly occupied position, says Tarun Vijay. I agree that the Chinese incursion issue......

Harvest of Modi's personality cult has yet to be reaped

'Narendrabhai is India and India is Narendrabhai.' Is this the chorus that will greet us a few years hence, asks Vivek Dehejia. The great Italian political philosopher Antonio Gramsci wrote in his......

Khurshid will have to pick his battles as foreign minister

Salman Khurshid is likely to look at foreign affairs as a reflection of India's domestic development indicators, writes Jyoti Malhotra The appointment of Salman Khurshid as India's new external......

2012: Another annus horribilis, like the one before

Despite what the World Bank and IMF trained gnomes in North Block, South Block and Yojana Bhavan say, the numbers of the poor is rising alarmingly, says Mohan Guruswamy.A year ago, at about this......

SPECIAL: A few notifications is NOT reforms Mr PM!

For two decades while we continuously talked of infrastructure, power, ports, airports, irrigation, railways, roads, sewer systems, public transport, skill development, education, et all we also......

'No Manmohanomics for aam aadmi-focused state'

West Bengal would continue to attract capital despite the chief minister's anti-foreign direct investment stance in some sectors, said the state's minister for urban development and municipal......

The saga of the rupee and why it is falling

Rajeev Srinivasan looks at the reasons behind the debacle. The currency exchange rate is a representation of the market sentiment about the strength of a nation's economy. As such, it is often......

COLUMN: Utterly butterly Indian ads

A recently published book, Ad Katha, is not just a trip through the golden age of Indian advertising, but also an enquiry into how many of the cultural symbols that we now see as "Indian" came......

Cinema: The Voice of the People

Bollywood, along with regional commercial cinema, has reflected the ideology of its time, writes Malavika Sangghvi.A social anthropologist eager to understand Indian society would do well to look......

Goodbye, Mr Chopra

Substance was the hallmark of B R Chopra's films but the legendary filmmaker who passed awayon Wednesday at the age of 94 always felt that the rise of money and stardom have vitiated the image of......

India's Best Films: Girish Kasaravalli

Recently, Time magazine announced its list of the 100 greatest films of all time, and the eclectic selection includes five Indian films. While none would question the brilliance of the selected......

Neo gets his sidewalk star

Stars are who they are essentially for their ability to be uniquely special.Keanu Reeves, as the Architect in Matrix Reloaded would say, is an 'anomaly.' He is a star, yes, a considerably big......

People speak for nehruvian india

QNA

Q. Don't U think much has been done as idol worship in favour of the only Political family of India....itz high time we should make our soul searching and convince ourselves how long should we put up with this ADO of idol worship during the last 50 years of Nehruvian dynastic regime...???
Pradipta Pati: A. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/dont-u-think-much-has-been-done-as-idol-worship-in-favour-of/23740404/answers/

Q. why Govt isn't the deciding factor of pricing petroleum products? Why does the petroleum companies do that as per their whims?
Manas: A. Yes..i am ever ready for Rang De Basanti like act..i want some real people to join me.....Tum mera sath do, mein tumhe aajadi doonga....Jai Hind!! more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/why-govt-isnt-the-deciding-factor-of-pricing-petroleum-produ/22883396/answers/23740421

Q. In your view what is the strength and weakness ogf the Congress ?What is your opinion about Dr Man Mohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Chidambaram?
Manas: A. Dr. Man Mohan Singh, the eminent economist, is the architect of India's progress that everybody today talks about. Finance Minister Man Mohan Singh...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/in-your-view-what-is-the-strength-and-weakness-ogf-the-congr/22883396/answers/18308892

Q. Many blame the Nehruvian policies for many ills India is facing today. Do you think so? Your views?
Josna: A. yes I believe that he lived more in dreams than in reality and that has influenced his policies more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/many-blame-the-nehruvian-policies-for-many-ills-india-is-fac/18308740/answers/17559345

Q. Political sattire .... Is MMS in actuality the Indian PM or PM for Italianied Congressmen ?
Good Citizen: A. MMS is the best PM India has ever seen since Independence. He has brought India out of the quagmire of Nehruvian socilaism as FM in 1991... and...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/political-sattire-....-is-mms-in-actuality-the-indian-pm-or-/17559291/answers/17294913

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History as a utility toolkit

NEW DELHI: India's very recent history provides some choice examples of the institutionalized use and abuse of history for present-day ends.... ...

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A really serious playwright

Late last year, after spending six months on numerous drafts and rewrites, Girish Karnad's new play in Kannada, Benda Kalu on Toast, was ready. The... ...

http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/a-really-serious-playwright/article4727014.ece

India MUST drive a hard bargain with China

India must be cautious and not repeat its Himayalan blunders during new Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang’s forthcoming visit, warns Colonel... ...

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Unshrinking the kids

A few weeks ago, through a gazette notification, the relationship of the child with the state was rearticulated, in some measure, through the... ...

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/unshrinking-the-kids/article4721720.ece

The Chinese are buying!

Some four years ago India's Global Power Houses, co-authored by the columnist along with Professor Nirmalya Kumar of London Business School was... ...

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News for Nehruvian India

Nehru responsible for India's success? Or failure?

India MUST drive a hard bargain with China

Border crisis: Why China won't back off

Harvest of Modi's personality cult has yet to be reaped

Khurshid will have to pick his battles as foreign minister

2012: Another annus horribilis, like the one before

SPECIAL: A few notifications is NOT reforms Mr PM!

'No Manmohanomics for aam aadmi-focused state'

The saga of the rupee and why it is falling

COLUMN: Utterly butterly Indian ads

Cinema: The Voice of the People

Goodbye, Mr Chopra

India's Best Films: Girish Kasaravalli

Neo gets his sidewalk star

People speak for nehruvian india

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