'We are calling companies to set up assembly plants for mobile phones while all the components are imported.''Only the last turn of the screwdriver is done here. And you call it self-reliance,......
'Does anyone understand India?''Does anyone have a larger perspective for India as a whole?''Today we have rulers who do not understand the ruled.' IMAGE: Janata Dal-United leader Nitish Kumar......
A recent AIIMS study, which analysed published reports on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in India, states that over one-third (38 per cent) of Indians have fatty liver or non-alcoholic fatty......
We are currently in a transition phase and its resultant turmoil as a titanic struggle between Indian and Western value systems is being waged, argues Colonel Anil A Athale (retd). IMAGE: Prime......
To consider Pervez Musharraf a real force for peace is an absurdity, declares Ambassador T P Sreenivasan. IMAGE: Pakistan's then military dictator General Pervez Musharraf listens to then prime......
'Tilting at the government in English in front of India may make him feel like Joan of Arc, but without a feel for Bharat he will merely be Don Quixote,' says S Muraleedharan, former managing......
'Is the tech wonder of our times headed for trouble?' asks Ajit Balakrishnan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com 'Merkel and Macron warn against perils of digital imperialism'. I rubbed my......
Ajit Balakrishnan reflects on pariahs, small businesses, and blockchains.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Last weekend, on the way back from a weekend trip to Varanasi, my first trip there, we......
'For non-Indians there were no raises, no promotions, no identity, no career path' 'Sikka stood for transparency, open-door communication' Erin Green, bottom, left, former head of immigration at......
'It will be interesting to see how Dr Patel handles gadflies with the maturity of egregiously petulant three year olds.''That Dr Patel does not, in so far as we can tell, cause society matrons to......
'I somehow felt that Muzaffar Ali was in Aligarh to feel the pulse of the Muslim youth, especially in the darker and harsher times that India is passing through,' notes Mohammad Sajjad. IMAGE:......
'I don't think my troubles would have happened if she was with me. I kind of lost my way after she was gone,' Sanjay Dutt once told Subhash K Jha about his mother Nargis, the legendary actress who......
Operation Romeo is disappointing not because it is a bad or boring film, but because it did have something significant to say and chickened out, observes Deepa Gahlot. The title of this film,......
Photograph: Kind courtesy Hrithik Roshan/Instagram After delivering a Rs 300 crore blockbuster War, Hrithik Roshan returns to the action genre with Fighter. The film reunites him with his War and......
Jacqueline Fernandez sure can make a song and dance look good. From Madhuri's Ek Do Teen to her most recent number, Dil De Diya in Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai, the actress has enhanced so many of......