COVID-19: 'Modi is the Muqaddar ka Sikandar'

'This pandemic has given him a new platform to perform,' says a member of the government.'He should feel lucky that he has got an opportunity now to demonstrate to the world his original......

'This government is particularly ruthless'

'Today we see the worrisome phenomenon where honest officers who run afoul of the government being chased, hunted down and dirt being dug up on them.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas......

How Modi plans to change babudom

The PM is keen to fill 40 per cent of the joint secretary level openings with outsiders.R Rajagopalan reports. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi interacts with secretaries of all......

Parrikar tamed death and lived like a warrior king

Close friend Tarun Vijay pays tribute to the four-time Goa chief minister and former defence minister who passed into the ages on Sunday. IMAGE: Manohar Parrikar, as defence minister, at a defence......

Will the real Mr Modi please stand up?

Human memory about policy issues is short.That alone can explain why many are deliriously happy with his latest slogans and ignore seven years of poor 'doing business' climate, taxtortion,......

Modi should focus on wealth creation, not wealth distribution

'When you start distributing wealth, you end up distributing poverty.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Where is India's economy heading? After more than 100 days of lockdown, have the......

Modi has become a great reformer

Whether it took the corona crisis to bring about the transformation, or otherwise, the change ought to be welcome, notes Virendra Kapoor. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi at the......

'BJP wants to treat labour like animals'

'COVID-19 is just an excuse to pass anti-labour laws.' IMAGE: Migrant labourers head back to their villages on a crowded bus. Photograph: Aftab Alam Siddiqui/ANI Photo Central trade unions have......

Naseer, Om, AB pay respects to Amrish Puri

Amrish Puri, whose eldest brother Madan Puri was a wellknown actor, initially screentested for a hero's role in 1954. But he did not get the part. His first movie was Sunil Dutt's Reshma Aur Sheera......

Jayaprakash Narayan deserved better

They don't make men like that anymore. A quintessential anti-establishment man, Jayaprakash Narayan courted officialdom's wrath in life. Twenty-five years after his death, he has again made the......