The tripolar world that Modi should plan for

'India should think big: About how in a multi-polar world, India can indeed be one of the poles, rather than being a secondary power that has to worry about 'alignment' with one of the poles. A G3......

Pax Indica and a multipolar world

The images of an America struggling to assert its will in Iraq have startled many observers. Here is a country devastated by a decade-long embargo; its paramount ruler has been hunted down in a......

Review: Gunday is utter garbage

'Director Ali Abbas Zafar has directed a monstrous film, one with a repellent 70s-set storyline that makes no sense whatsoever, and a cast who should all hang their heads and offer up a......

Review: Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani disappoints

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is a good-looking film but lacks a good story, writes Raja Sen. When we can’t stand something a certain way, we’re instinctively prone to wishing it were......

Thinking too much about 24th Slam didn't help, says Serena

'I'd be lying if I said I didn't want that record. Obviously I do. But day-to-day, I'm really not thinking about her' IMAGE: Serena Williams won her last Grand Slam in 2017 and has been chasing an......

Olympic machismo: The tale the medals tell

I am always embarrassed by India's wretched showing in the Olympics, which is a metaphor for the two things that haunt India -- lack of a strategic intent, and lack of leadership. It is not that......

India's old fallibilities remain unresolved

India waxed and waned in 2002 in a manner calculated to puzzle even followers of the turf, used to the vicissitudes of sport. Seldom in a single year coulda team have batted with the brilliance......