What Ravana, Duryodhana can teach India's leaders

What drove Ravana, a good king, and Duryodhana, who could match Bhima on strength and valour to ruin?Arrogance, points out Arundhuti Dasgupta.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com   Speaking......

'BJP like Duryodhana, but AAP has Krishna on its side'

AAP's Arvind Kejriwal meets his supporters during the election campaign at South Avenue in New Delhi on Thursday. Photograph: Subhav Shukla/PTI With two days to go for Delhi polls, Aam Aadmi Party......

'Dhritarashtra' EC is helping 'Duryodhana' BJP win elections: Kejriwal

Launching an attack on the Election Commission over alleged electronic voting machines manipulation, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday claimed that the poll body was acting like......

Mamata sits overnight in 'dharna' against Centre

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sat overnight in front of Dalit icon Dr B R Ambedkar's statue on Red Road in the heart of the metropolis, surrounded by a cohort of Trinamool Congress......

Relax, capitalism is not the problem

The choice for policy-makers is not between free markets and central planning but in getting the right mix of regulation, says Gurcharan Das. The epic, Mahabharata, thinks that human beings are......

What makes entrepreneurs tick? Gurcharan Das finds

In his last bestseller he sought answers to the importance of being good using the epic Mahabharata as a reference point and now author and economist Gurcharan Das sets out to discover success......

Baahubali: The Beginning: 5 Years On, 10 Facts

Baahubali: The Beginning released on July 10, 2015 and changed the way audiences watched Indian films. S S Rajamouli's film broke box office records and paved the way for its sequel, Baahubali: The......

Ramayana magic recreated in Telugu

In the early and middle decades of the last century, several mythological films were made in Telugu revolving around the epics and stories from the Puranas, with actors such as the late N T Rama......

Review: Mahabharat, dumbed down

If only Mahabharat was a made-for-radio special instead of a half-heartedly animated demo reel masquerading as a children’s fantasy, writes Sukanya Verma. Simplifying serious literature or......

Rajini@70: My Favourite Rajinikanth films

As Rajinikanth turns 70 on December 12, we look back at the megastar's movies that kept us enthralled. Divya Nair is spoilt for choice, but picks her favourite Rajini films.   Apoorva......