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Why The South Is Worried About Delimitation

'Peninsular Indians could ask 'Why should we contribute half of India's tax revenues if we account for only a quarter of the seats in the Lok Sabha?'.' 'The rest of the country seems likely to......

'We Want To Develop Dharavi Like Hong Kong'

'Dharavi will be completely slum free by 2040.' IMAGE: Tourists walk through Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums. Photograph: Arko Datta/Reuters If you travel on Mumbai's metro line 2A or line 7,......

Terrorism is a grey area in India-Israel ties

'Unsurprisingly, the joint statement issued after Modi's visit contains a paragraph on terrorism.''It is on the usual lines that India would have with, say, Croatia.''The surprising part is that it......

Phase Two of #MeToo begins

'Mr Akbar has underestimated the level of pent-up anger and commitment among these women,' a young lawyer tells Sunil Sethi.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com 'Memory,' said Oscar Wilde, 'is......

SCO summit: Another chance to improve India-China ties

'Clearly, the warming of ties can be a 'win-win' for India and China,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping.......

Can Gopal Vittal guide Airtel through its existential crisis?

When Gopal Vittal spent time as head of marketing at Airtel, between 2006 and 2008, he was with a company at the top of its game. It had pioneered a canny model of outsourcing its infrastructure......

Why CEOs need to track bad news

Just when there seem to be no leviathans left standing in the boardroom, management guru Jim Collins has listed the 10 greatest CEOs of all time (Fortune, July 21, 2003).As the author of Built to......

Mother of all diesel cars

The year was 1933. It was a cold autumn night at the Gaggenau works of Daimler-Benz, Germany. A few development engineers had been working on a nightmare of an assignment and a couple of them had......

Top 11 Foreign Language Films, 2014

Beautiful movies, from across the world. The year 2014 was big when it came to foreign language films, as many film festival award winners played in theatres in New York City. This year 83......

What sending Jallikattu to the Oscars means

To an award show that's famous for honouring artists belatedly, we have sent as our official entry one of our major film-makers's weakest work yet, feels Sreehari Nair. So I am taking my evening......

Golden Globes 2015: Julianne Moore, Michael Keaton win

The 72th Annual Golden Globe awards have been announced. There have been quite a few surprises and some expected nods. Here's a quick glance at the winners, listed in bold: BEST MOTION......

Oscars 2015: Eddie Redmayne, Jullianne Moore win

The 87th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. A quick glance at the winners, listed in bold: BEST PICTURE American Sniper Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Boyhood The......

Birdman, Boyhood, American Sniper sweep Oscar 2015 nominations

The 87th Annual Academy awards nominations were announced by directors JJ Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón as well as Chris Pine and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, at the......