Dilli Abhi Door Ast

Regional films may have prevailed over the country, but regional leaders still have far mountains to climb to reach Delhi, asserts Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: Mulayam Singh Yadav, then national......

Will newspapers survive COVID-19?

'Here is hoping that the entirely unintended and unforeseen victims of the coronavirus, the printed papers, emerge safe and unscathed from the affliction,' says Shreekant Sambrani.Illustration:......

Monsoon mystics: Who trusts the IMD's weather forecast?

The IMD has fancy weather-monitoring radars in the name of providing better forecasts, but their findings hardly help the farmers, explains Shreekant Sambrani. I make two assertions with complete......

NSEL and MCX set to reconstitute boards

After a slew of resignations from the board of National Spot Exchange Ltd in the wake of its payment crisis, a new set of names is to be announced soon. There were seven members, including a......

India's food crisis was foretold, but. . .

The food crisis was obvious in July but the government had unrealistic hopes of a good rabi, says Shreekant Sambrani. Pity poor Mr Pawar. The agriculture minister is grilled so badly these days......

Can India deal with the drought?

India should not allow millions to suffer the ill effects of a drought because of official apathy or sluggishness, says T N Ninan. One of the notable episodes of Rajiv Gandhi's leadership of the......