Like ants declining to question the rules of the anthill, they feel innately justified in their approach, notes Shyam G Menon.
Attlee said Great Britain had concluded that the Indian element of the army was no longer reliable and that Netaji's Indian National Army had demonstrated that. That had shaken the foundation on which Britain's Indian empire rested, argues Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd).
Fashion designer Suket Dhir has bagged the International Woolmark Prize for menswear, becoming the second from India in four years to win the Rs 48.5 lakh worth prestigious prize.
'A breakthrough in eastern Ladakh leading to disengagement and creation of a buffer zone will obviate the need of military deployment through the winter months ahead,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The World Atlas of Tattoo features Nagaland's Mo Naga, Kolkata's Abhinandan 'Obi' Basu and new Delhi's Manjeet Singh, amongst the who's who of tattoo art all over the world.
'Virat Kohli features in 25 campaigns, Ranveer Singh in 24, Akshay Kumar in 22, Deepika Padukone in 20, Ranbir Kapoor in 13, M S Dhoni in 12, Amitabh Bachchan in 12, Alia Bhatt in 11... but not one celebrity campaign is a sizzler,' says ad guru Sandeep Goyal.
'It is just an excuse to say that the Centre has run out of money.' 'Pruning these schemes would mean hard time for the people of India.'
He will be remembered not only as a writer but as one of the great chroniclers and interrogators of the history of our times, says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The Bollywood beauty opened the Asian Designer Week in the capital city.
Indian elections are won and lost on 'negative' imageries and campaigns - but not certainly on 'negativity' as a political trait and electoral creed, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.
While discount brokers have managed to grow at a rapid pace, they have not been successful in capturing substantial market share in the above-40 age category.
'If you look at its melody, it's nothing.'
Here's a glimpse of the runway action at Fashion Rio Summer 2012-13, featuring colourful creations from Brazil's swimwear fraternity.
Saif Ali Khan's daughter Sara made her ramp debut as she walked the ramp in an Abu-Sandeep creation.
The Natural History Museum's annual competition and exhibition, Wildlife Photographer of the Year has been the longest-running and most prestigious nature and wildlife photography competition that has been recognising the world's best nature photography every year since 1965.
Before migrating into the theatre command concept, it would be worthwhile to study the shortfalls experienced by the Tri Services Command in the Andaman and Nicobar islands and make good the deficiencies, suggests Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
The colour white has always been synonymous with veteran filmmaker.
Isha is set to tie the knot with Anand Piramal this week.
The Heropanti actor was the showstopper for Sonaakshi Raaj's bridal collection at Lakme Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015.
Here's a look at the celebs who attended the Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla curtain raiser for Lakme Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015.
Would you wear any of these wacky outfits?
'As Indians, we should be claiming and celebrating 'Bhartiyata' rather than seeking commitment to beliefs which are divisive and exclusionary.'
Take a look at these beautiful stunners who walked the ramp recently and while at it, vote for your favourite at the very end.
'Oscar has been given to A R Rahman.' Ringa Ringa Ringa, Choli ki peeche kya hai -- What's the difference? Exactly the same. Also, Jai ho.' 'I did Ramba ho in 1985.' 'Rahman combined three of my songs and got Best Original Score.' 'The Ho came from me.' 'Bappi Lahiri brought the Ho to Bollywood.'
Sukanya Verma looks at the colourful portrayal of this festival on the Bollywood screen.
The passing of Satyajit Ray's renaissance man feels like the snapping of the last connection with a generation that built a nation and defined grace while facing everything life had to throw at them, says Sumit Bhattacharya.
'The BJP will not be able to create dictatorship of the kind it is perhaps dreaming of.' 'We have Bengal as the biggest example.'
The television personality added a playful touch at Mayyur Girotra's launch party with the perfect hairstyle.
Should we be exposing our women volunteers to the barbarity of actual combat?
The Assam-Mizoram violence is an outcome of BJP trying too hard to 'integrate' distinct northeastern states, explains Shekhar Gupta.
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said India is a very special and important country with a remarkable entrepreneurship culture, as he sought to push deeper the just-launched payments services that allow users to make payments over WhatsApp. Last month, Facebook-owned WhatsApp received approval from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) for rolling out its payments services in India. In 2018, WhatsApp started testing its UPI-based payments services in India -- a global first -- with about a million users.
Designers Atsu Sekhose and Nimish Shah offer plenty of inspiration for the girls.
Developed markets have performed better than emerging market firms in the top 10 TSR-based rankings, says a BCG report.
'Political parties are following the Divide and Rule policy to break the unity of farmers.'
A glimpse at celebrities present and designs displayed at the Beetle's Tech Fashion Fashion Tour 2016.
'Non-separation of religion from politics is India's most daunting challenge'
The sad truth is that the debt-to-GDP ratio will shoot up close to 90 per cent in the coming year, and the fiscal deficit glide path does not promise to reduce it substantially any time soon, predicts Mihir S Sharma.
Rup Narayan Das reveals the towering Odisha leader's role in improving national security after the 1962 War with China.
'The Indian Navy has sufficient combat power in areas of interest to India that can quickly scale up operations if the need arises.' 'This includes all the choke points leading into the Indian Ocean as also areas within.'
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