At the age of 28 he's perhaps the only one in the country who's making cartoons on natural history.
Regardless of how the stalemate ends, the government needs to learn that regardless of its parliamentary strength it cannot take people for granted. A little bit of humility would do it a lot of good, recommends Virendra Kapoor.
The combined Left parties drew a blank in the polls to the assembly which they had run with an overwhelming majority for 34 long years, with their vote share dwindling to a mere 5.47 per cent in 2021.
Films that amazed Aseem Chhabra at the El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt.
'There was news in some quarters that Modi himself will enter the fray from Patna Sahib on a second seat in addition to Varansi ... What happened?'
Nemaida's misfortune in life was to be known as Satyajit Ray's 'Boswell'; History will remember Satish Gujral as a renaissance man whose imprint over New Delhi is huge.
Shivaji made sure that his soldiers respected the sanctity of mosques and the Quran Sharif to ensure that his fight against the Mughals did not become fight against Islam, explains Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
'No amount of digression can hide deflect the fact that the PM's visit was badly conceived, planned and executed,' argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The weatherman has predicted rainfall throughout the day with the mercury settling at 19C.
'As a society, why are we not talking about the one thing because of which we are born today?'
On December 28, 2020, Dr Mahinder Watsa, India's noted sexologist, author and columnist passed away. Mumbai, and India, lost a unique icon who will be sorely missed.
'If Khan Market today -- a neon-drenched spectacle of blingy shops and pricey eateries -- is what it is, it's not due to the dramatic shift in political dispensations, but because free-market India is another country,' notes Sunil Sethi.
KPS Menon (Jr) had a quiet humility and playfulness, and was not motivated by money or power, recalls Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Social media was abuzz with posts ridiculing the PM's comment. The hashtag # #YoBadalSoMandela also began to trend on Twitter.
Is it sustainable?' 'Or is it like an overdose of a medicine that saves your life in the short run but kills you through long-lasting side-effects?' asks Shekhar Gupta.
There's no head or tails to anything that happens in Saaho, says Sukanya Verma.
Twenty years ago, Aziz Mirza had the foresight to predict the great discord India would witness and revolt against, notes Sukanya Verma.
Mahendra Raj is a towering figure of 20th century Indian architecture.
You can return to Delhi even after 25 years and find that friends treat you as if you had never left, says Rahul Jacob.
The BJP is banking on development. The opposition is raking up caste identities and the dangers of hyper nationalism.
In Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg returns to an arena he predominantly parented with the optimism of a kid who hasn't forgotten what it's like to be an audience, notes Sukanya Verma.
Two successive reports, one by Percy Mistry in 2007 and the other by Raghuram Rajan in 2008 had provided the RBI and the finance ministry with blueprints of what to do next. Both reports, unfortunately, was put on ice. The global meltdown saved the RBI. It also saved the finance ministry from having to work on the two reports.
An entirely new lexicon of political jibes emerged during the elections
All is not well with Telengana and its Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao
Rock On 2 does more for Meghalaya tourism than it does for rock music, feels Sukanya Verma.
In 1998, the Congress asked her mother to campaign. 'We had a family discussion. We explained to our mother that you will be used, you will be discarded once you are done with the campaign.' 'A few days later I got a call from my mother. She said, "I have decided to campaign".' 'We were stunned. Why was she doing this?' Payal Mohanka listens in.
'Until Humshakals, it was all good. Then, that film did not work and after that, the offers weren't good. That's when you wish you were from the industry, that someone would be producing or directing you, or if nothing else, funding you.' Honest confessions from Esha Gupta.
On February 22, 2013, the Reserve Bank of India issued guidelines on 'Licensing of New Banks in the Private Sector'.
'Article 15 is not the work of a hack, or of someone merely scooping a plot out of newspaper headlines.' 'It is a well-researched, clear-headed movie; but its findings have a purpose,' says Sreehari Nair.
Malayalam film The Dolphins gets preachy after a while, says Paresh C Palicha.
'A class antagonism of rich versus poor took the colouring of a communal confrontation,' says Sunil Sethi.
To outgoing Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao, negotiating big deals was an art form, as an international report pointed out after the $130-billion sale of Vodafone's 45 per cent stake in Verizon Wireless, says Nivedita Mookerji.
'In India, we have a strange affinity towards recycling gifts.' But Jeenees is changing that.
That Australia is ready for a substantive engagement is evident from its 2013 Defence White Paper, which emphasised the need to build stronger defence relations with India, says Ajai Shukla
The biggest winner was Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan who ran her ship with self-confidence and aplomb.
Peter said he needed a broom to sweep his cell because, he joked, there are no vacuum cleaners in jail.
'The Pakistani military has encouraged and supported terrorist organisations, especially in Kashmir, as a means of waging proxy war against the Indian military and the country's superior economic resources.' 'The evidence is irrefutable with the recent killing of 46 paramilitary troops being just the latest example.'
John Wick's Amar Akbar Anthony connection, filmi fundas from Gabbar Singh and best Bollywood songs of 2017 so far, everything you need to know about Sukanya Verma's super filmi week.
Whenever Akshay appears on screen, The Shaukeens transforms into another movie -- one that's substantially more comic, cheeky and winsome, says Sukanya Verma.
Mark Tully on the India he loves.
