From being exorbitantly priced to facing stiff competition, Harley was always going to find it tough to crack a market like India, says Dhruv Munjal.
'During my nearly three decades of military service, both in war and peace, I have usefully drawn upon Gandhiji's storehouse of wisdom.' 'When military intelligence jobs require tightrope walking on the edge of moral and ethical dilemmas, I have looked up to Gandhiji,' notes Colonel R Hariharan (retd).
'Those who are talking of adopting the Narasimha Rao-Manmohan Singh policy must understand now that what was a reform then is no longer a reform now,' argues Sukumar Mukhopadhyay who was associated with the 1991 economic reforms.
'Today's India is fearless and is on track to be a great power. But this is definitely not happening without women, who form 48 per cent of our population.'
'The satire in Khajoor Pe Atke is not savage enough,' feels Prasanna Zore.
This Republic Day, learn what it takes to be a perfect patriot from Bollywood.
'2.0 ends up looking like a downgraded version of a promising idea,' notes Sukanya Verma.
1923-2018: Remembering Mort Walker.
Brown dwarfs are thought to be the missing link between planets and stars, with masses up to 80 times that of Jupiter.
Nitibha wins the Immunity Medallion and Bigg Boss puts relationships at test in the new nomination task, discovers Divya Nair.
Naveen seemed the most genuine guy when he entered the Bigg Boss house. Now, he just likes to be in the spotlight by playing his so-called 'psycho' role.
The new flagship Maybach S 650 replaces the S 600 in India
Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri, MDC to his students, was beyond compare -- the stuff of tales and legends at the Delhi School of Economics. He was also a good intuitive economist.
A local court in Mumbai on Monday convicted security guard Sajjad Ahmed Mughal in connection with the murder of 25-year-old city-based lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha in her flat at suburban Wadala in 2012.
There is a need for stimulus, as India is essentially a consumption economy, argues Cargill India chairman Siraj Chaudhry
'There is a need for stimulus, as India is essentially a consumption economy.'
A look at Bollywood's best cabaret performers over the years! Who is 'YOUR' favourite?
'Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga is a step backward for the portrayal of female camaraderie in our movies,' argues Sreehari Nair.
In the documentary The World Before Her, a young girl has to submit to the will of her father for a most gut-wrenching reason: 'He let me live... I am a girl... but he let me live.' Is that reason enough, asks Suparn Verma.
Comedy may be challenging but that wasn't what stressed Taapsee Pannu during the making of Judwaa 2.
The Jaguar F-Type not only looks drop-dead gorgeous but also has immense power on tap.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Met these distinctive personalities during Navratri, asks Tista Sengupta.
Whenever Akshay appears on screen, The Shaukeens transforms into another movie -- one that's substantially more comic, cheeky and winsome, says Sukanya Verma.
Of the two brothers in Kapoor & Sons, Fawad Khan's is the more successful, the better-earning, the more polite, the apple of his parents's eyes. Beside this perfection sits his homosexuality and the film forces us to question if we can look at Rahul as perfect, inspite of that fact.
Be prepared to bump into some special people at the pandal.
Conversations with her bestie in the bathroom and other Dosti tales from Tista Sengupta.
'The overarching fact of modern social behaviour isn't that we are irresponsible women and men, but that we are never quite sure, when and how to act responsibly.' 'This is the real side of every Twitter outrage, where those who tweet about stories of 'unreported domestic abuse' end up feeling superior to those neighbours who are summoned up as clueless witnesses.' 'This view of the supposed spiritual decay of our times, which is at the core of Gali Guleiyan, is thus more fashionable than perceptive,' says Sreehari Nair.
Spark's title, like everything else about it, is random, rants Paloma Sharma.
'In this resurgent India, class is the new caste. We are shaken up only occasionally, and briefly, when a battered, tribal teenager from Jharkhand looks us in the eye from our closet,' says Shekhar Gupta.
Raja Sen reviews Birdman in three sentences, as a tribute to the film's brilliant one-take technique. We space out the review for easy reading.
'I live in a privileged city, I have a privileged life, I was in a car.' 'If it can happen here, then there is literally no hope for women in rural India or smaller cities.' 'If more women think we can help ourselves, we can survive, and men would be a lot more hesitant to try something like this.'
How much money the Modi government has already spent and is going to spend on all those foreign trips, muses Sunita Iyer
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