It is critical to think seriously about how to provide opportunities for children to not only learn but also imagine, dream, ponder and create, notes Chintan Girish Modi.
'If you perform well, if you do your best, it stays with the viewer. That's how you grow.'
All those who have left Sena should return: Bal Thackeray.
Coach Otto Pfister he would return with the team to their Wangen base to prepare for their other matches against Switzerland and France
'As the sun rises, so does my acquaintance with the neighbourhood's avifauna,' says Kishore Singh.
Seed and early-stage start-ups are high-risk businesses, rarely have collateral and only 1 in 10 of them makes it to becoming a viable company.
'Zund makes one sit up and wonder why we have allowed ourselves to be played like pawns by power mongers,' says Neeta Kolhatkar.
'I'm very upset with Dilipsaab for retiring 40 years too early.' Kamal Haasan talks about his idol Dilip Kumar.
'In Tamil Nadu where film stars are treated as gods, Balu Mahendra was an institution by himself,' Actress Radhika Sharatkumar pays rich tribute to the filmmaker, who passed away on Thursday, February 13.
'Neither Aamir's hard-at-work whimsicality nor Amitabh Bachchan's stoic presence can salvage a second of this bloated, blundering bore,' fumes Sukanya Verma.
'This proved that whatever was growing in the mosquito's gut was a parasite -- it was almost certainly the malarial parasite.'
The banyan tree and the green chilli; the crow and the beetle; the rose and the mango; the informality and good humour of its people... Beloved author Ruskin Bond continues Rediff.com's special series on India's treasures, and tells Archana Masih that India's wealth lies in its simple splendours.
The Summit will take bilateral relations to a higher level and have a major and positive impact on regional and world peace, stability and development, Sun said.
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'While its people might be a little less resistant to changing for its greater good, New Delhi, unfortunately, is also evolving into an ugly city of which one must remain wary to survive its rising incidents of violence and crime,' says Kishore Singh.
Modi also said the people of India felt proud that President Xi has twice received him out of the capital.
'I have a voice and must use it to do as much as I can.'
'Sounds familiar? Barring inflation, much else looks, sounds, and feels more than a bit like 1974.' 'A phenomenally popular leader, with a party of unquestioning followers, a broken Opposition, a nationalist high and an economy in free fall, crippling joblessness,' recalls Shekhar Gupta.
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'Thugs is smarter than a lot of 'nationalistic' movies,' notes Rohit Sathish Nair.
'He has a gift none of his eight predecessors, from Manmohan Singh to Rajiv Gandhi, had: Being able to speak directly and convincingly to a large enough section of Indians who will take his word for gospel,' notes Shekhar Gupta.
'Jinnah developed a belief that Gandhi had stolen the tag of the leader of the Indian people from him and that he later used religion to reduce Gandhi's idea of a united India to naught was his revenge.'
'Good economics isn't necessarily bad politics, or vice versa,' says Shekhar Gupta.
'As citizens of this country, we often expect sweeping changes here, but find the smallest of abdications that we may ourselves be called upon to make far too inconveniencing.' 'Think about it deeply -- about the move and the reactions it has gathered -- and we will actually learn a lot about ourselves,' says Sreehari Nair.
Claude Arpi reveals how Wing Commander Jag Mohan Nath won a second Maha Vir Chakra in the 1965 War.
The humans are in trouble. They've been attacked by a Virus. What happens to the animals who depend on them? The Crows? The Dogs? And The Cats? Nitin Sathe's short story set in the times of the coronavirus.
Donald Trump's new CIA pick hasn't been greeted with the avalanche of media gush that inevitably follows a woman who becomes the first among her gender to get a top job.
'Our Lockdown Life has a sort of schizophrenic, Dr-Jekyll-and-Mr-Hyde personality about it,' says Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Franchise films will continue to dominate the calendar, with big-ticket movies like Avengers: Infinity War, Aquaman, Dark Phoenix, Deadpool 2, Black Panther.
It is difficult to understand why Johnny Depp agreed to make Mortdecai, says Paloma Sharma.
A Million Ways To Die In The West could have done better with more editing and less Seth McFarlane, says Paloma Sharma.
'Parrikar should never have bracketed himself with Modi.' 'That was an act of blasphemy that could invite divine retribution,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Actor, boring interviewee, bomb blast accused and warm, open-hearted man who made peace with the problems in his life...
'Almost deified by enough Indians now, never mind his politics and, worse, economics,' says Shekhar Gupta.
