Mayawati calls for Dalit-Brahmin unity to bring BSP back to power in UP

Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Samajwadi Party of only making tall claims but doing nothing on the ground, Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Tuesday gave a clarion call for a......

Nitish Kumar Has Proved He Is Master Of The Game

This election is a thank you note to Nitish Babu from a grateful Bihari people, notes Sheela Bhatt. IMAGE: A hoarding spotted near Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's home in Patna as the National......

Dr Ambedkar's 1956 Buddhist Revolution

On October 14, 1956, Dr B R Ambedkar, fulfilling his long-held vow to renounce Hinduism, embraced Buddhism along with over 500,000 followers at Nagpur's Deekshabhoomi, marking a new era of social......

Bihar records highest-ever 65% turnout in first phase of polls

In the "highest ever" voter turnout in Bihar, nearly 65 percent of 3.75 crore electors exercised their franchise on Thursday across 121 constituencies in the first phase of the assembly elections,......

Homebound Review: Highly Recommended

In the slot of rural poor, there are those who struggle to pull themselves out of crumbling hovels, and there are the Jamtara-like bunch who turn to crime.Neeraj Ghaywan's Homebound is about the......

'I'm The Only Acknowledged Dalit In All Of Hindi Cinema History'

'If you look around the world at people of colour, religion, caste, sexuality or any of the marginalised communities, we are always talking in numbers.''We are always assigning them a statistic.'......

'Today, We Are Too Sensitive'

''We have had several films on the caste system but they are all in different decades, when sensibilities were mature enough to comprehend.''Today, we are in a different zone of thought.' IMAGE:......

Controversy's Child Kamal Haasan

Kamal has a crisp pen when it comes to writing short and yet powerful film dialogues.But while speaking ex tempore -- and that has been his style -- he looks every bit a confused man, observes N......