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Voters Prefer Strong Leaders Like Modi

...Even if it means less democracy, so that their everyday problems get solved? argues R Jagannathan. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Narendra D Modi addresses an election meeting in support......

LS polls: Why 'weapon drop boxes' are put in Manipur

'Please drop your snatched weapons here' reads the poster on a drop box placed on a road from Imphal and Churachandpur in Manipur. IMAGE: Manipur Police recently seized three SLR rifles with four......

'Positive progress' made to resolve border row: China

China and India have made 'positive progress' to resolve the border standoff, with both sides maintaining close communication through diplomatic and military channels, a senior foreign ministry......

China reacts to Modi's comments on border dispute

China on Thursday said that "sound and stable ties" serve the common interests of China and India as it reacted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks that for New Delhi, ties with Beijing are......

Abrahamic binary has outlived its utility

It is only the Indian approach of holding on to multiple realities and contradictory ideas simultaneously that is likely to deliver peace and progress.Binary logic is out of sync with reality,......

The Political Mindset On Jobs Needs Change

The challenge is to enhance opportunities for people to generate livelihoods through entrepreneurship, both big and small, argues R Jagannathan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com A......

'By 2025, we will be corruption free'

'I feel now we have a leader who is non-corruptible.''But he needs time as corruption is deep-rooted in our society, and people have no shame about being corrupt.''It will take at least 7 years to......

'Demonetisation is theft'

'Demonetisation, is in principal, a mistake, because it involves a theft -- a taking of private property by the State.''It is one of those bad Indian ideas that has been tried twice in the past,......

We are products of the makers of designer food

Now we need to fight back to reclaim our food and our habits. The only way to do so is to rediscover food as pleasure and be thrilled, not just by its smells and tastes, but also by the knowledge......

How India paid the price for 'EPW types'

Had it not been for the intellectual dominance and political legitimacy of the Leftist philosophy since 1970, would EPW have become what it did? After all, there were other more established......

2023 At The Movies: A Double Take

It was a year of so many contradictions and contrasts that it became dangerous to talk about movies, people lost their heads discussing Friday releases, psychiatrists began dabbling in film......

SRK, Rajamouli Among Time's 100 Most Influential

IMAGE: Shah Rukh Khan in Pathaan. Shah Rukh Khan, S S Rajamouli, Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi are among the World's 100 Most Influential People of 2023, Time magazine announced. The list also......

The Romantics: Of Yash Chopra and his biggest blockbuster: Adi!

Aditya Chopra may be a household name in India, but few have seen his face, recognise his voice or know the brain behind the business outside his tight inner circle.The Romantics makes sure it has......

Finally! An Indian Coming-Of-Age Movie For Grownups

Dear Friend is for those who idealised Dil Chahta Hai all out of proportion, and then warmed up to the premise that friendship could be a lot more complicated, and transient, observes Sreehari......

'Mr Hefner is the most decent man I've ever met'

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who passed into the ages on September 28, once hosted starlet Sherlyn Chopra at the Playboy Mansion.Sherlyn shares the experience. Sherlyn Chopra was the first Indian......

Are the Tokyo Olympics cancelled?

IMAGE: A man wears a protective mask amid the coronavirus outbreak in front of the giant Olympic rings in Tokyo. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters A senior Japanese ruling party official said on......

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