How Obama, Trump, Biden Greeted Modi...

Did Prime Minister Modi receive a different kind of reception at the Biden White House on Friday than he has has been used to at the American president's home? How did Barack Obama and Donald J......

Vajpayee, warts and all

'The sorry image of a wailing leader visiting relief camps for riot victims was completely incoherent with what he did next, blaming the minority community for the disturbance.'Utkarsh Mishra pens......

What Modi told Xi in Ahmedabad

'Xi Jinping got a dose of Modi's medicine inside the tent where he was being hosted on the banks of the Sabarmati river.''Modi told him, looking deep into his eyes: "This was not expected of your......

For lower electricity bills, Rahul sweats it out in Mumbai's streets

On the final day of his two-day visit to India's financial capital, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi tried to connect with Mumbaikars by raising the issue of high electricity bills during his......

Modi to bat for rejig of welfare schemes

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s economic agenda, to be unveiled on February 27 by its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, is likely to keep a push for big infrastructure projects and......

Is it the end of the road for Aadhaar?

Government's decision to suspend Aadhaar-based cash transfers in LPG has dealt a fresh blow to the project whose utility has always been questioned. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,......

Jagriti Yatra: Building India through enterprise

An ambitious endeavour, the Jagriti Yatra is both a promotion of enterprise and itself a manifestation of ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit. After traversing across India in a chartered train......

Can NGOs make govt's employment scheme a success?

Will handing over the management of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) ensure the scheme works? The rural development......

Bollywood bravado, and real cinema

Last Wednesday I took a 24-hour trip to Washington, DC. The next day I was a guest on Al Jazeera’s talk show The Stream and they wanted me to be in the city the night before. The show......

After Kamasutra 3D, he wants to make a film on NAMO 4D!

'India is waiting for a leader like Narendra Modi. I don't know whether the leader is Modi himself, but I know India needs a leader like him.' 'It's like the doubts the Jews had about Jesus Christ.......

Exclusive! Pakistan cricket, as never been revealed before!

'One of the boys who was caught in match-fixing comes from a village near Rawalpindi, where he lived in very basic conditions. Suddenly this boy becomes rich, he has two houses in Lahore, he is a......