...a time when his legacy ledger was still positive and before the debacle against China.With every subsequent election, our leaders tend to become weaker.India should consider passing a law that......
The high point of the 19 Shastri months was the 22-day war that he fought against great odds and won in principle, even if military historians often call it a stalemate. Pakistan saw a great......
Because of his proximity to Indira Gandhi, he was able to intervene directly at the level of the PMO, which he did in the days leading up to the partition of Pakistan in 1971 when he transferred......
Secularism for India does not mean being non-religious but an equal respect to all faiths, but the ”appeasement” government policies of the past made the biggest religion of the country......
IMAGE: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi with Congress MP Shashi Tharoor during the relaunch event of the latter's book Nehru: The Invention of India, in New Delhi, on Tuesday.......
'When the government wants to sell these assets, even if one set of assets gets caught in any quagmire, the whole process will fail.''The entire world is watching us.' IMAGE: Union Finance......
'The Indian economy has become like a car that has the appropriate wheels on one side -- political liberalism -- and scooter wheels -- economic illiberalism -- on the other,' points out T C A......
'It has taken 7-and-a-half years for this government to understand the fundamentals of economics.''If the prime minister wants to leave an imprint, he has to see to it that this succeeds.' IMAGE:......
'The government has realised that the finances of the government are in a precarious state.''We are borrowing to fund the ever-burgeoning revenue deficit.''Then you are paying interest on the fresh......
10 per cent for those who earn up to Rs 30 lakh a year and 25 per cent for those who earn more, suggests T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Business Standard's Budget......
No one deserves the title thespian more than Dilip Kumar, notes Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: Dilip Kumar in the song Suhana Safar Aur Ye Mausam Haseen from Bimal Roy's Madhumati. Photograph: Kind......
Dilip Kumar remained in demand all through his career because he kept reinventing himself in keeping with the changing times in Indian cinema, argues Mohammad Asim Siddiqui. IMAGE: Dilip Kumar and......
Cinema entertains, exhilarates and enlightens. Its ability to relate and inform the viewer through universal, timeless emotions are what contributes to its legacy, now available more easily than......
'He had a continuing interest in life, people, and the society in which he lived,' remembers Shyam Benegal, who collaborated with the polyglot playwright and actor through the 1970s and remained......