Russia's Unease Over India-US Proximity

The scaling up of the India-US strategic partnership to the level of non-NATO ally with defence deals, sharing and transfer of defence technology, interoperability, joint collaboration and joint......

Manipur: Political Will, Legal Process Need Of Hour

No process can offer a panacea for ethnic conflict, but there are times at which a legal process could work to defuse violence, asserts Supreme Court lawyer Devvrat. IMAGE: Women burn effigies......

Pinarayi Vijayan's Saga With Black

In Kerala, the use of black ranges from convenience to strictures by community and religion to fashion and personal choice.One would have to be really insecure or too fond of the well settled life......

Nothing Surprising About Agnipath

Agnipath may be an exercise to address the genuine needs of the armed forces.But overall, it betrays the tendency to use the military and paramilitary for employment generation and shaping a......

DON'T WORRY About The Rupee!

The currency market won't care for our moans, groans, cries and sighs.The rupee will find its own level, explains Tamal Bandyopadhyay. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com This is an......

Omicron impact: Two-wheeler sales take a severe knocking

Domestic two-wheeler sales, which were already struggling to recover from a slowdown and then the pandemic’s first and second wave, have been hit further by the Omicron wave. After a very......

Business Families and their UGLY succession battles

The world is full of family businesses that withered away with the passing of generations, creating much bitterness and ill will.Entire clans that used to be household names have become pale......

Why Voda Idea's options for survival are narrowing

Analysts are questioning whether VIL could continue to function as a going concern, raising the spectre of a private sector duopoly of Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio in the mobile market. Vodafone......

Jagame Thandhiram is an Important Failure

Jagame Thandhiram is a failure alright, but it is certainly an interesting one, given that both the ideas that it was borne out (twin seeds, if you may) were sure-shot movie ideas on their own,......

'Was I in love with Madhubala?'

'I was attracted to her both as a fine co-star and as a person who had some of the attributes I hoped to find in a woman at that age and time,' confesses Dilip Kumar in his autobiography, Dilip......

Thank God, Amitabh couldn't say no to Hrishi-da

'Hrishi-da often voiced his disenchantment with Bachchan's Angry Young Man persona -- the 'maara-maari', the growth of sidelocks; he even said directors were killing Amitabh the actor and turning......

Pujara@100: All about India's 'spiritual' batting star

Arvind Pujara basks in the success of his son, who is on the cusp of his 100th Test. IMAGE: Cheteshwar Pujara has three double hundreds in Test cricket. Can he add another to his collection in the......

COVID-19 mayhem: What do we do? wonder fans...

IMAGE: A fan attempts to look inside a the stadium before a match. Photograph: Pedro Vilela/Getty Images "What am I supposed to do now?" was a question many sports fans were asking on social......