'You will still want to take all the necessary precautions, which is the right thing to do.' IMAGE: Madhura Samel, 81, walks with Om Rajesh Yadav, a volunteer from the Robin Hood Army, a......
'The Naxalite strategy is to periodically attack police forces to provoke a reaction.''Once the security forces over-react and cause suffering to innocents by high-handed actions, the people will......
The roots of the problem lies in the alienation of the tribals. Extreme sensitivity is required to tackle the issues involved. Rough and ready methods of using force may prove counterproductive in......
On Monday, Huffington Post, an 'internet newspaper' owned by the $2.3 billion AOL, launched its India edition in association with India's largest media firm, the Rs 6,700 crore or Rs 67 billion......
‘Unfortunately, our political leaders have consistently chosen to ignore this potential of the people.’ ‘Right from Indira Gandhi to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the political......
A film with a one-line plot needed a lot more pizzazz, whistle-worthy dialogue and a large-than-life, invincible protagonist. Karki makes a Rajinikanth kind of actioner (Bhaiyya Ji fights with a......
Shamshera's problem is a shocking inability to support its bombastic ideas with gripping drama.The result is the wastage of not one but two Ranbir Kapoors, observes Sukanya Verma. There was a time......
1996, recapped. 25 years ago, Madras became Chennai, Dolly the sheep was successfully cloned, Doordarshan combatted aggressive satellite cable networking, Indian politicians engaged in a crazy game......
One of Fearless Nadia's most famous scenes had her fighting the bad guys on top of a speeding train!How well do you know this legend of Hindi cinema who apparently Kangana Ranaut's character in......
If Irrfan could have been our finest professor of empirical philosophy, and Nawaz is our foremost poet of that space halfway between the gutter and the stars, then Jaideep Ahlawat has to be our......
‘There is a Jack Warner or two in every Caribbean parliament today’ Activists from advocacy group Avaaz demonstrate near the Hallenstadion, in Zurich. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters......