Interviews
December 24, 2012
'Decisions taken in a spell of emotions can be dangerous'
Minister of State for Home Affairs Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh, the young face of the UPA government, talks to rediff.com's about the protests that rocked the national capital over the gang-rape of a 23-year-old girl in a bus.
December 23, 2012
'Want to ask Putin why Dalai Lama can't get Russia visa'
In an exclusive interview with rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt, Telo Tulku Rinpoche, who heads the biggest Russian monastery in Kalmykia and is the president of Buddhist Union of Kalmykia, says while in New Delhi, they want to attract Putin's attention to an urgent need of visa to the Dalai Lama, despite China's reservations.
December 19, 2012
Exclusive interview! Ahmed Patel, Sonia's trusted aide
Ahmed Patel, the most powerful man in the Congress party after the Gandhis, speaks to Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt in a rare and exclusive interview.
December 18, 2012
Exclusive! Not even a tiny taint on my kurta: Amit Shah
Amit Shah, the prodigal leader of Gujarat and the man who knows Modi like no one else, shares some interesting insights with Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt.
November 19, 2012
'Guj will be among the 1st to implement FDI in retail''So far as FDI is concerned, there are some things one says -- particularly if one is in election mode -- that may or may not be truly reflective of what is eventually going to happen,' says economist Bibek Debroy.
November 17, 2012
'Even if I wear black goggles I am not Dhritharashtra'
Back in January 2006, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray granted the Sena daily newspaper Saamna Editor Sanjay Raut an interview where he spoke his mind about his nephew Raj's departure from the party.
November 14, 2012
'Gujarat development: Roads, electricity, water'
'Gujarat has a very long tradition of Panchayati Raj. And many of the social sector things we are talking about are actually implemented by the panchayats. Decentralisation exists here. Now to decentralise I need the capacity in the panchayats.In most Indian states, we don't have the capacity in the panchayats, which is why governance in India is so very bad. But Gujarat has had this since the 1960s,' economist Bibek Debroy tells Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt.
November 12, 2012
'Muslims have a higher perception of unfairness'
Policies should help Muslims cross the school threshold, says Rakesh Basant, IIM-A professor and author of a study on Indian Muslims
'Gujarat's Muslims are terrified of Modi'With Azadi's Daughter -- The Journey of a Liberal Muslim Woman, Seema Mustafa chronicles her journey from the violence-ridden 1980s when she covered riots in Assam, Punjab and Kashmir. She says the book heavily borrows anecdotes from her personal life, and presents her views on not only her personal journey but also reflects upon the issues that riddle the Indian Muslim.
November 06, 2012
Behind the scenes with Barack Obama
Having travelled extensively with US President Barack, Arun Chaudhary has captured public events and behind-the-scenes moments as well as produced and packaged presidential tapings for the Internet and broadcast television. He speaks to
October 30, 2012
Muslim thinker: Government should withdraw Haj subsidy'The Haj subsidy is a trap used by politicians to curry Muslim votes,' says Abusaleh Shariff, member, Rajinder Sachar Committee. 'Naveen Patnaik doesn't have the authority to expel me'
In 2002, Naveen Patnaik recommended cancellation of a coal block allotted to a south-based company and allotment of the same block to the Jindals, that too for the setting up of a sponge iron plant. What was the urgency and consideration for this,' asks Pyarimohan Mohapatra
October 25, 2012
What if Naxals and jihadis join hands?
Set in 2014, Red Jihad -- a work of fiction -- narrates how a jihadi leader from Pakistan travels to the Red corridor in India and sets up an alliance.
October 24, 2012
'You need credibility like Nitin Gadkari's'
Find out what BJP president Nitin Gadkari has to say about Purti, and Arvind Kejriwal, in this exclusive interview with NDTV Editor Sreenivasan Jain. Reproduced with kind courtesy NDTV Profit
October 22, 2012
Both Cong, BJP culpable; we are for Third Front: Marandi
Babulal Marandi, former chief minister of Jharkhand and leader of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik), tells Gyan Varma that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should be praised for withdrawing support to the United Progressive Alliance.
October 18, 2012
'I was, I am, and will remain anti-Chinese''I know they can put a dagger in our back at any time... It is an experience which marked everybody's life... The fog of war was so thick that nobody could see anything,' remembers Brigadier Amarjit Singh Behl (retd), recounting his role in the 1962 Indo-China war. An endorsement by Clinton is a big deal for this desi
Dr Ami Bera, California physician, who according to conventional wisdom is the only Indian American congressional candidate this time around among all of the community's aspirants who has a good chance of winning, received a major boost when former President Bill Clinton publicly endorsed him in a public rally at the University of California.
October 17, 2012
'Decision to go political was initiated by Anna'
Why did Yogendra Yadav, the well-respected psephologist and astute political thinker, join Arvind Kejriwal's political movement? In this exclusive interview with NDTV Editor , Dr Yadav spells out his reasons. Reproduced with kind courtesy NDTV Profit.
October 15, 2012
'Indian PMs are intelligent. They don't call CBI directly'
Former CBI Director R C Sharma tells Aditi Phadnis that friends in the IAS and the IPS give the agency's directors and officers more trouble than politicians
October 09, 2012
'Congress could get 110 seats in Gujarat this time'
Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee President Arjun Modhwadia tells how the Congress plans to expose the incumbent government and turn the tide in its favour
October 05, 2012
'The Internet cannot be an end in itself'
Sudheendra Kulkarni's book, Music of the Spinning Wheel, was launched in Mumbai on Thursday by a curious mix of luminaries. Abhishek Mande listens in.
'Congress has abdicated its responsibility to Muslims'
'The youth in Assam's relief camps are conveying a message of helplessness. When I told them to file FIRs, they said it will be of no use as nothing will happen. They were not even allowed to cut their standing crop. The police in Assam is hand in glove with the communal elements,' says Asaduddin Owaisi
October 04, 2012
'The deprived are fighting for land. Let world watch'
Nearly 55,000 members of Dalit and tribal communities from villages across India have embarked on a Jan Satyagraha march to demand their land rights.
September 26, 2012
'An indisciplined armed force is extremely dangerous''The bedrock of the armed force is discipline. An indisciplined armed force is not only undesirable, it is extremely dangerous,' says Lieutenant General B T Pandit (retd).
September 21, 2012
'We can now predict future Lashkar attacks'
V S Subrahmanian, researcher at the Maryland University's Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics, headed this project. He along with his co-author, Aaron James, tells Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa in this interview about the project and how it helps in acting as a predictor for attacks by the Lashkar.
'Kudankulam is more a PR disaster than scientific'
As protests rage in Kudankulam and reach a crescendo, V Ponraj, scientific advisor to Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, speaks about the report he and the former Indian President prepared in this interview with rediff.com's .
September 19, 2012
Loved by his peers, yet wanted in 350 cases
For his pains, he has over 350 criminal cases filed against him that include charges of sedition and waging a war against the nation. At the moment, he has an unbailable warrant out in his name.
September 14, 2012
'Indian Muslims have little room for fanaticism'AK Pasha, a professor at the Centre for West Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, discusses the impact of the anti-Islamic film, in an interview with rediff.com's Priyanka 'Being pro-Hindu does not mean you are anti-Muslim'
In this interview with rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa, Vishweshwar Bhat, editor-in-chief of Kannada Prabha, says that the tag of 'pro-Hindu journalist' given to him was not fair. He also points out that someone who has a problem with him should retort with a pen and not with a gun.
September 13, 2012
'Life in RAW is not like the Ek Tha Tiger story'
Former Research and Analysis Wing officer Amar Bhushan's book Escape to Nowhere is nothing short of a thriller. It presents a scary picture of what happened or even happens within India's elite intelligence agency.
September 11, 2012
Royal palace to Ratnagiri, a story of lost glory and exile
King Thibaw, who was crowned in 1878, ruled Burma (now Myanmar) for seven years with his Queen Supayalat. It was a time when the royal family was treated like demigods; they lived richly in the Golden Palace in Mandalay.
September 07, 2012
'Kasab's execution will bring closure to many in Mumbai'Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Milind Deora on why he wrote to the President asking that Kasab be executed soon.
September 06, 2012
'Companies grabbed free coal, now they want to profit'
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Hansraj Ahir, who has been at the forefront in exposing the scandalous free allotment of coal blocks by the United Progressive Alliance, explains the modus operandi of the coal scam in the second and final part of his interview with rediff.com's .
September 02, 2012
Parl function is govt's responsibility: Yashwant SinhaYashwant Sinha, member of Parliament, Bharatiya Janata Party and former finance minister, tells Gyan Varma compromises with the UPA government in Parliament are meaningless
September 01, 2012
'Communal explanation to Assam violence is flawed'
Jaideep Saikia, noted terrorism and conflict analyst who has authored the book, Terror Sans Frontiers tells rediff.com's that the communal explanation -- that is being touted in certain circles amid the recent violence that has erupted in Assam's Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District -- is flawed.
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