Prime Minister Narendra Modi had invited ASEAN leaders to be the chief guests.

'There are many cases where a company hits the wall because of reasons not under their control.' 'If you do not understand and appreciate that and paint all promoters with the same brush then definitely you are inviting trouble.'

'Public sector banks are like an extended arm of the government.' 'They rush to rescue certain sectors or they rush to invest in certain sectors to prop up the economy which the private banks don't.'

An Insignificant Man gets full marks for its originality, says Utkarsh Mishra.

'The surgical strikes were not meant to deter or stop infiltration.' 'It was meant to create a kind of uncertainty in the minds of Pakistani military commanders.' 'By using hard power we've created an option which was not there earlier.'

'The Chinese media was beside itself with rage that how can a country with one-fifth of its economic power and maybe one-third of its military power stand up to them.'

Non-performers were not punished, performers were not rewarded, points out Utkarsh Mishra.

With GDP down by 2 per cent, while 99 per cent of banned notes make way back to the banking system, whom did demonetisation benefit?

Saraswati spreads across 600 million light years and is four billion light years away from Earth.

The day the ratings of television channels showing 'aliens stealing goats from earth' start falling, they will scramble to change their content.

Right actions might help reduce this trust deficit. But what we have today is over- enthusiastic vigilante groups targeting minorities over beef or 'love jihad', against whom the government does little apart from meek condemnation, says Utkarsh Misgra.

'I hope he will continue to be what he is. And doing so, he won't be much different from those whose example he is being given right now,' says Utkarsh Mishra.

Narendra Modi is set to address a huge political rally in Lucknow in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh on Monday, January 2. The PM is expected to make some big announcements at the rally, his first after the 50-day deadline on demonetisation curbs expires. Utkarsh Mishra imagines what Modi will say at the rally, dubbed as Lucknow's 'biggest ever.'

A Mumbai man did a cricket puzzle in three days that had troubled Sir Don Bradman for about two decades.

Utkarsh Mishra imagines what is it that Baba Gandhi would say if he got the chance.

A lowdown on the who's who of the Yadav family.