As multilateral negotiations have paused, multi-national corporates have increasingly become aggressive; and our bureaucrats restless.
Maybe the Republicans too will find their saviour in a fresh-faced minority with a funny name and unlikely story: Piyush 'Bobby' Jindal, the Indian-American son of a Hindu named Raj, who became America's first Indian American governor (in Louisiana, of all places), converting to Christianity and pledging to restore Reaganism along the way. 2012, Obama vs Jindal. Wouldn't that be something, asks Matthew Schneeberger
In Delhi this December, we understood how many others from Kashmir to Koodankulam have long felt, says Shivam Vij
Today, an engineer from an average college can easily land an IT job. What about the biotech graduate, asks Rashmi Bansal?
To win the war against the Maoist insurgency, the underlying issues of tribal alienation needs to be addressed first, writes Shyam G Menon.
Shailja Mehta discusses how a health concern taught her to reach out and communicate with her family in the right way.
'This city will prove its true greatness not by 'getting on with it'; but, rather, by holding accountable those who perpetrated this act and those who allowed it to happen.'
The Gujarat genocide in 2002, resulting in the killing of nearly 1500 innocent citizens, mostly from India's major minority community, and the subsequent pervasive subversion of governmental machinery to sabotage justice delivery to riot victims, has to be understood as a man-made disaster, writes R B Sreekumar
Cows holding up traffic are irresistible lens fodder for a director out to find the 'authentic' Indian experience.
It's time that we, as a nation, stopped fearing failure and waiting for instant success in our space ventures. Let us instead applaud the journey, even if it comes at a certain cost to the taxpayer.
'I suspect, despite all the asanas and the pranayamas, the great yoga master has still some prejudices to uncrumple.'
What you need is a methodology for breakthrough management thinking. While innovation can never be entirely scripted, it is possible to increase the odds of a "eureka" moment by assembling the right ingredients. In the case of management innovation, these ingredients include:
Rajeev Srinivasan on how insurgents and terrorists seem to have more human rights than the average citizen in India.
Senior Earth Institute economist and Dr Nirupam Bajpai is a global vagabond. He flits between the Big Apple, interior India, Mumbai, New Delhi and other developing countries in Sub-Sahara Africa and Asia, faithfully collecting endless data to feed his continuous research on improving developing economies. His special beat: Any of India's 600,000 varied villages.
Senior Earth Institute economist and Dr Nirupam Bajpai is a global vagabond. He flits between the Big Apple, interior India, Mumbai, New Delhi and other developing countries in Sub-Sahara Africa and Asia, faithfully collecting endless data to feed his continuous research on improving developing economies. His special beat: Any of India's 600,000 varied villages.
Indian democracy is fast turning into by the elite, for the elite and of the elite, says M R Venkatesh.
Sadly there's so much of focus on one person and this one kidney transplant ring. Actually, it is a global phenomenon.
The founder of Infosys Foundation speaks about her passion and about her husband Narayana Murthy.
Here is the third part of a series wherein we publish reader stories concerning ragging in colleges.
Exploring the lush backwaters, dabbling in local cooking and sirodhara are just a few of Kerala's charms
Valmiki knew Ram to be a human, a noble man, the best of his era and in his time wrote the Ramayana as both were contemporary. He has also shown Ram to possess human traits and emotions, just like any ordinary person. We, in our blind faith, have accentuated the question marks on the historicity of Ram and Ramayana by treating Ramayana like a fable and depicting its noble characters as birds and animals.
Judgment of Justice John Hansen following Harbhajan Singh's ICC Code of Conduct appeal hearing.
'I don't think the Indo-US relationship can be built on the principle that India is going to be, essentially, a piece of American strategy involving China,' feels foreign policy expert Rajan Menon.
Rediff Readers report on Terror Tuesday and its aftermath
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