The Star Gazer Stars At TIME Gala

At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most......

Supreme Court On Article 370: A Landmark Judgment

We must heed what the CJI has said. Challenging every judgment of the central government is inviting chaos, asserts Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: A five-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief......

Over 260 citizens urge CJI to act against Udhayanidhi for 'hate speech'

Over 260 eminent citizens, including former judges and bureaucrats, have written to Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud urging him to take cognisance of DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin's......

Has Udhayanidhi Shot INDIA Alliance in the Foot?

Udayanidhi has handed over to the BJP one real issue to draw the line between it and the INDIA alliance, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Udhayanidhi Stalin speaks to the media in Chennai,......

6 states hold key to India's demographic dividend

Perhaps half-way through India’s demographic transition, what is the outlook for the future? Robert Malthus wrote his famous An Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798. In that book his......

Mudra Bank is more politics and less economics

Even if Mudra steps in to play its main role of refinancing at some stage, the responsibility for the bad loans remains with the banks, notes Debashis Basu. About a month ago, Business......

Where are the jobs? Millions of unemployed still live in hope

Mr Modi has inherited a system that taxes businessmen and fritters the money away over ministries, departments, divisions, commissions, companies, authorities and other institutions,......

Trying to make sense of India's startling GDP numbers

The fundamental problem is that the macro data have little connect with indicators on the ground, says Abheek Barua. Image: Macro data have little connect with indicators on the ground.......

7 Cliches Of Movie Criticism & Reporting

This isn't a hatchet job, and my excuse for the exercise is my feeling that when you invert some of the clichés mentioned here, you might just arrive at the portals of genuine movie-making......

Bloody Brothers Review

Bloody Brothers is watchable, especially in the scenes of its two lead actors trying to work out something from the puny material given to them.Jaideep Ahlawat, who suggests roiling energy and......

10 Films that Amazed Me at Cannes

The 74th Cannes Film Festival ended with the jury -- headed by Spike Lee -- handing out awards to a number of international films from France, Iran, Finland, Israel, Norway, Japan and the US. But......

'OTT, cinema can co-exist without overpowering the other'

'OTT is the present of the entertainment industry and it can be the future as well.' IMAGE: E Niwas, right, with Jimmy Sheirgill. Photograph: Kind courtesy E Niwas/Instagram E Niwas -- who has......

MS Dhoni: Gets his timing right one last time

Photograph: Kind courtesy CSK/Twitter If Chennai Super Kings is a film, then Mahendra Singh Dhoni is its screenplay writer, director, main protagonist with a fine producer in Narayanaswami......

Soccer Extras: Sterling wins Football Writers' award

IMAGE: Manchester City's Raheem Sterling with the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year award. Photograph: Kind courtesy, Raheem Sterling/Twitter Manchester City forward Raheem......

FIFA U-17 World Cup: What the tournament means for India

It would be unfair to expect India to bedazzle crowds with eye-catching football. This team is built around stability. But despite the talent, progress from a group that also includes -- apart from......

'My destiny was to write about the game'

'That has always been my ambition -- to take the reader behind the scenes, to the places he was not allowed to visit, but which I had the privilege of entering.'Haresh Pandya remembers Ted Corbett,......

'Cricket needs to wake up. But how?'

'Put cricket, first and foremost, at the centre of every decision you take.''The bottom line must always be the sport that we love.'Rahul Dravid as eloquent as always in his M A K Pataudi Memorial......