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India's New Trilemma

...Kids, jobs, emigration, notes Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com "Aren't you kids going to have children?" I asked one of my nieces who had come for a one-week......

NRIs: Pop Nationalism To Identity Supremacy

Brand India's societal divisions and distortions have remained as much relevant in 'liberal' America and Europe as it still is in the structurally stratified Indian society of the 21st century,......

'What Gives Me Hope About India Is...'

'Our civil society here is vibrant, and courageous, although it is beaten up and beaten down, repeatedly.' IMAGE: A Tiranga walkathon on the eve of Independence Day in Mumbai, August 14, 2023.......

Tharoor explains how BJP can lose 50 Lok Sabha seats in 2024

It will be 'impossible' for the Bharatiya Janata Party to replicate its 2019 electoral triumph in 2024, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said, adding it is 'conceivable' that the ruling......

The Roots of the Taliban

Internal strife and tribalism is endemic to Afghanistan, notes Colonel Anil A Athale (retd). IMAGE: Abdul Latif Mansoor, left, Shahabuddin Delawar, centre, and Suhail Shaheen -- members of the......

US-China trade war: What India must do

'If we play our cards right, we may even benefit from the competition between the US and China as seen from increased investment from each of these countries into India.''The size of our market......

Viral Acharya needs a 'Bharat Darshan'

'Tilting at the government in English in front of India may make him feel like Joan of Arc, but without a feel for Bharat he will merely be Don Quixote,' says S Muraleedharan, former managing......

How Modi can solve India's Poverty Problem

'Just as the BJP has been harnessing the power of religion for political purposes, Modi needs to harness the power of religious and corporate institutions for poverty alleviation,' says T C A......

50 years later, will Moore's Law last?

A 2005 photograph of Gordon E Moore While chips have become ubiquitous, Moore’s Law has remained a self-fulfilling prophecy even half a century later. Not bad for an industry where the time......

Shivkar Talpade: First man to fly an aircraft?

The facts remain cloaked in mystery, but the legend goes that Talpade had created a flying machine powered by mercury and solar energy, and based on ideas outlined in Vedic texts. Image: Wright......

Indian Film Makes HISTORY At Cannes

IMAGE: Director Payal Kapadia, the Grand Prix award winner for the film All We Imagine as Light, at the closing ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, May 25, 2024. Photograph: Clodagh......

Do Aur Do Pyaar Review: Vidya-Pratik's Breezy Equation

Pratik Gandhi's emotional range makes him a treat to watch while Vidya is as wild as she's wise, observes Sukanya Verma. IMAGE: Ileana D'Cruz, Pratik Gandhi, Vidya Balan and Sendhil Ramamurthy in......

'I wanted to write about a young woman's sexual awakening'

'I went to a school in Baroda, where if the boys harassed us, the teachers pulled the girls aside and said, "Oh, your skirts are too short".''They made us feel ashamed of having any sexual feelings......

'No Time Till The Oscar Storm Passes'

'We have to do everything in our power to get as many Academy members to watch the film as possible.''After that, I am confident, my film will speak for itself.' IMAGE: A scene from Chhello Show.......

Another Honour For The Amazing Julie Andrews

Many of us in India have watched Sound Of Music many times and loved its story and music, so it is wonderful to see its star Julie Andrews honoured at the American Film Institute with its Life......

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