Pompeo coming to India with American goodies

So, how does Pompeo's check list look like?In a broad sense, he is coming here 'to make sure that we have economic openness'; to ensure that 'we have to deliver'; to understand that 'we have to......

What reality will replace the dream of 1947?

'Our prime minister manifests a vision for India to be great and powerful, but the modernity required -- of thinking, attitudes, behaviour -- seems alien, if not abhorrent, to his constituency and......

Sheena Bora trial: Was the driver lying?

Trepidation made its home firmly on his face on Thursday, announcing its presence with lines of anxiety and the repeated jumpy widening of his eyes.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the Sheena......

Ashwin Mahesh: Alert Public & Public Policy

For twenty years now, if not more, we have remembered the green revolution with pride. Throughout most of that period, we have heard boasts of abundance, and rarely a word of scarcity. In recent......

10 Classic Malayalam Films On OTT

There's a peevish quality to all the films on this list, which is fitting, because peevishness is the defining characteristic of most Malayalis. These films, even at their saddest, darkest and......

Does Manisha Koirala look like Nargis Dutt?

Look who plays Sanju's mom. Yet another character has been revealed from Rajkumar Hirani's Sanju. The new poster features Manisha Koirala as the late Nargis Dutt, the legendary actress and Sanjay......

Why Decoupled Just Doesn't Work

The failure of Decoupled is that, as it deals almost solely in 'snapshots of insight', it fails to showcase how life flows, how the world goes round, how things unfold, feels Rohit Sathish Nair.......

'She is in my thoughts all the time'

June 1 is a special day for Sunil Dutt. It marks the 75th birth anniversary of his late wife, thelegendary actress Nargis, who passed into the ages in May 1981. Dutt, who was recently appointed as......