AI Takes Over Delhi Election Campaign

From dubbing voices to putting faces with the help of AI, political campaigns are undergoing a Bollywood makeover. Among the favourites is a scene from the Anil Kapoor-starrer Nayak, posted by the......

Time To Shut Down Coaching Classes?

The coaching-tuition-profiteering model built on the back of a broken education system is a scandal and an abomination, and must go, asserts Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Rapid Action Force personnel......

Like Abhimanyu, India trapped in BJP's 'chakravyuh': Rahul

Using the Mahabharat reference as a leitmotif, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Monday claimed that an atmosphere of fear prevails all around with a group of six trapping the......

Regions with real 'vikas' are beyond BJP's reach: Tharoor

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday dismissed the Bharatiya Janata Party's claim of a strong performance in south India in the Lok Sabha polls as a product of its "propaganda mill",......

Why Amit Mitra is important to Mamata

No longer Bengal's finance minister, Amit Mitra, Mamata's principal chief advisor, will still advise and aid the 'chief minister and finance department on all matters relating to management of......

Gandhigiri in Silicon Valley wins the day

After two weeks of protests by high-skilled immigrants over a broken promise to expedite the processing of green cards, the White House has approached immigration advocacy groups to work out a......

Budget: A victory for pragmatism and realism

The minister learns from Europe's economic suicide, and pulls off a difficult balancing act, says Claude Smadja.Let us be realistic: looking at it from the perspective of a foreign observer not......

'Some of the growth rate figures are spurious and misleading'

'The whole land acquisition bill is a part of the payback to the corporate' 'It is the joke of the century, if the BJP were to pretend that it was a clean government' 'Maharashtra is busy banning......

Review: An Insignificant Man raises hopes. Once again

An Insignificant Man gets full marks for its originality, says Utkarsh Mishra. If the trailer of An Insignificant Man left you with the impression that it was a 'propaganda film' and an 'image......

Lata Mangeshkar & Sivaji Ganesan: An unusual bond

Not many know that the legendary actor Sivaji Ganesan was a rakhi brother to both Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle, and their families have long shared a close relationship. As we celebrate......

Review: From Sydney With Love is best avoided

From Sydney With Love is a half-baked tribute to Aditya Chopra and his tour de force Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, writes Preeti AroraThere is a serious malaise affecting most newbie directors in......

Review: Wake Up Sid works well

Coming of age is never an instant experience. It takes time, a sweet amount at that, before realisation hits. As if on cue, Wake Up Sid follows the tempo of its eponymous hero. There's not much of......

The PT Teacher Behind Two WPL Stars

'Today when I see them talking to people from different countries confidently, I realise that education does not come from classrooms alone but from life experiences too.' IMAGE: K M Elsamma,......

Sports Shorts: Delhi government yet to honour CWG star Manika with cash reward

IMAGE: India's rising table tennis star Manika Batra meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. Photograph: Kind courtesy, Manika Batra/Twitter Table tennis star Manika Batra, arguably......