Modi like an 'arrogant king': Priyanka to farmers

Likening Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the character of an arrogant king, 'ahankari raja', from stories of yore, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday said he is unable to......

How India must deal with the all-powerful Xi Jinping

'The boundary dispute notwithstanding, China has always had leaders who have been, on the whole, positively disposed towards India.''Given the centrality of the Chinese Communist Party, we need to......

Has Modi run out of gas?

Other strong men have stopped Modi and his hordes in states before, but none of them with a footprint or battle cry to shake up New Delhi, observes Saisuresh Sivaswamy. IMAGE: Narendra Damodardas......

COVID-19: It hasn't gone viral in India

'Our drains are not filled with bodies, our hospitals not run out of beds.''That good news, or absence of expected bad news, is the truth that so many in the international community, and also......

A message for Modi from India's crisis-hit farmers

Farmer interest groups predict that unless the government corrects its agricultural pricing and procurement policy, it will face a political blowback, notes Aditi Phadnis. Image: NDA needs to......

Concerns on China's trade boom

Nothing focuses people's mind on China more than its accumulated foreign exchange reserves. China's reserves rose a record $178 billion in the second quarter of the current year to $2.132 trillion,......

How India can overtake China

What are the lessons from the Chinese economic miracle for India? Who is likely to win the race for economic growth -- the hare or the tortoise? These are the questions I will take up.I have......

Entertainment industry: Big berth of revenue

India's entertainment industry has several emerging revenue options. Indian cinema is big. Indian cinema is small. You could make either of those statements. At the ongoing FICCI FRAMES seminar,......

Shah Rukh Khan's India

'Are we seeing the beginning of the communalising of one of the most iconic film industries in the world?' asks Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. In the late eighties Shah Rukh Khan, a boy from a modest......

Olympic machismo: The tale the medals tell

I am always embarrassed by India's wretched showing in the Olympics, which is a metaphor for the two things that haunt India -- lack of a strategic intent, and lack of leadership. It is not that......