'Unless India ups the ante, Beijing will continue to believe its transgressions are cost free and will feel encouraged to do more of the same.' IMAGE: A Bofors gun at the Tawang sector near the......
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......
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......
'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......
'It is time India thought big not only about its global clout politically and diplomatically, but also act its size against pin-pricking by anti national elements,' says Group Captain Murli Menon......
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......
India is a fairly stable economy; so the boat will rock, but won't overturn. If all goes well, India should achieve 7.5 per cent GDP growth in 2015-16, notes Omkar Goswami. Image: The boat......
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,......
Goldman Sachs has emerged from the market bust as a trading colossus. New Chief Lloyd Blankfein must fuel growth -- and avoid an unforeseeable blowup. No wonder this nebbishy Master of the Universe......
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,......
'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......
A 36 line review for a film best left alone:Why can't directors make up their mind?Isn't there a difference between farce and thrill?Abbas-Mastan disagree; burden the undersignedWith slapstick, a......
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......