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We Are In An Era Of Puppets And Puppeteers

'As we enter 2025, it must be acknowledged that there is a convergence of capital, influential people (from business and politics) and technology deciding the destiny of others in the name of......

Pioneer of Indian circus Gemini Sankaran dies at 99 in Kerala

Gemini Sankaran, whose Gemini Circus enthralled many generations of Indians with entertainment consisting of trained animal acts and exhibitions of human skill and daring, has died, family sources......

Is Election Commission Scared Of Modi?

This election will be remembered for being the first election where the Election Commission failed to take action on gross violations involving the ruling party that repeatedly used religion,......

Is Sushant's death more important than India's crises?

'I cannot remember a time in my life when we had such economic strife, such levels of unemployment, a national epidemic and the enemy inside our house and such little interest in these and a focus......

PM does not know pain of losing children: Shaheen Bagh dadi

The "Dadi of Shaheen Bagh" on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not understand the pain of losing children, as speakers at an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act rally in Kolkata called......

Fate of smaller public offerings uncertain

The great Indian IPO bazar is set to take off with a slew of big IPOs hitting the market or ready to do so. The big ticket PSU offerings ONGC, IPCL, GAIL, CMC, IBP and Dredging Corporation of India......

Budget tips for Chidambaram

Come February, it is Budget time again. Elsewhere I have characterised the event as the 'Great Indian Circus.'Speculations on the policy changes, the entertainment and hype provided by both......

No end to this circus called Budget

For how many more years will the annual Budget circus continue in its current form? This is a question often asked at post-Budget seminars held across the country every year around this time.......

Is the Fashion Week just hype?

It's that time of the year when the creative and the copyist congregate under one marquee; flashbulbs and bubbly are popped; and backslapping is in as much evidence as backstabbing.The fourth......

Nobel Prize, World Bank Chief... anything is possible for R3

'With his envious academic record, extraordinary research calibre and unparalleled work experience, we can trust him to become the first Indian -- fully Indian, not one of those Americans of Indian......

'Katrina is not an item girl, Aamir just lets you be'

"I was scared every single day of shooting Malang,” choreographer Vaibhavi Merchant says of her work in the Rs 5 crore song that features in the upcoming film, Dhoom 3. The song, picturised......

You Must Watch This Heart-Breaking Film

'Yellow Bus is a heart-breaking story based on a real incident and will strike a chord with mothers across the world.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Tannishtha Chatterjee/Instagram Tannishtha......

Can Prithviraj score a hat trick with Tamaar Padaar?

Prithviraj’s London Bridge, which was his first release of 2014 turned out to be a damp squib. But he came back with a bang in his last two releases in 7th Day and Saptamasree Taskaraha. Both......

Parineeti Chopra: National Award feels great

Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrities are tweeting.The year's National Film Award winners includes many faces from Hindi cinema . Bollywood stars took to Twitter to congratulate their......

Tannishtha Chatterjee bags a film with Brett Lee

Un-Indian is a romantic comedy, slated for release this year. Actress Tannishtha Chatterjee has been cast in a film called Un-Indian with Australian cricketer Brett Lee. A romantic......

Carlsen's blunt message to Gukesh: 'I'm out'

'I am not part of this circus anymore' IMAGE: D Gukesh stated that he would love to fight it out against Magnus Carlsen at some point. Photograph: Kind Courtesy Chin An/FIDE World number......

Events That Changed Indian Cricket Forever

Would there have been an incomparable batsman named Sachin Tendulkar had Doordarshan not telecast Guide one summer afternoon?A fascinating excerpt from Abhishek Mukherjee and Joy Bhattacharjya's......

IPL and the great Indian sporting revival

And no, the commercial sporting leagues didn't cause the drought, says Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: The opening game of IPL 9 at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, April 9, 2016: Ishant Sharma celebrates......

Was IPL a distraction to hide governance failure?

'It is no accident that politicians strive to control sports bodies, and get their names associated with popular sports, sometimes by renaming stadiums after themselves,' observes Devangshu Datta.......

Despite its problems, why the IPL continues to fascinate

Not Out! is a brilliant analysis of the IPL that explains why it alternates between thrill and scandal, says Dhruv Munjal. IMAGE: Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli. Photograph: BCCI......

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