The point made by sociologist M N Srinivas, that it represented a Sanskritic act that was linked to caste, is never raised in Indian debates and the disapproval of drink is almost universal, notes......
'I have been in the Dalit movement for 27 years, I have not heard of R N Kovind's views on the Dalit agenda.''He is a BJP man among Dalits, not a Dalit man in the BJP.' What does Ram Nath Kovind's......
We have our own problems for sure and they are not trivial, but for now, our economy is in not too bad a shape, our politics is as personality-driven and authoritarian as that of most countries in......
'KRN's journey from a humble cottage in Uzhavoor to Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi was no less spectacular than that of Abraham Lincoln from the log cabin to the White House,' notes Ambassador T P......
Kocheril Raman Narayanan, the only Dalit and the only Malayali to have held the Presidency, often described himself as a 'citizen President' and a 'working President'.Born in humble circumstances......
'How do you deliver wealth when you don't have the slightest idea about it?' asks T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com One of the biggest problems that the BJP has is......
Bliss it must have been in that dawn to be alive, but to be an economist working for Jawaharlal Nehru must have been heaven (with apologies to Wordsworth)! No retired bureaucrat around to say you......
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who will travel to The Philippines for the ASEAN Summit next week, inaugurated the third London School of Economics Asia Forum at the Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi, on......
Dhirubhai Hirachand Ambani, the legendary founder of Reliance Industries Ltd, had a huge circle of friends belonging to different professions and businesses.For a man who didn't go to college,......
On his birth centenary on May 2013, veteran actor Balraj Sahni's grandniece, Malavika Sangghvi, recounts his extraordinary but sad life.The world knew him as Balraj Sahni, the celebrated......