How Modi Lost While Winning

For the first time in his political career, he failed to carry his party to even a working majority -- and again, for the first time in his career, he finds himself in a situation where he cannot......

'As a nation we don't learn lessons from our past'

Image: Muslims in Meerut stage a protest demanding justice in the 1987 Hashimpura massacre case. Photograph: PTI Photo 'Communal killings take place routinely in our country and yet we don't ever......

Befriending the US while tempering China: Can India do it?

Even as the United States snuggles closer to India with the thinly veiled objective of containing China, the Indian strategy is to avoid alienating either nation. This may prove wise, since......

Does the military threaten democracy?

An insecure political class, with little knowledge of the military, has unquestioningly internalised the fear that a powerful tri-service chief would threaten democracy, says Ajai Shukla. At the......

The world's next tax haven?

When Slobodan Milosevic died in his jail cell in March, he left behind an $800 million mystery. Between 1992 and 2000 the Serbian strongman spirited at least that amount, much of it in cash, out of......

Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part One Review: Dazzling!

No matter how impossible the mission seems, we know Tom Cruise will get the job done as we eagerly await his next daring stunt, cheers Mayur Sanap. We are seven films deep into Tom Cruise's......

PIX: Anil Kapoor, Parineeti at Mission Impossible 5 screening

Mission Impossible 5 comes to India. While the India premiere of Tom Cruise starrer Mission Impossible 4 was a star studded affair, the popular franchise's fifth installment was screened in Mumbai......

Tom Cruise breaks ankle; Mission Impossible 6 on hold

Injury-caution for Tom Cruise?He throws it out of the window before you can say Mission Impossible! So it happened. Tom Cruise injured himself performing a stunt for the latest Mission: Impossible.......

It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a MAN ON A PLANE!

One of the most thrilling scenes of Mission Impossible Rogue Nation is when Tom Cruise is latching on to the door of a flying airbus. Famous for doing his own stunts, the actor performed the feat......