Where do Vijay and his TVK expect to get their votes from?Vijay has a huge fan following among women, but will they automatically become his voters like they had done for MGR's AIADMK, asks N......
It is in circumstances like this that the Constitution becomes extremely important. It reminds us that we have a commitment towards higher human values to fulfil, a path to get back......
I have a bit of a personal dilemma: I have a soft corner for Shashi Tharoor, but I do like Rajeev Chandrasekhar's pitch, confesses Rajeev Srinivasan. IMAGE: Dr Shashi Tharoor, the Congress Lok......
Popular Leftist and former Students' Federation of India leader Simon Britto Rodrigues, who became paralysed after a campus clash in Kochi in 1983, passed away due to a heart attack......
'Our Left is squeamish about democracy. They are so mechanical they have only dogma.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com "It came in the newspapers that I was expelled from the party. My......
A leaked US diplomatic cable has revealed that Home Minister P Chidambaram, in a discussion with American Ambassador Timothy Roemer, had said that "India could achieve 11-12 per cent (GDP) growth......
Kerala finance minister Thomas Isaac says the Leftist government in the state wants to develop an egalitarian society where there are no capitalists. Dr Thomas Isaac, the 58-year-old finance......
'Curiously, Pinarayi's approach, stressing the imperatives of development, is robustly backed by Nitin Gadkari.''I stand next only to Gadkari, one of the few outstanding ministers in the Modi......
The Kerala government has decided to drop the Cochin industrial water supply scheme and the Kanjikode industrial water supply scheme utilising the Periyar and Malampuzha waters, respectively, from......
A homoeopathic state of mind pervades our thinking in governance and infrastructure-building.Do it in small, harmless doses, but nothing bitter, sharp, or bloody, says Shekhar Gupta. Homoeopathy,......
The Naxal movement has such a complex history that several books have been written to understand it. Bastar: The Naxal Story seeks to reduce it to bullet points and stereotypes, observes......
Looking back on my brief life as a film critic, I can see clearly the key role that subtexts and their uncovering had played in my getting started on this path. It was, over those many casual......
Rasputin is long-delayed, and not meant for today's times, says Paresh C Palicha. You understand the importance of timing when you watch long-delayed Malayalam film Rasputin.......
Here's a look at what's happening in the world of Malayalam cinema. Malayalam singer Amrutha Suresh has lashed out at reports that her marriage to actor Bala is on the rocks and the......
Paresh C Palicha says it is better to watch a re-run of an old film on TV than Veendum Kannur.There were times when political thrillers used to give us goosebumps. There was the hero fighting for......