'Painting opponents as the enemy of the State, using fake news, making wild allegations about rival parties, curtailing civil liberties and challenging the Constitution itself are worrying......
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is not widely known in India. A Frenchmen of Jewish origin, his fame rests on his novel Remembrance of Things Past. It is considered, after Tolstoy's War and Peace, the......
My fellow columnist Gordon G Chang made a piquant point in this space last week in his preview of Hillary Clinton's trip to East Asia -- her first trip abroad as secretary of state. Chiding her for......
A 27-year-old South African AIDS activist on Thursday withdrew rape charges against her compatriot and high court judge Sirajuddin Mohammed Ibrahim Desai currently lodged in a Mumbai jail.In a......
When Maulvi Abbas Ansari took over aschairman of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference last month from Abdul Gani Bhat, many in the media were surprised. The little known Ansari's initial statements......
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has to deal with 3 powerful enemies: the media, the political establishment, and business houses. Dear Mr Kejriwal,Every once in a while the world witnesses a......
Kareena has a question... Vidya makes the sari look so good... the film Anil Kapoor is watching... Photograph: Kind courtesy Karisma Kapoor/Instagram Sara Ali Khan and Karisma Kapoor wrap up the......
'What I see in Bollywood is that there’s this assembly line -- there’s a lyrics writer, there’s a composer, then there’s playback singer who is selected on mutual......
Madiba has been played both by the veteran American actor as well as the exciting British actor of Ghanaian-Nigerian descent. Nelson Mandela passed into the ages on Thursday night. The Nobel......
Sanjay Dutt, currently out on bail after having been sentencedto six years of rigorous imprisonment, had nothing but jail coupons to offer to his sisters when they visited him in jail on Raksha......
His directorial debut Om Jai Jagadish -- starring Anil Kapoor, Fardeen Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Mahima Chaudhary, Urmila Matondkar, Tara Sharma and Waheeda Rehman -- last year did not create the......