Manipur: BJP's Formidable Internal Security Challenge

There are three things you never do in a small North East state: Undermine local leaders, divide and rule, push homogenisation, asserts Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Union Home Minister Amit A Shah meets......

Full text: President Murmu's address to Parliament's Budget Session

‘Wherever in the world there is political instability, those countries are beset with severe crises today. But India is in a much better position than the rest of the world due to the......

The RSS Has Never Been So Weak!

Political power has now been outsourced fully to the Modi government.Even if the RSS is still, in principle, his guru, nobody would dare to whisper a word of advice to Modi, forget some whiff of......

Prez to lead nation in celebrating R-Day; 6 Agniveers to take part in parade

Six 'Agniveers' will be part of the Navy's marching contingent during the 74th Republic Day celebrations on Thursday when the ceremonial parade will take place on Kartavya Path amid patriotic......

'How many of us really know our prime minister?'

'We think we know him because he's written about every day.''But how many of us know him as a person?' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi performs puja at the Ambaji temple in Banaskantha,......

What inspired Rangoon?

Did the human drama provoked by the Japanese invasion of Burma and the Indian exodus from Rangoon inspire director Vishal Bhardwaj's forthcoming epic? IMAGE: Saif Ali Khan in Rangoon. The railway......

Bose: A great patriotic film

I studied history at the college Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose went to. When our studious seniors ragged us, some of us were given pieces of chalk to go mark the staircase on which Netaji slapped a......

'Netaji's romance 'historically distorted!'

Director Shyam Benegal's film, Bose -- The Forgotten Hero, starring Sachin Khedekar as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, is raising a storm in the patriot's homeland, WestBengal.Deponents to the M K......