What is Biden trying to tell India?

It is difficult to recall an Indian minister in modern times pushing back at the US publicly, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar with......

How Blood Donors India Saves Lives!

'Our network somehow saves 3,000 lives every year, but there's so much more to do, as every death due to shortage of blood is easily avoidable.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Vegasjon/Wikimedia......

'BJP is advocating a Hindu Rashtra aggressively'

'Tamil Nadu is a paradox. We have more places of Hindu worship per square kilometres than any other place in the world.''We break more coconuts for religious reasons everyday than any other place......

Pak attacks: Imran can't escape responsibility

'Imran cannot escape responsibility for providing a mask to the Pakistan army to engage in unlawful activities and to wage aggression after India retaliated to the terrorist attack,' says......

'Economy well placed to capitalise on recovery in 2021'

'The financial sector's performance in the first two quarters was a revelation.' 'It clearly showed the clean-up had been done in the past one-and-a-half years and that capital brought in was......

'Achche Din has become an albatross around Modi's neck'

'The middle class stood by the BJP, especially after demonetisation, and they expected something in return.''Some section of the BJP believes the middle class is condemned to vote for the BJP as......

Demonetisation: The Political Fallout

Despite the indisputable facts demonetisation and its pain is yet to have a quantifiable political backlash.But this is provided the government can limit the damage to the next one week.Aditi......

Tax, spend and be doomed: A lesson from France

GST will make it easier for governments to spend more, says T C A Srinivasa Raghavan. Image: A labourer pushes a handcart loaded with sacks containing tea packets, towards a supply truck at a......

S P Balasubrahmanyam's TOP 50 Songs

Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire. S P Balasubrahmanyam passed away in his 75th year, and so we celebrate the singer with 75 of his top songs, in a multi-part......

Gulabo Sitabo: Bachchan's finest performance in 30 years

'It's a performance that puts the Bachchan hysteria to shame,' observes Sreehari Nair. IMAGE: Amitabh Bachchan as Mirza with Ayushmann Khurrana as Bankey Rastogi in a scene from Shoojit Sircar's......

It's amazing such movies are being made in India

'Movie plots clearly don't excite director Dileesh Pothan as much as true stories where life had come dizzyingly close to becoming like a movie and then, had fused back with life.''This means that......

Tamasha: Some genuine frights but too much orchestrated silliness

There are no real people in Tamasha -- there are only character-types written in little pink balloon-letters, all floating in cloudland, feels Sreehari Nair. The experience of watching......

Kolkata 2001: The Odyssey, viewed from the sidelines

20 years ago this week, India and Australia played one of the greatest Test matches in cricket history.Sreehari Nair relives the sound and the fury of that unforgettable game at the Eden Gardens.......

The man behind Federer's success at 36...

Pierre Paganini may be the most important reason Roger has the best record in men's tennis in the past 12 months, says Rahul Jacob. IMAGE: Roger Federer with the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup after......

Men's tennis seems so middle-aged...

'Not only are four of the top five fathers, but Federer famously injured a knee, weakened by years of twisting and turning on tennis courts, early this year while giving his elder pair of twins a......

Darren Sammy did not smile

IMAGE: West Indies Captain Darren Sammy with the ICC World Twenty20 Cup at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata, April 3, 2016. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images   'He spoke to the fact that his West......

Prem Panicker: MS smiled, for the second time today...

'Probably because he was aware that this was his 100th ODI win as captain. Or probably because, in the first of its knock-out games, his team had produced the sort of all-round display that induces......