'Modi has moved foreign policy from elite to masses'

'For the first time since I've been following Indian politics, one heard voters talking about India's role on the world stage and the fact that, due to Modi's leadership, India was once again a......

Modi Set To Use G20 Presidency For Domestic Use

Modi on the global stage always comes across as a statesman, counselling peace and amity to world leaders even as his policies at home hurt certain sections, explains Virendra Kapoor. IMAGE: Prime......

Meet the Brazilian guest on Republic Day

As someone with nostalgia for the good cheer and friendly feelings of the Brazilian people, India's former Ambassador to Brazil B S Prakash hopes that when they see their president being feted on......

The new BJP is like the old Congress

While it took the Congress nearly a half century to earn the hatred of other political outfits, the BJP appears set to reach there in around six years, says Arun Bhatnagar, former secretary to the......

How successful women deal with marriage, mobility & maternity

A lot of women drop out of higher studies or their professional career because of marriage or motherhood. That's the reason many women in their late twenties and early-thirties leave their careers......

For stock markets to boom, go easy on terrorists!

"If devils were to rule, Laws would devour corpses." -- Mahakavi Subramaniya Bharathi First the context. Ever since adopting the new economic policies in the early nineties, successive Indian......

Mobile data market booms in India

Indian Idol, licensed from the American Idol format, went on air on Sony Entertainment Television in October 2004. The talent hunt for singers had already been a huge hit in the US. The show was......

Wooing Generation Next

It might have seemed like an unusual move by Himalaya Drug Company. A few months ago the company decided to make a splash with its honey-based products in Cafe Coffee Day outlets. So, it designed a......

The BEST International Films of 2021

2021 may go down in the history of world cinema as having produced the largest number of good quality films from across the world. What is remarkable is that practically all of these films were......

How DK's Dream Came True

IMAGE: Dinesh Karthik was named in India's squad for the T20 World Cup in Australia beginning next month. Photograph: BCCI   Dinesh Karthik's tweet on Monday, said it all. 'Dreams do come......

Is Virat better than Sachin?

'This was Kohli's veneration for his master: The man who had inspired him to pick up a cricket bat in the first place, the man he had grown up watching.''Just that now, he was exactly like him, or,......