Ravish Kumar's Lonely Journey

'While We Watched is like Titanic, but it's not about Jack and Rose.''It's about the musicians who decided to stay back and continue playing the violin when the ship went down.' IMAGE: Ravish......

'Sasikala stays with Jayalalithaa only because of the assets' case'

This is no ordinary election season for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa: she has been positioned by her party as a prime ministerial candidate, making the contest in Tamil Nadu more keenly......

Memo to Rahul: It is 2014, not 2004

The Congress vice-president needs to speak from a script more attuned to today's realities because his attempts to position himself as the perennial outsider would have held greater resonance 10......

Decoding the Kamala Harris Phenomenon

Kamala succeeded as she identified herself with the larger minority groups rather than narrow ethnicity, prodded by her mother who did not want to return to India, observes Ambassador T P......

The economic cost of conflict in Kashmir

If and when this latest crisis moves towards resolution, it’s unlikely that the economic solutions will take much precedence, says Sreenivasan Jain. Image: A Kashmiri woman carrying......

'The government is killing the telecom dream'

In an exclusive interview to NDTV Profit, chairman of Bharti Enterprises, Sunil Mittal, hit out at what he called the irrational pricing of spectrum between older and newer players. He said older......

The noise around the land acquisition law

The debate over the land ordinance is best located in facts, not hyperbole, says Sreenivasan Jain. Labourers work along the construction site of a road at Ghilot in Rajasthan. Photograph: Adnan......

All about the Food Security Bill myth

There's nothing to back claims that the bill will fix broken PDS networks, notes Sreenivasan Jain Given the economic tremors ascribed to the food security Bill, one wonders whether the prophets of......

'I will never have the joy of sitting with Girish again'

Economist and author Devaki Jain counted Girish Karnad among her good friends.Naturally, the 86-year-old Padma Shri awardee is coping with a deep sense of loss after Karnad passed into the ages on......

Review: Hunterrr is a waste of terrific actors

Hunterrr is a deeply problematic film, and fails rather miserably, warns Raja Sen. Is there a word for a male nymphomaniac? (If not, I strongly suggest ‘himphomaniac.’)  The......