As I write this, results in Bihar are still trickling in; but it is apparent that the Lalu Prasad Yadav mystique has finally faltered after fifteen years. In Haryana, the incumbent INLD has been......
Ever since John Kerry virtually sewed up the nomination as the Democratic candidate for the US presidential elections, readers have been asking me what I thought of him and George W Bush from the......
If the Volkswagen Beetle could become an icon over time, then why not the Nano, asks Subir Roy.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com We're just back from Puri, declared the friend who, with his......
Predictions" are being made about the course of inflation in the country. Some official economists and ministers say that a decline would take place in three months. However, a disinterested......
Neither Obama nor Romney realise that government intervention as it is practiced in the US is not the answer to deliver people out of poverty, writes M R Venkatesh. In 2009 when Obama assumed......
It is one of the biggest loots witnessed by mankind -- the loot of the aam aadmi (common man) since 1947 by his brethren occupying public office. It has been orchestrated by politicians,......