If Modi wants to leave a real legacy, breaking India's strategic triangulation would be the real gift, notes Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish......
The enduring legacy of trade routes lies in shared stories and religious diversity. Can the India-Middle East-Europe Economic corridor harness this legacy to empower nations, asks Arundhuti......
In the ancient world there is a great deal of give and take and reciprocal learning.India was an integral and important constituent of such interchanges of goods and ideas. A fascinating excerpt......
I suggest we build a Vigyan Mandir (Temple of Science) with the ambience of a place of worship, so that it becomes a destination for pilgrims.We should embed on its walls bronze plaques describing......
How should one billion Indians, for whom deprivation has become an inescapable way of life, join us in celebrating 75 years of Independence? And where do we go from here? asks Kalyan Singhal.......
"Yawn", "Zzzzz... excuse me, I need to nap." Why hasn't India produced a single earth-shaking idea like Python or the World Wide Web, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic......
Had he not been a student, admirer and follower of Amartya Sen, TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan feels it might have been a Padma Bhushan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The year was 1971.......
'Only the coming years will tell whether the government finds this an easy way of relieving itself from its fiscal constraints.' Dr Pronab Sen, former chairman, Indian Statistical Commission and......
Ajit Balakrishnan on how Indian society and the polity need to be carried along.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. A couple of years ago, in a moment of heroic idealism, I volunteered to......
Most of the apps have been developed in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati and other regional languages The department of electronics and information technology (DeitY), under Prime Minister......
'With its fine zingers and feisty acknowledgement, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan does more for sex, both noun and verb, than any Hindi film can claim to in a long, long time,' notes Sukanya Verma. Is it......
'We have a friendly relationship and help each other whoever gets into the XI. Personally, there's no conflict with him' IMAGE: Rishabh Pant is always chirpy behind the stump. Photograph:......
Hyderabad is all set to witness aspectacular chess match with Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand playing against 40 players simultaneously on August 24. According to the organisers of ICM --......