'If you can have Rampur flown magically to Pakistan's borders, I might ask the nawab to accede to Pakistan. Else, I'm afraid we have no choice in the matter but to join India.' A riveting excerpt......
'I did not take up research for any award.''What is more important is the medicine that I have developed.''This helps the patient recover and the family is happy that their relative has survived......
'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.''Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.' IMAGE: Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri and her husband Hardeep Singh Puri, currently India's minister of......
What should be made out of the Madras high court order involving non-Hindus' entry into Hindu temples, when many non-Hindus are among the hundreds of thousands that have been worshipping at these......
'If the authorities go about completing this project the way they have proposed, this is going to cause a HUGE environmental impact not only on Malabar Hill but also on the rest of the city.'......
Manmohan Singh faced stiff competition in Singapore. No, not at the East Asia Summit or in meetings with the Asean. But the rival attractions of two imaginative exhibitions on India's past and an......
Part I: The local and global in Hyderabad's development Shri Narasimha Rao would have known that Hyderabad, and its predecessor kingdom of Golconda, had their own 'Look East Policy'. I discovered......
In late 2003, a multinational oil major offered to sell an Indian public sector power company liquefied natural gas (LNG) at $4.5-5 per million British thermal unit (mmbtu). It was summarily turned......
Prof. John Harriss is the director of the Development Studies Institute (Asia Centre) at The London School of Economics and Political Sciences and also affiliated member of the department of......
The recent US federal law against outsourcing American support services to foreign shores has invited a series of protests from sources in the Indian government and the Indian corporate sector.......
National award winning Assamese director Jahnu Barua entered the Hindi film industry with his critically acclaimed film, Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara. Now, the director is back with his next, Har......
When the rumours were agog that the lead players in the Broadway production of Bombay Dreams would have white actors in the lead -- and perhaps Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon) in a significant role --......