IMAGE: Village children show their patriotic spirit near Balurghat, West Bengal, August 15, 2015. Photograph: PTI Photo 'It is folly to think that religious-identity-based politics and a......
Your vote will decide whether India fixes itself and becomes a vibrant democracy, or a failed State like the ones in our neighbourhood, says Dasarathi G V. "Corruption can be tolerated, but fast......
Democracy must be nurtured, or else it gets corrupted. Voting is just one part of the duty as a citizen of this democracy. But another duty that most of us overlook is participation, says G V......
This is what happened to me when I was born 46 years ago. I was born to Tamil speaking parents, my father had a dark skin and my mother a light one. My ayah was a light-skinned woman from UP who......
"$%@#""#@#@$""Man," I thought, "that's new!"I was familiar with the first one, but the second was brand new.I was in my free daily class, learning stuff that cannot be repeated in polite company.......
It will be bad for the farmer and the consumer. It will be bad for the poor -- urban and rural. It will put a lot of people in the retail trade out of jobs, says G V Dasarathi who has been in......
Whatever else the Tata Nano may have achieved or not achieved, it has -- for the first time -- got the entire country talking about a car, instead of cricket or religion or politics. I thought I......
'The whole process where people get an idea and put together a team, raise the capital, create a product and mainstream it -- that can only be done in the US. It can't be done sitting in India. The......
Politicians, bureaucrats and residents of Bangalore take pride in the fact that they live in what they call the Silicon Valley of the East. The city is considered high tech because of the number of......
'He always had this big, goofy grin on his face and would speak to me with complete attention, something I was not used to as a shy child who kept to herself.'Amala Dasarathi recalls her encounters......