'Never I have not seen a ten dollars bill green American and I would like to have one of them.'A written plea by a 12-year-old Cuban boy to an American president in 1940.The White House, which had......
Do your Christmas decorations come with dancing ballerinas? If your answer is no, then look no further because the White House has totally put everyone else holiday efforts to shame. United......
'It is not the country's interests alone that lead to all this secrecy.''More usually, the reason is the threat from political rivals: What will they do if they find out?', notes T C A Srinivasa......
'Now Mr Modi has been offered a more real but different kind of war, which he has likened to the Mahabharat,' notes T N Ninan. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi addresses the nation,......
The US's first lady ambassador to India wants to set a new tone for the India-US relationship. Aziz Haniffa reports from Washington, DC. On the eve of her departure to New Delhi as the United......
An expert on Indo-US relations has warned that continued outsourcing of jobs from the United States to India could become a major political element in President George W Bush's election and if the......
The variety of available capital is mind-boggling: venture capitalists ready to throw their money at unproven concepts, private equity players ready to inject large dollops to grow businesses,......
The cult of the heroic leader remains strong. -- Loren Gary, editor Effective leaders are not born with the gift of knowing how to lead. Rather, they gain experience, they absorb knowledge, they......
Oppenheimer is a very politically significant film for our time, observes Utkarsh Mishra. When 'American Prometheus' Dr J Robert Oppenheimer decided to lead the Manhattan Project to make the......
Every four years, when the Summer Olympics hit the headlines, some media outlet or the other mentions the great Jesse Owens and his victories at the 1936 Berlin Games. Inevitably, the story of his......