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We are all Dhritarashtra

The one overweening concern of most Indians -- leaders of statecraft, captains of industry, matinee idols, paragons of professions, and common citizens alike -- is the future of their progeny, says......

Greed is good; excessive greed even better

The reason why Bofors is back in the news is the same mindboggling excessive greed as in the Commonwealth Games scandal. Excessive greed, it turns out, is even better, for unearthing the truth,......

Jhunjhunwala: The RARE big bull and unabashed wealth creator

Stock market investments are always said to involve risks and people who made big fortunes often made headlines as scamsters, leading to Dalal Street always being looked at with suspicion, but......

All hail Modi's 1st BJP Budget

The Modi government is notoriously honest about one fact: It does not listen to economists, observes Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Welcome sign rolled out for Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi in......

Few scandalous biz tycoons who made it big, ran it and got screwed

Has business become more immoral than before? Perhaps not; it’s just being exposed more often because of tighter laws and the spread of information technology, says Kanika Datta. There are......

From 'greed is good' to finance for global good

Gordon Gekko, who appeared as the ruthless corporate raider in the earlier Wall Street movie of 1987, is best remembered for the line: "Greed is good." At the close of that film Gekko went to......

Patterns in governance failures

Birders look for patterns and distinguishing marks -- the head, the wings, the underside and the tail, the size, the colour, the beak, whether it is the morning after an overnight rain in early......

Mirzapur 2 is all surface pleasures...

... And sometimes, that's enough, says Sreehari Nair. IMAGE: Divyenndu Sharma in Mirzapur 2. I think you can enjoy the second season of Mirzapur if you tuck away the central plot somewhere in the......

Review: Saif's stock rises in unoriginal Baazaar

'He is evil in its most hypnotic, powerful, persuasive, expressive and exonerated avatar,' notes Sukanya Verma. When I think about Saif Ali Khan's early movies, I imagine a clueless kid using all......

Review: Leonardo DiCaprio excels in Wolf Of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street has its moments but it is director Martin Scorsese’s weakest attempt at film-making, says Aseem Chhabra. If I was 20-something and Leonardo DiCaprio (I......

Review: The Wolf of Wall Street plays its cards right but fails to click

The Wolf of Wall Street can really please the senses. Just remember to forget your humanity for a while, says Paloma Sharma. Here’s what’s interesting about Jordan Belfort......

Why Wolf Of Wall Street is an irresponsible film

Martin Scorsese's The Wolf Of Wall Street could set a bad precedent, feels Aseem Chhabra. Last weekend I watched Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 Oscar-winning masterpiece The Godfather at the Museum of......

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