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'Hindu philosophy was sophisticated under Mughals'

'Second-class citizenship would have been meaningless to a Hindu in the Mughal empire.' IMAGE: Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1618-1707). Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Not long ago,......

All the Congress presidents: From family to foreigners

Of the 15 people who led the 132-year-old party post independence, four have belonged to the Gandhi-Nehru family. IMAGE: Motilal Nehru was the first from the Nehru-Gandhi family to be Congress......

Why insistence on only one language must be resisted

An insistence on only one language will inevitably be resented as a form of imperialism and resisted. Such narrow-mindedness also breeds a destructive and, at times, violent competitive linguistic......

The purely scientific case for Rama's Bridge

In these days when we worry about global warming, it takes great chutzpah or ignorance, or both, to proceed with a plan to induce major environmental changes, with uncertain consequences.......

Floundering on founding myths

The responses to my last column reminded me of a suspicion that I have nurtured for a long time -- that readers are fundamentally divided into two camps, each believing certain 'facts' about India,......

Is India's economy crashing?

Or do we need to retool our country, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Open any newspaper or news Web site and the bad news is unrelenting. It looks like a whole slew......

Decoding the Rs 1 lakh message

It is early January here in New York and the weather had no right to be as warm and sunny as it is today. By any account it has to be freezing and below zero Celsius and the streets have to be......

'In India, those who don't vote are happy people'

In the wake of Thomas L Friedman's The World is Flat, and Shashi Tharoor's The Elephant, The Tiger, and The Cell Phone comes Rafiq Dossani's book India Arriving: How This Economic Powerhouse is......

At 17, she has built a million-dollar web site

Late last year, Ian Moray stumbled across a cotton-candy-pink Web site called Whateverlife.com. As manager of media development at the online marketing company ValueClick Media, he was searching......

Review: 12 Years A Slave is a tough, important film

12 Years A Slave is Django Unchained served up Shyam Benegal style, says Raja Sen.Strange Fruit will never quite sound the same again. The old poem -- immortalised in song first by Billie......

Bombay Dreams gets the best of Indian talent

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 --......

Hey, anyone read a good movie lately?

You never know how ignorant you are until you stop talking and start listening: a lesson I learnt with this Movies blog.There was this reference, in a reader mail, to what I thought was an obscure......

Shubhankar in sole lead at Irish Open golf

IMAGE: Shubhankar Sharma shot his best round of 2023 as he fired a flawless 7-under 65, that included an eagle and five birdies. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters India's golfer Shubhankar Sharma......

Faldo receives knighthood from Queen

Six-times major winner Nick Faldo received his knighthood from Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday, describing the honour as beyond his boyhood dreams. "I was so delighted my family were there to see that,"......

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