The Congress needs to reorganise itself at the grassroots, infuse younger blood, and have more boots on the ground.Just offering freebies is not the answer anymore, argues Ramesh Menon. IMAGE: A......
'While We Watched is like Titanic, but it's not about Jack and Rose.''It's about the musicians who decided to stay back and continue playing the violin when the ship went down.' IMAGE: Ravish......
'I have never seen such a large parade being commanded with such precision just by a vocal word of command.''I would like to import this technology to England.'IAF Veteran Air Commodore Nitin......
Veteran journalist Vinod Dua, who started his career with Doordarshan in the black and white era and went on to make his mark in the digital space in the decades that followed, died in Delhi's......
'Indian science was perhaps more rational than the European science of the time.''Nobody tried or convicted Aryabhata just because he said Rahu-Ketu is nonsense.''Some Indians take the extreme view......
Swift Dzire has clocked 2.5 million in sales, and you might, in a non-too-distant future, see headlines that the DZire has done 3 million as well, observes Suveen Sinha. IMAGE: Maruti Suzuki's 4th......
'When resources are few; when frugality demands repairing a broken thing rather than replacing it with a brand new and expensive option, enterprising commoners in rural and urban India improvise on......
'He was the first creative person to recognise and fully realise the power of film in an era when press ads were the only competence of Indian creatives.'Urvi Malvania remembers Alyque Padamsee.......
John Elliott, the author of Implosion: India's Tryst with Reality, on his Riding the Elephant blog says the sacking of Cyrus Mistry as chairman of Tata Sons was in line with Ratan Tata’s......
'With his envious academic record, extraordinary research calibre and unparalleled work experience, we can trust him to become the first Indian -- fully Indian, not one of those Americans of Indian......
'Whenever people say to me that all my work looks unique, I say to them originality is the art of concealing your source.''You can't see the sources that I take from because usually, they are......
'Romance not in a physical manner maybe, but, you know, where you are just sharing dialogues and looking at each other and conversations are happening.''Rekhaji is has always been my favourite, and......
1999 in Hindi movies marked the end of a vibrant young decade and a gentle promise of electrifying new things to come in the new millennium. Where madcap masala still reigned supreme, morally......
'The only violence I have had in any film of mine is a slap.''When Nikhil narrated the film to me, I was blown away.''I was literally screaming out of my chair.' IMAGE: Lakshya in Kill. Film......
'...you start running after the star.''If the star says yes to the film, the ecosystem supports it.''The biggest cog in the wheel of the ecosystem is the audience and we forget that.' IMAGE:......
More than the story of any other footballer or athlete, Pele's life helped democratise his sport; made it the stuff of a widely shared dream.Shyam G Menon salutes the memory of the greatest......
'I never imagined that there would come a day when the NBA game would be seen and heard by Indian fans in their own language.' IMAGE: The NBA's Hindi commentator Akshay Manwani analyses games on......
IPL 2019 proved another huge hit. The world's most followed T20 tournament lived up to its billing, producing exhilarating entertainment almost every night. Fittingly, the final was decided off the......
'From the beginning (I have told her) "Whatever it may be -- you are losing or winning -- on the ground you're not going to cry!" She never cried.''"I don't want you to project that you are a......
Sarita ends with bronze in Polish boxing tourney IMAGE: L Sarita Devi of India celebrates. Photograph: Jono Searle/Getty Images Former world champion L Sarita Devi (60kg) signed off with a......