Why India needs to thank Nehru

India's freedom, its rambling but working Constitution, its Parliamentary democracy, its lumbering administrative machinery all have many a father, but its greatest claim to fame, especially today,......

World comes together to reflect on 9/11 attacks

From Tokyo to Sydney, the world came together with the United States to mourn the loss of nearly 3,000 people, who lost their lives exactly 10 years ago in the most fearful terror attack that......

Hyderabad blasts cast shadow on Mathai-Kerry meeting

The first thing the new US Secretary of State, John F Kerry, did when Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai called on him February 21, was to offer his condolences and sympathies to the government and......

No other PM has come close to Nehru's success

'His contributions in setting up transparent precedents of governance are still basically intact despite the cynicism of several of his successors,' notes Jamini Bhagwati. Photograph: Homai......

Budget presentation: Who holds the record?

Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday presented his fifth budget in Parliament on Friday but Morarji Desai holds the record of doing so 10 times. Mukherjee, who is holding the......

Manmohan Singh and the 1944 Bombay Plan

An economic document, the 'Bombay Plan,' prepared exactly 60 years ago, had a profound impact on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who, later in the early 1990s, was to become the architect of India's......

Billionaires have always called the shots in India

'James Crabtree ignores the emergence of a nexus between business and politics going back to the 1920s and talks of it as a new child of 21st century India,' says Shivanand Kanavi. IMAGE: Vijay......

On RBI, let the public know who stands where

If indeed the issues involved between the government and RBI are of immense public interest, why not make public the arguments of both the government and the RBI, irrespective of the outcome of the......

'It's time we handed over the reins to women'

'I would want all positions of power, be it that of the prime minister, chief minister or any other important post, to be handed over to women now.''Men have tried all these years, bas kharab hi......

Looking At 1999: 25 Years Ago In Bollywood...

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......

First Look: Happy Husbands

Director Saji Surendran created quite a storm with the success of his debut Malayalam film Ivar Vivahitharayal. He is now all set to repeat the winning streak with the next one, Happy Husbands, the......

Why Biju Menon won't be typecast

Biju Menon is perhaps one of the most versatile actors in Malayalam cinema. Having started his career as a television actor in the early 1990s, he got noticed in the comedy Mannar Mathai Speaking......