Lessons For The World From 2023

One looks upon the coming new year with foreboding as current wars in Ukraine and Gaza spill over and escalate and new ones erupt in incipient fault lines across the world, notes former foreign......

Loyalist to rebel: What forced Azad to sever 50 years of bond with Congress

Veteran Congressman Ghulam Nabi Azad, a constant fixture in the organisation's decision-making process since the tumultuous times of Emergency, finally fell out with his mother party on Friday......

COVID-19 can reset wrongs done to invisible millions

'The Modi government must create conditions to integrate millions into the rural economy as many migrants are certainly not going to return to live an undignified life,' notes Ramesh Menon. IMAGE:......

Wanted: Vision 20:20, not myopia

'The government may backpedal for now to stave off bad international press and diplomatic demarches, but that it will go ahead with putting religion at the centre of citizenship rules is......

Is this why govt needs money from RBI?

Money permits patronage.Money means power. No wonder details of the crores locked up in NPAs and never repaid loans are top secret, says Sunanda K Datta-Ray. Photograph: PTI Photo It could well be......

'Great risk to nations from undermining independence of central bank'

'The Reserve Bank's independence has remained a work in progress, an enduring challenge that the nation has been grappling with on an ongoing basis,' says RBI Deputy Governor Dr Viral V Acharya.......

Will Viral Acharya sing a new tune at the RBI?

Hopefully, the grey world of central banking in a nation hit by demonetisation, will lighten up with some of his notes soon.Anup Roy profiles Viral Acharya, the new RBI deputy governor, a man of......

Viral Acharya new RBI deputy governor

The government on Wednesday appointed Viral V Acharya, a New YorkUniversity economics professor who once called himself ‘poor man’s Raghuram Rajan’, as new deputy governor at the......

Thappad review

A spectacular Taapsee Pannu brings out the shift of a happy homemaker to a heartbroken woman most strikingly in her deeply affecting performance, applauds Sukanya Verma. When Raj Kapoor slaps......

Ten 2018 Films I didn't like

Why these movies didn't impress Sreehari Nair... One or many of the films on this list would have made it to another critic's list of the Best Hindi Films of 2018. But I think we are living in too......

Review: Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani disappoints

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is a good-looking film but lacks a good story, writes Raja Sen. When we can’t stand something a certain way, we’re instinctively prone to wishing it were......

'Reluctant Fundamentalist not directly inspired by 9/11'

Mira Nair's latest film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, is said to be a thriller. Adapted from Mohsin Hamid's international bestseller of the same name, the film set in America and Pakistan is much......

5 blind men: India's cricket tragedy

The final image said it all: Aavishkar Salvi, front foot plonked down the road to perdition, swiping wildly at a delivery that was not even in the same pincode as his bat to finish off the Indian......

Time to experiment

So the Indians lived to die another day. Bond, licensed and skilled, started the familiar slide that seemed like action replay from Wellington. Stephen Fleming's jibe about world class batsmen......