'Don't be surprised if the Census forms come with a caste box.''I will be surprised if it doesn't. It will be a point conceded to Rahul Gandhi and his allies,' asserts Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: People......
'The BJP's numbers in this government are almost the same as those enjoyed by the Congress under P V Narasimha Rao when the reform process was kicked off in 1991.' 'As before, the only constraints......
Thirty-three first-timers have found place in the third Modi government sworn in on Sunday and at least six of them hail from well-known political families. IMAGE: President Droupadi Murmu and......
Modi has proven to be a past master in the art of political survival.This means that learning to navigate the choppy waters of coalition government will be an art he will not take long to master,......
The TDP and JD-U will have a lot to answer inside Parliament, day after day, session after session, notes N Sathiya Moorthy, notes N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader......
'The D K Adikesavulu clan is so wealthy, owns so many houses, and has so much jewellery,' notes T V R Shenoy, 'that it did not notice a servant stealing at the rate of Rs 66 lakh every year!'......
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......
The traditional view on expert committees on important economic policy matters is that they are desirable and serve a very useful purpose in a democratic system. These committees with their reports......
When asked about his government's record on reforms, Mr Chidambaram, somewhat innocently but perhaps disingenuously, asks, "If reforms have slowed down, how are we registering high growth?"......
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former finance secretary and currently director of the Independent Evaluation Office at the International Monetary Fund, is bashful about speaking to the press amid......
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire. S P Balasubrahmanyam passed away in his 75th year, and so we celebrate the singer with 75 of his top songs, in a multi-part......
Telugu filmmaker and former Union Minister Dasari Narayana Rao passed away in Hyderabad on Tuesday, May 30. The who's who of the Telugu film industry made sure to attend his prayer......
Vishnu Manchu comes back after a short hiatus with Dhenikaina Ready, a fun Telugu film packaged with all the entertaining staples for a family outing, says Radhika Rajamani While the basic theme is......
Directed by VV Vinayak and produced by father Allu Aravind under their home banner Geetha Arts, Allu Arjun's next magnum opus is the Telugu film Badrinath. The actor will be paired opposite......
After acting in a period devotional film Pandurangadu, Nandamuri Balakrishna (Balayya)'s big-budget commercial Telugu film Simha, produced by Parachuri Kiriti (under United movies banner) and......