For the thuggish Naxalites, revolution is a pretence

'The Naxalite strategy is to periodically attack police forces to provoke a reaction.''Once the security forces over-react and cause suffering to innocents by high-handed actions, the people will......

Naxal massacre: No lessons learnt from earlier attacks

The roots of the problem lies in the alienation of the tribals. Extreme sensitivity is required to tackle the issues involved. Rough and ready methods of using force may prove counterproductive in......

Rise of Sena & 2nd generation Thackerays

This article was written in 2006 by Aditi Phadnis and Makrand Gadgil in Of Cabals and Kings: Political Profiles published by BS Books. It has been updated and is being reproduced here In 1966 when......

India's forgotten state

With the NDA in strange boycott mode, which nobody either understands or supports, and the nationalists and secularists in narcissistic mood, either appreciating their mirror images or trying to......

It's impossible to go global without India: Huffington Post

On Monday, Huffington Post, an 'internet newspaper' owned by the $2.3 billion AOL, launched its India edition in association with India's largest media firm, the Rs 6,700 crore or Rs 67 billion......

In India, death to global business

On the night of Apr 24, a group of 300 men and women, armed with bows and arrows and sickles and led by gun-wielding commanders, emerged swiftly and silently from the dense forest in India's......

Shamshera Review

Shamshera's problem is a shocking inability to support its bombastic ideas with gripping drama.The result is the wastage of not one but two Ranbir Kapoors, observes Sukanya Verma. There was a time......

The Official Timekeeper Of Beating Hearts

If Irrfan could have been our finest professor of empirical philosophy, and Nawaz is our foremost poet of that space halfway between the gutter and the stars, then Jaideep Ahlawat has to be our......

25 Years Ago in Bollywood...

1996, recapped. 25 years ago, Madras became Chennai, Dolly the sheep was successfully cloned, Doordarshan combatted aggressive satellite cable networking, Indian politicians engaged in a crazy game......

Just who was Fearless Nadia?

One of Fearless Nadia's most famous scenes had her fighting the bad guys on top of a speeding train!How well do you know this legend of Hindi cinema who apparently Kangana Ranaut's character in......

EXPOSED! FIFA scandal stinks up the Caribbean

‘There is a Jack Warner or two in every Caribbean parliament today’ Activists from advocacy group Avaaz demonstrate near the Hallenstadion, in Zurich. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters......

Hunt is on for best Jimmy Savile lookalikes

August 19, 2003 | 18:20 ISTHunt is on for best Jimmy Savile lookalikes A competition to find the best Jimmy Savile lookalike will be held during the fourth Test between England and South Africa at......