'Jagan Is Very Dictatorial'

'Chandrababu is wiser and a very good administrator.''Jagan is the opposite. He is not very wise, not a good administrator.' IMAGE: YSRC leader Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy addresses an election meeting......

Why Are Voters Not Turning Up To Vote?

Is the unusually and unbearably scorching Sun and the general laxity, bordering on laziness, among voters, responsible, asks N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Voters line up outside a polling station at......

Why 'Captain' Vijayakanth Won't Be Forgotten

The Tamil film industry won't forget Vijayakanth's large-heartedness, how he took care of fellow industry persons, male or female, rich or poor, young or old...recalls N Sathiya Moorthy. How he......

North-South Divide: Myth Or Reality?

For the BJP, Telangana is a sunrise state in the South, while Karnataka is a southern success despite the ups and downs. IMAGE: INDIA alliance leaders Sharad Pawar, T R Baalu, Mallikarjun Kharge,......

View Consumption Survey Numbers With Caution

Could the MPCE survey results be used as a basis of reconstructing the Consumer Price Index with new weights, asks Madan Sabnavis. Photograph: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters The Survey on household......

Uttarakhand saw sharpest dip in workforce during Covid

Uttarakhand saw the sharpest decline (of 11 per cent) in the “total persons engaged” in manufacturing in the worst-hit pandemic year of 2020-21 as industrial units shut shop, according......

'We are not going back to licence raj'

'I'm pitching India for the strengths we offer, including the English language, engineers, doctors, nurses, professionals, innovative talent of startups.' IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala......

Want To Send Your Car To The Graveyard?

One of the challenges for those car graves is that Indian owners often find markets for their old cars rather than send them to scrapyards. IMAGE: A wrecked car is seen in the scrapyard.......

The BEST Indian Films of 2021

Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021. Aseem's Best International Films of 2021 In the second year of the pandemic when movie theatres remained closed for an extended period of......

2018's TOP 15 Indian films

Aseem Chhabra looks at the year's best Non-Hindi Indian movies. 2018 was really good for the Indian film industry with a number of important films in Hindi and other regional languages. My work as......

Akshay Kumar postpones PadMan's release for Padmaavat

'I will be grateful to Akshay Kumar for a lifetime for what he has done.' Akshay Kumar has postponed the release of his film, PadMan, to avoid a box office clash with Sanjay Leela......

'I won't join politics'

'Today, moviegoers are in the 13 to 33 age bracket.''If people like us have to remain relevant, we have to make movies that cater to them,' Akshay Kumar tells Raghavendra Kamath and Dev......