Jinnah felt Pakistani & Indian soldiers would fight side by side against invaders
Journalist Kuldip Nayar recounts Lal Bahadur Shastri saying Kashmir may have had a different fate if what Jinnah believed had come true.
Selfless national interest doesn’t quite drive corporate-politician ties: Ratan Tata
Money's corrupting role in Indian politics has only grown since the country's independence, writes Ratan Tata
What a bra & panty business park near Visakhapatnam can teach Modi about job creation
The park is a textbook case on how clustering can make smaller companies competitive and more productive, and enable them to generate employment.
By 2017, Modi had belied the hopes he raised in 2014
Modi rapidly expanded same welfare schemes he had called a leading symbol of India’s economic underachievement under the Congress.
Some sects of Hinduism encourage sex during your periods
Menstrual blood is, in fact, considered pure and sacred, and plays a very important role in certain Tantric rituals.
Why nobody sat on the same sofa as Sonia Gandhi
Many of us have been witness to this almost feudal style of functioning that has come to define the Sonia Gandhi era in the Congress.
Ambushed & injured in Kashmir: How Major Somnath Sharma earned a Param Vir Chakra
Despite nursing a fracture, Major Somnath Sharma refused to stay behind while his men were sent on a mission.
George Fernandes always said Nitish Kumar was one person whose mind he could never fathom
The final nail in the coffin for George Fernandes was perhaps the humiliation of being rejected for his Muzaffarpur constituency by his party colleagues.
Communal violence in the time of Modi has a distinct shade. Here’s why
With targeted hate crimes on the rise, an atmosphere of fear has become ubiquitous among India's minorities.
The simple way non-MBAs can be as good as MBA types in India
If you don’t want an MBA to have an advantage over a non-MBA, you should be comfortable losing the advantage of your education to an uneducated person.
Blood, bodies and scars: What I saw after the 1983 Nellie massacre in Assam
On the anniversary of the Nellie massacre in Assam, which claimed thousands of lives in a few hours, I recall the horrid sights.
As Pakistan’s leverage with US, China, Saudi Arabia grows, is it even possible to isolate it?
Pakistan signed deals worth $20 billion with Saudi Arabia, even as India vows to isolate the neighbour diplomatically after the Pulwama attack on a CRPF convoy.
Defence
IAF deputy chief and other senior officers set to fly Rafale at Aero India
Even as political slug-fest continues over the deal, IAF is throwing its weight behind Rafale, the first of which is to be delivered in September 2019.
Suicidal Pakistan should know Modi may not be scared of its nuclear button
Pakistan has taken too much of a chance with Pulwama — with the wrong government in India, and at the wrong time.