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When the ‘trillion-dollar’ mouse begins to roar

Before making blackmoney the centrepiece of its poll campaign, BJP would have been advised to remember that there was a real prospect of having to deal with the mythical monsters it had conjured up.

123 and two half girlfriends

In this season of Internet jokes on politics, let me also make a humble contribution. If Chetan Bhagat were to write a book on...

Taking government out of NGOs

India's democratic depth was evident this past week as the entire establishment, left and right, came together to congratulate Kailash Satyarthi for his Nobel....

From May to September

The lesson Modi & BJP should take away from the 2014 election results is that they are a centre-right govt elected to bring about change within the larger constitutional framework.

Too bad you are dead, cheque is in the mail

The storyline with most natural disasters remains similar — lack of preparation, mostly avoidable deaths & then the first response — announcement of relief to victims' families.

Getting his foreign policy right

Modi has already shown he is different in the way he cancelled talks with Pakistan, just because its high commissioner met Hurriyat leaders, till now a routine and passing blip on media radar.

There is no plan to look for allies for a pre-poll tie-up’

The BJP-led NDA will fight elections together and we will have a common minimum programme (CMP). We will sit together and decide what our...

Stolen power to the people

Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar must rank amongst our bravest creative young people for making 'Katiyabaaz', a documentary about organised power theft in our rotting cities.

Pracharak Modi: True to his mask

The mask and the real face are exactly the same, physically as well as metaphorically. To that extent, Modi is genuinely a leader of the nationalist Hindu Right.

Our essential qualifications have changed…

The era of typewriters is over, with breaking news taking a microsecond to spread. We now live in a more equal, fairer newsroom.

On Camera

Trump’s 28 points for Ukraine add up to a no-go at peace

Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.