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There couldn’t have been a better time for the BJP, since its loss of power in the summer of 2004,...

In this vicious open season, you can pretty much call a member of the political class anything. Yet, you wouldn’t...

Is there a caste or communal link to corruption and crime? Or, are your chances of being involved (and getting...

How do you define a recession? Economists will tell you it is when growth turns negative. But others have simpler...

We all know the adjectives that will be repeated often as tributes pour in for Dev Anand: evergreen, ageless, romantic,...

Could it be that we have been so obsessed with the freeze in the UPA as to totally overlook the...

The sharply polarised political debate on the nuclear deal was the most significant instance of the so-called holy national consensus...

When you look back on a sharp, short and decisive war with the benefit of four decades of hindsight, you...

Can one be so daft as to find something in common between the new Press Council chairman, Markandey Katju, and...

In a political power structure that runs mostly on wind energy, you would trust one of the most energetic young...

Pakistan has been back in the headlines lately, and we have nothing to do with it at all. You haven’t...

In Vishal Bhardwaj’s Ishqiya , the most adorable uncle-nephew pair of tramps (played brilliantly by Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi)...