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Onfield Nationalism From A Box
A gullible nation, groomed for decades by television channels striving to maximise profit, has come to regard India vs Pakistan matches as proxy war
This Way For The Trump Card
Modi meets POTUS this week. An Afghan strategy and an offer of mediation can make it noteworthy.
Drawing The Net Closer
Stingier customers, a digital shift, Brexit and an H­1B scare have slashed IT profits. But leading Indian firms have caught sight of a smarter path.
Ostentatious Obligations
An austerity bill by a luxury biker has few rich takers desperate to splurge.
It's the Economy, Cupid
The spectre of China ought to be dispelled by the prospect of business.
The Coming Caste Wars
The growing clamour for reservation to society's shrinking ability to fulfil the dreams globalisation unleashes
To Put Faith in Secularism
‘Secularism’ inhabits twin strands—one simply strives to control religion; another, more composite view, allows plural views on faith to coexist. Charting secularism’s progress in France and the US, Charles Taylor alights on the passionate debate it is generating in modern Europe and India.
Caste and Faith in the Dalit Mirror
Four activists and scholars with different religious identities take stock of what has changed for India’s ‘untouchables’ and what remains the same.
Global Is Beautiful
The World Cup epitomises football at its very best—a unifying force in a world too often fighting against itself
Both Gold & Glitter
Messi and Neymar: two sides of football stardom, but their core lights the same way
To Beard A Boyar In Muscovy
A bickering world, quite rightly, gets Russia, the commonest bete noire, as host of its cup of life. Ah, but we mustn’t cavil. It might turn out to be fun after all.
Gali Gali Football Shootball
Following matches through radio static to plugging in—Indian fans have been steadfast as ever. But has the dazzle of European soccer held us in enthralled stupor?
Waiting for Mr Parrikar
The long absence of the CM and two key ministers has created a peculiar situation in Goa politics
Lay Of The Lost
Missing key to a temple storehouse opens a Pandora’s box
How To Grab The Key To Wealth Creation
Smartly balancing today’s and tomorrow’s requirements with the help of a sound financial plan holds the key to creating ample wealth for future needs.
Eat In And Keep The Taxman Away
GST has been largely neutral or beneficial for consumers, but ‘luxuries’ are a bone of contention.
RK Films Was Born With Raj Kapoor And Died With Him
Ranbir Kapoor is one of the biggest stars outside of the Khanate ruled by the Aamir-Salman-Shahrukh triptych in Bollywood. But his last few movies have not set the cashbox ringing at the box office, the ultimate arbiter of an artiste’s worth over a weekend in a cut-throat film industry. The 35-year-old actor now returns with a biopic on Sanjay Dutt made by a filmmaker with the Midas touch, Rajkumar Hirani, who has never failed in the past 15 years. In a freewheeling interview with Giridhar Jha, barely a few days before the release of Sanju, Ranbir discusses, among other things, the most challenging role in his career and why he does not want to spoil the legacy of R.K. Films by reviving the iconic banner founded by his legendary grandfather Raj Kapoor. Excerpts from the interview:
Anchor, Old Man And The Sea
After Arnab Goswami’s resignation from Times Now, a storm of what-next rumours.
Smog Capital Of The World: Delhi
What’s with the air in Delhi that a festival of lights plunged it into darkness? Can we read the signal in the smog?
Modi's Trump Card: Demonetisation
Demonetisation is a dramatic Modistroke. And well-timed too, ahead of crucial polls.
Clueless In Cash Country
Outside urban india, it is largely hard cash that has currency.
Loose Screws In The Tata Wheels
Behind Cyrus Mistry’s booting out was his doggedly independent action, and Ratan tata’s intolerance of it.
Teotwawki: Okay If We Confirm That Tomorrow?
What if the science of prediction is a fictive process and nothing more? Is the future, then, even if loosely knowable, specifically unpredictable?
'Muslim Ban', Donald Trump's First Batch Of Executive Order
Trump is living up to poll rhetoric. More Muslims may find America a mirage.
Congress vs 'Congress'
The spotlight in the Uttarakhand duel is on the CM and those who quit his party.
Jaitleyspeak: Jai Infra Jai Agri
Bracketed between demonetisation and GST, Jaitley finds an occasion to quietly focus his lens on rural India. Shoring up the fundamentals there may need more big ideas, though.
Too Many Players In El Dorado
When Hollywood studios entered the Indian film market, they were being touted as the game­changers. Now, they are planning to quit the game they couldn’t quite comprehend.
‘We Don't Need Nudges And Pushes'
Ahmed Moh­amed, Maldives’ ambassador to India, talks about the crisis and the best possible way to defuse it
No Sermon Of Serenity At Arch Of Terror
Fidayeen attacks are on the rise in J&K. Many feel the Centre can be less hard in its take on militancy.
From Bud To Flower
BJP’s foray into poll-bound Tripura baffles the ruling Left and dwarfs Congress