By going to Hollywood, Anil Ambani has the best chance to make films that appeal to a wider audience than the NRIs, writes
N Chandra Mohan.
Will Spielberg make dreams work...?Needless to emphasise, there are many films that have just evaporated because no one cares, writes Khalid Mohamed.
Detention of a person on suspicion without trial is an anathema to the Rule of Law. The US apex court’s decision on Guantanamo Bay detainees is a vindication of the rule of law, writes SJ Sorabjee.
Asian nations must take charge of the economic norms that once enabled them to grow rapidly, writes Kishore Mahbubani.
It’s taken as long as four years for the realisation to dawn that the UPA-Left equation was perhaps untenable to begin with, writes Rajdeep Sardesai.
It is time for the new Governor, NN Vohra, to start the process of change in Valley by relinquishing control of the shrines, writes Barkha Dutt.
Naxalism is entering a new phase, fed as it is by the oxygen of the states' failure in its duties towards its own people, writes
Sudeep Chakravarti.
A man-made water crisis is ravaging Bundelkhand and this monsoon could provide a crucial opportunity to save the region from disaster, writes KumKum Dasgupta.
Indian archaeology has its share of Indiana Jones-type characters of which many startling finds have mostly come from good old spadework, finds out
Nayanjot Lahiri.
Amitav Ghosh goes behind the curtains of his latest novel,
The Sea of Poppies, to tell us what led him to this epic tale of drug-running and sea-faring.
Has B'wood skidded back to depictions of vulnerable
bechari-type women? So much for gender empowerment, writes
K Mohammad.
Our obsession with statues and cut-outs is a mark of a completely de-ideologised political universe, writes
Sagarika Ghose.When the Minister of State for Home unfailingly points to a ‘foreign hand’ each and every time, without a blink of the eye, do we wonder whether he's lying?
Barkha Dutt asks.
Efforts must be redoubled to step up domestic oil production to enhance self-sufficiency for fuel, writes
N Chandra Mohan.The Sarsanghchalak of the RSS, Golwalkar was effusive in its praise of the Hindu essence of the Himalayan State. Nepal, he said, "is the only State that proudly proclaims itself a Hindu Nation...."