The death — possibly suicide — of young actor Jiah Khan should make us revisit the notion of success, especially in our filmdom.
Gul Panag writes.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Council’s decision to ban mannequins displaying bikinis in Mumbai stores seems unfair and socially regressive for many reasons. Nandita Patel writes.
The Tokyo-New Delhi partnership should be one of the highest diplomatic priorities for India in the coming decades. India should not miss the rare opportunity of building greater economic ties with Japan.
After several riots, it is clear that without legal justice communal incidents will continue to recur, destroying the precious legacy of India’s age-old pluralism.
Harsh Mander writes.
The Woolwich attack, in which two radicalised Britons of Nigerian origin attacked and killed a British soldier, shook the world because of the gory nature of the crime. What came as more shocking was the motive behind the crime: the two ideologically motivated youths were protesting against British military action in Muslim countries.
Many believe the current cricket spot-fixing crisis could perhaps have been avoided if the lessons of the 2000 scandal had been learnt. Instead, what we found as the T20 league came to an end is that the whole game is under a cloud.
The dastardly attack on a Congress convoy by Maoists in Chhattisgarh must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. The attack proves that Maoists are threatening the idea of India.
Positive signs of the economy are in sight. But we must not allow political instability raise its head.
Operation Yewtree, set up to probe the Jimmy Savile sex scandal, is an indicator of this generation's judgement on the nasty cultural assumptions made in the past.
Farrukh Dhondy writes.
Some healthy constitutional conventions need to be revived in order to stop officials from exceeding their mandate. Ashok Kapur writes.
Society must stop seeing interaction between opposite sexes as taboo. Omair Ahmad writes.
Two mountaineers have set a world record by being the first to use a mobile banking app on Mount Everest….they have successfully traded shares with Breeze Trade and conducted funds transfers with Breeze Banking: Standard Chartered Bank press release, May 23, Nepal. Manas Chakravarty writes.
You don't have to meet him to know he has that winning quality. You can hear it in his voice, see it in his gestures and sense it in the stories newspapers tell of him. The Chinese Prime Minister, Li Keqiang, has abundant charm. Karan Thapar writes.
Call me a Duckworth-Lewis squib, but it's the T20 we're talking about. What did you expect? Proceedings against bribes paid for a role in The Swan Lake at the Bolshoi Ballet leading to the Tchaikovsky estate's dissolution?
Indrajit Hazra reports.
In the last nine years India has been let down by an indifferent UPA and an ineffective Opposition. Well, maybe better luck next time around.
Chanakya writes.