A tax of 25 per cent, higher than any other tax rate, implies that the activity is believed to be undesirable and, so, falls in the same category as smoking or gambling. Surely, golf and golfers deserve better treatment! Rajiv Inamdar writes.
Thanking people who participated in a discussion on a resolution he had proposed, Congress MP Vijay Jawaharlal Darda named his party colleague wrongly as ‘Mabel Riberio’.
Oh shit. It turns out that there is a bad, bad person in the new clean government. Or is there? Thankfully, nothing’s been confirmed, writes Indrajit Hazra.
And why, pray, do we have a picture of a semi-naked gentleman on this page? That’s not just any semi-naked gent, my friend. That’s Bruno, the gay Austrian fashion journalist.
If I were Pranab Mukherjee I would wish I had a time machine — to go back to 2004 when the UPA began its first innings and finding money for a new scheme was the last of the worries its finance minister had, writes Rajesh Mahapatra.
Television is full of them, people famous for being famous. They do nothing of consequence, say things left better unsaid and still make a career out of providing grist for shows and chatter on popular media, including online message boards, writes
Sanchita Sharma.
Making it the capital would do Bangalore — and India — a world of good. The city’s identity crisis would be resolved for good. It would stop being conflicted between its laid back small town self and its identity as a global city. Its infrastructure problems would be addressed seriously, like Delhi’s have been, writes Samrat.
Laptops are fast replacing notebooks. Is this the end of note-taking in class?
In 1951, my parents had moved from Madras to Kandla in Gujarat leaving me behind at Loyola College. Since my father worked for the Railways, I was entitled to a First Class pass, recollects V Ramasubban.
Whatever be the case for culture as invested in geography, it’s evident that any pro-people, visionary government will invest in culture as a binding force and an important building block of Indian identity, writes Renuka Narayanan.
While I am sure there has been a racial element in these attacks, there has also been an element of robbery pure and simple, and of random, big city violence, writes Greg Sheridan.
Railway catering is certainly going places. No matter where you travel now, your food will taste just the same.
A South African worker was fired for calling his boss a "serial masturbator" on social networking site Facebook,
The Times newspaper said on Wednesday.
The combination of religion and technology, however blasphemous it may have been seen to be a few decades ago, is a fact of life today, writes Rajiv Arora.
Before the Congress went into the Lok Sabha elections, its president Sonia Gandhi had called a meeting of spokespersons to discuss the party’s media strategy for the polls.