Fifty years ago on 28 August at Lincoln Memorial Martin Luther King Junior told the huge crowd seeking jobs and freedom of his dream: ‘that one day...

The political posturing in the run up to the 2014 Parliament poll is getting curious by the day with Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on...

It could even happen in China. The last weekend saw China’s local government authorities in the southern Chinese city of Heshan cancelling plans to...

‘Social media are the worst menace to society,’ said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, on 2 June. Many in India, the political class in...

Narendra Damodardas Modi evokes strong sentiments, that of admiration or of aversion. While in sheer numbers, the admirers will overwhelm the...

The Indian generic drug manufacturer Ranbaxy could breathe easy after its plea bargain was accepted in principle at the beginning of 2012. By the end...

Direct selling is not legal in India. It contravenes the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978. There are reasons for the...

All alone people, where do they all come from, sang the Beatles. This is a question, which should occur to anybody who was accustomed to attention...

The maturity of India’s policy formulation process is stamped in what P Chidambaram called as the last budget of the United Progressive Alliance...

How is love in the time of internet? And smartphones? Is it any different from the time when parents of the internet generation had been courting?...

What is so unique about Rahul Gandhi, the Congress vice president? Why is it that politicians with long innings of public life find him irresistible...

Beggars do not make good stories. They are not consumers who can pay for or buy news. They are mostly peripatetic, therefore non-voters. They do not...