Banking on politics

It’s in Modi’s best interests to not meddle in the working of the central bank The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Narendra Modi government are at loggerheads. Media reports now suggest that the government has been sending letters to the RBI under Section 7 of the RBI Act, 1934. As per this section: […]

Tall to tallest

The tallest statue in the world — the Statue of Unity — was unveiled recently. Patriot revisits the making of the Statue of Liberty, which stands at half its size, but was the greatest engineering marvel of its time Earlier this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the gigantic statue of Sardar Patel on his […]

The Selfitis Syndrome

The obsession with taking selfies has proved fatal time and again, but the trend is far from dying out. In fact, its gravity has only been increasing with several physical and mental risks attached to it “There have been times when I’ve made cab drivers wait because I could not get the perfect selfie before […]

Top of the morning

‘Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper’. This proverb is often heard when Indians are advised to change their eating habits. so Here’s where the early bird can get a royal repast Breakfast doesn’t have to always be a hurried bread-omelette or idli-sambar. On weekends and holidays, head out and […]

Skimming the surface

Shashi Tharoor’s book takes too many polemical detours to serve as an authentic account of Narendra Modi’s tenure as Prime Minister In His introduction to The Paradoxical Prime Minister (Aleph), Shashi Tharoor berates the binaries of black-and-white in our political discourse and pitches the book as an effort made by “a fair-minded Opposition MP looking […]

#MeToo wave hits Rahul Johri

From Discovery to BCCI, stories on Rahul Johri epitomise what ails top institutions in fixing sexual harassment at the workplace. A character certificate of sorts on Rahul Johri as a “loving father, devoted husband and inspiring leader” has been floating around since his name cropped up among several others on Twitter as part of the […]

AAP enters 2019 arena

Can the Aam Aadmi Party use the work it has done at the local level to wrest some of the seven Lok Sabha seats from the BJP? It is certainly trying Mukim Ahmed runs a biryani business. He voted for the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections and the Congress in the Vidhan Sabha. But […]

To Japan and beyond

For residents of Delhi, Japanese cuisine is only a short drive away — and now there is one more reason to visit Sakura for its pan-Asian menu. The legendary Japanese restaurant Sakura at The Metropolitan Hotel & Spa, recently introduced a delectable new Asian Cuisine menu. Having served authentic Japanese delicacies for more than two […]