TIGER CAGED

The conviction of Salman Khan in the blackbucks case comes as a surprising twist in the drama that is the top Bollywood actor’s life. The hero has been painted as a villain The tiger is still alive but now caged. Like his role in “Ek Tha Tiger” (2012) and its sequel “Tiger Zinda Hai” (2017), […]

SCORCHING STATISTICS

The met department says there is 47 per cent probability of maximum temperature being more than normal in states of northern and central India, with heat wave conditions expected  In line with the global trend, 2016 was one of the warmest years on record for India since 1901. The scene might be worse this time. The […]

PRESIDENTS FOR LIFE

With the presidentship of Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China secured, they will working together to contain the US Vladimir Putin will stay president for the next six years after having won 75.9 per cent of the vote in just concluded elections. This will ensure his dominance of the world’s largest country […]

A TALE OF DRAMA AND PASSION

After making bold films with a strongly feminist theme, Aruna Raje has penned her own life story, full of rich material that could inspire a film Aruna Raje Patil started her career as one of the first woman technicians in the Hindi film industryand went on to become a famous film-maker. She started out making […]

DALIT ANGER ERUPTS

Changes to the SC/ST Act were just the trigger. The Bharat Bandh gave expression to the pent-up anger of disadvantaged sections against casteism in our society The recent protests by Dalits youth across the country protesting dilution of the SC/ST Act indicates a huge shift in the Indian social fabric. The upsurge of Dalit community […]

TRUE OR FALSE?

You really don’t want the government to decide what’s fake and what’s real. That’s why there is all-round relief that attempts have been frustrated to punish journalists Now that the good folks at the Prime Minister’s Office have decided that the government should not bother itself with thinking of ways to check fake news, journalists […]

DO WE NEED THAT PLASTIC CARD?

Press freedom is best secured by journalists refusing government accreditation or perhaps, even better, the government scrapping it It was an eventful April 3, 2018, when Union Cabinet Minister of Textiles and Information & Broadcasting Smriti Irani, started a veritable bushfire by issuing an order to check ‘fake news’ by threatening to pull the accreditation […]

CONGRESS INCHES AHEAD

Shuffling the leaders’ deck and betting on the young, Rahul Gandhi is moving to revamp the party ahead of 2019 elections Somehow, the Congress now appears to be on a fast, brisk and neoteric run. A change of personae in the party that started alongside the Gujarat elections, catapulting Rahul Gandhi to the top, has, […]