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Two famous men have died and many things have been written about them. It is our tradition in India — and also generally speaking around the world — to only say good things about the dead. But no man is perfect and we owe it...

The rupee’s troubles just do not seem to end. The currency experienced a fresh low of 70.20 per dollar – an all-time low Thursday. After opening sharply lower, it extended its fall and depreciated as much as 42 paise to hit intraday all time low...

The ruling BJP has, through a carefully crafted move, taken its campaign for simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies to a new pitch this week. Notably, this is being done at the precise moment when the countdown for the next Lok Sabha...

Indian technology has always had many a detractor, and for good reason. We may have past glory to gloat about, of Aryabhatta being the inventor of the Zero (the basis of all computing today), or of Sanskrit being found to be the best language for...

Curtains fell on the extraordinary life of Vidyadhar Surajprasad Naipaul. He had sketched times and characters through his over 30 books with exemplary ease and classic literary touch. Although Naipaul is of Indian descent, he was in no way an Indian. And his books that...

Nations usually don’t directly take decisions. Democratic nations decide what they are to do through agents — meaning legislators. In places where the executive is elected directly, like the United States, the potential decision maker announces his or her intent to do such and such...

Global gold prices are currently ruling in their lowest in a year. Still, the demand for the yellow metal in the country is dissipating. At least, the numbers say so. The retail price of gold has come down by over 3.5 per cent in a...

The Dravidian-centric southern politics is in for a rude shock. With the demise of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi Tuesday evening, the generational shift in Tamil Nadu politics is just about complete. The demise of another towering leader J Jayalalithaa in December 2016 had dealt a...

The supposed sanctity of Indian judiciary has taken a major hit over the issue of appointment of Justice KM Joseph as a Supreme Court judge. With the Supreme Court collegium and the Union Government taking conflicting stands on the elevation of Joseph from being the...

The long arm of the law is far too short for the Mehul Choksi or Vijay Mallya types. Someone like Choksi is safely out of the reach of Indian laws in the beautiful Caribbean island nation of Antigua. Agencies in India are left wracking their...