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Constitutional crisis in Nepal likely to worsen

The constitutional crisis in Nepal is deepening by the day, with no resolution in sight in the near future. Although the incumbent Maoist-led government has...

US warns UK against EU exit

In a dramatic public intervention, the US has warned Britain that it risks damaging its relationship with Washington if it leaves the European Union....

‘Bibi failed to make peace with Palestinians’

Shimon Peres, the Israeli President, has attacked Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that the Prime Minister's unwillingness to make peace with the Muslim world risks another...

It’s time for police reform

Policing in India in the 21st century is still guided by the 1862 Indian Police Act, passed by a colonial power deeply distrustful of...

India, Russia ready to energise ties

New Delhi and Moscow may see a rejuvenation of ties to the closeness the two nations enjoyed in the past, thanks to the shale...

Fewer freshers will be hired in ’13

IT companies have a high bench strength, which may lead to a decrease in the hiring of freshers this year, say industry experts. Factors...

Employees hopeful KFA will fly again

The employees of Kingfisher Airline are hopeful that Vijay Mallya's company will be back in business even though its flying permit was cancelled last...

Sahara Real Estate sits on bond allegations

The Sahara India Real Estate Corporation (SIRECL) is yet to reply to the allegations made by a few investors regarding forceful conversion of SIRECL...

Porsche made Indian importers pay 30% more

Porsche AG has been found guilty of cheating its Indian importers by a Jaipur court. Porsche's former Indian importers had accused the company of...

Domestic airlines lower prices for February-April

Indian aviation companies are offering discounts in order to cope with the shortage of passengers, which is common in the February to April period....

Indian Law Institute, Harvard sign MoU

A memorandom of understading (MoU) was signed between the Indian Law Institute (ILI) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) on 9 January...

Is it the end of Virender Sehwag’s career in ODIs?

Virender Sehwag is virtually at the end of his ODI career after being dropped from the opening three matches against England. With the next...

AITA picks second-string team for Davis Cup

In an unprecedented move, the All India Tennis Association was forced to pick a second string team for the Davis Cup tie against South...

Music Review: The Boys Are Back

Still the rowdy Boston boys bringing their signature Celtic rock and punk-infused madness on the party scene (or crime scene, because why not?), the...

Music Review: Noise or Music?

Part of the Live at Clouds Hill box-set, the Omar Rodriguez Lopez (The Mars Volta's master of puppets) and Faust (i.e. German Krautrock experts...

Flowing drapes and fluid limbs

I moved here (Delhi) from New York specifically to do this. It was very detailed, very much thought-out, a written proposal," recalls artist Briana...

Of Calcutta, and its dying Jewish culture

It is not surprising that most of us wouldn't know much about the Bengali Jewish community in Calcutta given that only about 27 of...

Traversing Marxist tropes in modern historiography

Q. Why do some historians prefer to study history from a Marxist Approach?A. The designation 'Marxist' is shorthand for a particular hypothesis which states...

Taiwan Diary: Dispatches from a windy island

Looking at the map, it is easy to mistake Taiwan for an accidental stain straddling the Tropic of Cancer. Cradled by the Pacific, rocked...

Bringing the peripheries of the nation-state into the mainstream

The second edition of the festival, Cultures of Peace: Festival of the North-East, organized by Zubaan, will be a two day affair, from 18-19...

Book Review: Assorted leaves from the diary of an Indian liberal

In a footnote to an article written for the Economic and Political Weekly, Ramachandra Guha recalls a saying of the renowned Indian sociologist MN...

It’s a no-brainer from O’Brien

The emergence of the World Wide Web has made printed encyclopaedias almost obsolete. After all, why buy expensive, heavy bound volumes when you can...

The very best of Bill Gates

A collection of quotes culled from years and years of old interviews, that too from one of the most widely-quoted men in modern times....

Book Review: Banerjee’s essays are a banal mish-mash of sound bytes

On a recent edition of Newshour, Arnab Goswami, the patron saint of prime time histrionics was having a field day. An invitee to his...

Lessons in Cool 101: Ditch your bike for a decked-up scooter

Reviving what was once cool seems to be the easiest way to do something new these days. The recently launched Delhi Scooter Club appears...

Ensler reading from I am an emotional creature

"Are there any vaginas in the house?!" shouted Eve Ensler, famous playwright, and founder of the 'One Billion Rising' Campaign and Vday, to an...

In search of home & hearth on a cold winter night

At 11:30 in the night, the shelter for homeless people at Chandni Chowk is packed fully. A tiny television buzzes in the distance while...

Storytelling makes learning a fun & invigorating process

India is a land of storytelling, with each state having its distinct style like the bhajana, villadichampattu, and burra katha. However, this once-popular form...

Abstract theatre rendered both accessible and poetic

Abstraction was never cool, even when it was cool. Almost always, there would be the omniscient naysayer who'd say that a much-fancied (which means,...

The baggage of obscenity

The Kingsmen's 1964 version of Louie Louie was written in 1955 by R&B singer Richard Berry. Richard Berry's group the Pharaohs also recorded this...

Mickey the Second suffers from sequelitis

Developer: Junction Point Studios/Blitz Games StudiosPublisher: Disney Interactive StudiosGenre: 3D PlatformerPrice: Rs. 699 for PC(Also available for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360)The first Epic...

Controller-Console goes portable

One can't be quite sure what to call Nvidia's latest wonder – this joystick with a small screen, for all practical purposes is a...

Huge storehouse of the best of indie music

The independent music scene the world over has registered increased visibility in the last few years thanks to the internet and websites such as...

Preserving the Internet for posterity, even as it evolves

If there's a museum to its name, it has certainly created history. But the Internet, a product that belongs very much in the here...

Moonstruck inventors send desi rover to lunar terrain

Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam once said, "You have to dream before your dreams can come true". These words seem to have inspired a...

Tracing the trajectory of Indian cinema, 100 years on

It's been 100 years since Dadasaheb Phalke created history by releasing India's first full-length feature film, Raja Harishchandra. To mark the occasion, the School...

Movie Review: From Killa to Masta

The opening sequence says all there is to say about a martial arts film starring Tarantino protégé and hip-hop star, RZA – this will...

A superficial satire

A song that rips apart every health awareness campaign, home remedy, and old wives' tale the average Indian has been assaulted with, followed by...

Telling the secrets of the nuclear story

The Uranium Film Festival was held in Delhi this weekend to allow audiences to gather a nuanced overview of the global issue of nuclear...

Trier’s eloquent, existential treatise on the human cost of addiction

If there's any subject that's been done to death in serious-minded cinema, it is drug addiction. All the approaches have been covered, from the...

Ayushman launches all in one store

Bollywood actor Ayushman Khurana inaugurated the Gili World store at M-Block Market, Greater Kailash. Gili also recently launched a new range of apparels and...

Global Punjabi society awards the extraordinary

The Global Punjabi Society does not intend to reach out to just Punjabis across the world. Wherever, whenever we have the opportunity to reach...

Festival to promote the North East

The Northeast Fashion Fest 2013 was announced with a press conference at The Ashok Hotel, Chanakyapuri, and is to be held in Guwahati from...

Stylish bash for new line

Designer Jyoti Sharma hosted a get together to celebrate the success of her collection Nrpsuta – Regalia of a modern Princess showcased at WLIFW. The guests witnessed a fashion...

Break the Prohibition code, relive the spirit of the ’20s

A cold winter evening, a PCO booth, three trench coats and a one-time password – 1350# .The door on our right unlocks for precisely...

Flavours from the Valley warm the capital

Living in the hot plains, one cannot stomach Kashmiri food the whole year round. With this in mind, Singh Sahib at the Eros Hilton...

Silence is Violence, We Take It No More

Recently my best friend and I struck upon an idea that elicited many naughty chuckles from our friends. We started with feminist revisions of...

Music Review: Apocalypse-like

Bell WitchLongingProfound Lore Between their name and the eerily haunting cover of their six-track debut LP 'Longing', you get a very good idea of this...

Music Review: An array of beats

One half of legendary rap duo Outkast, Antwan André Patton or Big Boi's latest album, 'Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumours', tells the tale a...

An Open Letter to Honey Singh

Dear Yo Yo Honey,Listen. What was your first word? 'Ma'?Words are one of the first things we ache for. A baby learns to say...

CHRISTIANITY: Fruit of the Spirit: I

AAP vs BJP in South Delhi will see battle of the MLAs

Bengal police, TMC attempt to blunt Sandeshkhali protests

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