Bull's Eye
I haven't read LK. Advani's autobiography yet. But when I think about his career, I think of Hollywood and Bollywood. He has acted in so many roles.
I haven't read LK. Advani's autobiography yet. But when I think about his career, I think of Hollywood and Bollywood. He has acted in so many roles.
Who hasn't heard of the wheeling-dealing Sant Singh Chatwal? And who hasn't heard of his Bombay Palace restaurants?
Sarabjit's clock ticks on. But the case has highlighted the deep Indo-Pak mistrust.
The 'magic box' underpasses can be completed in 30 days and costs a crore unlike normal underpasses that take over a year to build and cost upwards of Rs 25 crore
In drought-prone Bundelkhand an environmental scientist develops filters for contaminants.
Growing trade ties with China force India to be cautious on the Tibetan issue
Young Tibetans want more than autonomy. Free Tibet, they say.
An image-obsessed Beijing is taking no chances with dissent on Olympic eve
The 18-year-old race car driver is gearing up for the 2008 GP2 Asia Series in April
Who hasn't heard of the wheeling-dealing Sant Singh Chatwal? And who hasn't heard of his Bombay Palace restaurants?
The Sarabjit Singh issue needs sane heads, on both sides. It may blow up.
Sarabjit's clock ticks on. But the case has highlighted the deep Indo-Pak mistrust.
The 'magic box' underpasses can be completed in 30 days and costs a crore unlike normal underpasses that take over a year to build and cost upwards of Rs 25 crore
In drought-prone Bundelkhand an environmental scientist develops filters for contaminants.
Kerala government allots Rs 84.11 crores for for improving 20 beaches along the 560-km coastline.
Tamil Nadu becomes the first state to issue ration cards that recognise transsexuals
Health insurance scheme for those afflicted with autism, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and multiple disability
The sort of news that we all would like to see more of -- compiled from across the states.
A BMC plan, a Bombay heritage. Will Crawford Market go down easy?
The kind of romcom which I would have liked in my teens but have no patience for now. It is way too dull and drab for enjoyment of any kind
A Rs 15,000-crore public-private plan, 10 mn skilled labour a year. Can it work?
Khushboo's marathon show has TN glued, even her gaffes are a hit
Health may get redefined for the Indian
In northern Goa, the shacks take a hit in the tourist season. A wanton murder, and lights out early.
Hippie days are over, Goa gets up close with tourism's dark side
The Planning Commission has strong reservations about offering "packaged fortified food" to poor children instead of hot cooked meals.
Rs 5,000 crore—that's a lot to snack on. Renuka's plan gets more flak.
'I knew Pat was dying and Margaret was finished.... It was not that I was trying to displace a dying woman and an old floozy': Nadira
How the area of darkness became a wounded civilisation where, eventually, were found a million mutinies
No hagiography: 'He believed that a less than candid biography would be pointless, and his willingness to allow such a book to be published in his lifetime was at once an act of narcissism and humility.'
Laloo's proposed green toilet could become the foetus that slipped
Advani, French on Naipaul, and now get ready for Jhumpa Lahiri's <i>Unaccustomed Earth</i>, followed by Salman Rushdie's <i>The Enchantress of Florence</i>, and Aravind Adiga's <i>The White Tiger</i>.
This overtly gentle story hides, as do the histories within it, a subterranean violence, and its denouement plays this out to the full.
A fascinating narrative -- "auto-ethnography", a hybrid genre where the author's fictionalised biography intimately mirrors the story of her community.
Here's looking at the crisis behaviour of two nuclear neighbours and the somewhat exaggerated role of US
Capturing the phenomenon that's the Tamil superstar needs narrative and analytical skill. Here, it's myopia.
The book is on his past, but its release is a gesture to the future. Advani, in Atal mode.