It’s a tough call for the BSP: the closer it gets to Muslims, the more it alienates upper castes
- COVER STORY
How the SP’s anti-BJP rhetoric and the BJP’s anti-SP stance could cost the BSP dear
After the 2014 Lok Sabha polls not a single opportunist from the Congress party has quit or crossed over to the BJP side. Why?
Beyond the glamour and hype of celebrity designers, handloom is still a dying craft of poor weavers
Behind Cyrus Mistry’s booting out was his doggedly independent action, and Ratan Tata’s intolerance of it
Never confined to ‘disturbed areas’ alone, excesses are becoming increasingly normal in every sphere of policing
The market square is full of people fitting the “all is well” mould. But I see the emptiness that needs filling...
How the SP’s anti-BJP rhetoric and the BJP’s anti-SP stance could cost the BSP dear
After the 2014 Lok Sabha polls not a single opportunist from the Congress party has quit or crossed over to the BJP side. Why?
Beyond the glamour and hype of celebrity designers, handloom is still a dying craft of poor weavers
There’s little clarity on the real reasons behind Mistry’s ouster
Behind Cyrus Mistry’s booting out was his doggedly independent action, and Ratan Tata’s intolerance of it
Gopinath Munde once said he’d told cops to eliminate goons
If the videos are true, the killings amount to brutal murder
Never confined to ‘disturbed areas’ alone, excesses are becoming increasingly normal in every sphere of policing
The market square is full of people fitting the “all is well” mould. But I see the emptiness that needs filling...
OTHER STORIES
After Arnab Goswami’s resignation from Times Now, a storm of what-next rumours
£5 mn can buy permanent UK residency for wanted crooks. No wonder arms dealer Sudhir Choudhrie, defaulter Vijay Mallya and scamster Lalit Modi live honourably in London.
On November 1, 1956, India’s cartography was remapped by picking up the fragments of feudal principalities and building on the ruins of British presidencies.
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis on the reason behind the Maratha protests and his vision for inclusive growth in the state
The India-Japan summit is ripe with possibilities, but China casts an unblinking eye on proceedings
Hockey stutters; cricket reigns still. Spurred by foreign action on TV and domestic leagues, football is conquering India’s young.
The director of <em>Lagaan, Swades</em> and <em>Mohenjo Daro</em>, is now hero of a Marathi film, <em>Ventilator</em>. It’s produced by Priyanka Chopra and directed by Rajesh Mapuskar.
Chetan Bhagat's runaway blockbuster and another quiet yet surprising exit in the publishing world
It is the search for the origin of zero, without which it is impossible to imagine the modern day world

















