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A still from Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety.

Shobhaa's Take: Bromance, sans fake sentiments, is in the air

Male friendships operate on some other, far more impersonal plane.

24 March 2018 12:31 AM IST

It is definitely a very enhanced space compared to what you normally live in.

Mystic Mantra: A pilgrimage subdues senses

In terms of the destination, the Kailash and Manasarovar pilgrimage is probably the greatest that one can make.

23 March 2018 2:41 AM IST

Taslima Nasrin with her cat Minu at her New Delhi home (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)

India is much safer. Democracy is far more entrenched here... I feel...

I feel at home here. It is important for one to feel at home, which I feel in India, says Taslima Nasrin.

23 March 2018 2:37 AM IST

Jawaharlal Nehru

India's regional policy: Still meddle and muddle

Afghanistan is no longer the glacis on which the war for India will be fought. Neither are Tibet and Xinjiang buffers...

23 March 2018 2:24 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: AI could be very unhealthy

A man who lives like a robot, howsoever efficient and successful, cannot be called a living person, as life and...

22 March 2018 1:17 AM IST

More than three lakh farmers in India have committed suicide since the bioimperialists entered our agriculture through globalisation and the so-called free trade .

Indigenous seeds can end farmer suicides

People are rendered redundant, disposable, useless in the very logic of the fossilised paradigm.

22 March 2018 1:13 AM IST

A person reading the Holy Quran

Mystic Mantra: Heritage of inclusivity

In today's polarising times, such advocacy of inclusivity and pluralism over religious exclusivism really matters.

21 March 2018 12:36 AM IST

Even though India has scrapped the earlier multi-billion contract for 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) programme and decided to go in for only 36 Rafales, the government will select at least one more aircraft besides Tejas to be built in India. (Photo: PTI)

The perils of fighter price fixing

Huge delays and the resulting rising costs have marred the modernisation programme and timely replenishment of inventory...

21 March 2018 12:32 AM IST

The FCRA Act was amended in 2010 and made more stringent. (Representational image)

Retrofit: Netas' conspiracy? Change in FCRA sinister

Using a sub-account of a foreign institutional investor or foreign portfolio investor, one could mask the identity of...

21 March 2018 12:29 AM IST

Stephen Hawking

Mystic Mantra: Sharing happiness

Many people lack even the basic necessities of life and yet are happy and grateful.

20 March 2018 12:43 AM IST

Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft (Photo: Youtube screengrab)

How long must IAF wait for its new fighter?

The Indian Air Force had long decided that the MiG-21 had to be replaced at the earliest.

20 March 2018 12:37 AM IST

Theresa Mays spokesman told reporters that international aid minister Penny Mordaunt was meeting Oxfam representatives on Monday to consider what further steps needed to be taken over a sexual misconduct scandal in Haiti. (Photo: File)

Of sharing culture' & Russian spies'

The most dangerous threat given by the UK so far is that its team may not attend the football World Cup in Russia.

19 March 2018 6:49 AM IST