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The 'bumbling liberal' & the 'neo-fascist' - two sides of the same coin. Neither has place in a moderate India
Lalitgate has served as a reminder for how similar our mainstream political parties are in resisting institutional reform.
Did misplaced national pride inhibit the avowed feminist in Barkha Dutt from calling a spade a spade on women's safety in India?
India's 30 million Twitter users now run roughshod over what's newsworthy for a population of nearly 1.3 billion people.
Hatred against Monika Lewinsky and kindness towards a Canadian teen - both online - raise key question: why campaign for online freedom outshouts that against online bullying
Why must every public structure or initiative be bequeathed to the legacy of political icons?
Tarun Tejpal's ouster from the Times of India literary carnival after a Twitter upheaval poses many moral dilemmas
The Winter Session of Parliament will be a litmus test for the PM's legislative reforms push & the market must prepare to be disappointed.
Understanding the economic imperatives of sanitation on the second annual World Toilet Day
Project viability, environmental battles, funding, high debt and demand for coal are the key concerns regarding the project
Food remains a great political tool to keep alive implicit caste boundaries in the modern Indian context
PM Narendra Modi's pitch to weavers, urging them to use e-commerce to sell their weaves could be a game changer for this ancient cottage industry
India needs stricter laws to ensure it doesn't become a dumping ground for American food MNCs
Centre keen to take over the iconic bungalow, but prominent citizens object. Both sides have a point.
Importing valuable lessons on governance and public policy from Bhutan
An approach that makes small tweaks rather than fails on big promises is the need of the hour says a study.
If under Manmohan Singh, there was an information deficit, under Modi there is a dialogue deficit.We now have a PM who speaks often, but only from behind the social media smokescreen.
Foes turned friends? Shashi Tharoor fawns over the new PM in a new Huffington Post op-ed
New launches, improved sentiment and rural demand, fuelled by high election spending breathe new life into Motown