Ramaswamy as POTUS? Why not?While the desi quotient of Nikki Haley, who announced her candidature for Potus on Valentine's Day, may be low - despite Nimrata Nikki Hale...
24 Feb, 2023, 12.50 AM IST
View: The Indian intellygentsia has finally found US politics worth followingWhile Barack Obama’s swearing-in may have caught the interested Indian’s imagination in 2009 simply because Indians finally wanted to hitch...
20 Jan, 2021, 11.38 PM IST
View: Apples and oranges, and the fudge of Question HourIn 2012, according to PRS Legislative Research Data, 656, 404 and 400 starred questions (oral queries meant for oral replies) were asked in...
09 Sep, 2020, 11.11 PM IST
‘This is the Indian century’: Jeff Bezos goes desi, makes big ‘Make in India’ pledge, talks climate changeBezos, clad in a vibrant blue-coloured Nehru jacket, talked of the world’s largest democracy leaping ahead.
15 Jan, 2020, 02.33 PM IST
Making a call on democracy, desi styleHow to give a well-deserved boost to iconic booths, in a truly Indian way.
31 Dec, 2019, 08.25 AM IST
A business op for desi democracyJapanese entrepreneurs cash in on canned air of royalty.
25 Apr, 2019, 08.38 AM IST
In UK, rallying call to Indian votersNRIs feel they have a strong influence back home and want to send out the message that they are as involved as can be in the polls.
19 Mar, 2019, 10.24 AM IST
The circus is dead, long live the circusThe government’s move comes in response to a long-standing plea by animal rights organisations that circuses should be prohibited from expl...
02 Dec, 2018, 11.20 PM IST
Miller in fray to be 2nd Indian-American woman to enter US House of RepresentativesHyderabad-born Miller, 53, a civil engineer and a Maryland State Delegate, came to the US in 1972 when she was seven.
25 Jun, 2018, 10.58 AM IST
View: India’s progressives don’t get the real reason for Lenin’s bulldozingThe Lenin affair won’t distract attention from the main lesson of northeast polls: that the BJP is now a truly pan-Indian party.
11 Mar, 2018, 11.39 AM IST
Is middle-class India tweeting more than eating?In a crowded food market, how do brands make themselves relevant?
14 Feb, 2017, 03.34 PM IST
Record 5 Indian-Americans set to be elected to US CongressInterestingly, the outgoing US President Barack Obama had endorsed Harris, Krishnamoorthi and Bera.
09 Nov, 2016, 01.04 PM IST
Richer Britain will be poorer in spirit and standingSo when the Brexit Referendum rolled around, I was optimistic that once again, the people of this country would vote for community over iso...
26 Jun, 2016, 10.59 AM IST
Congress condemns paint attack on Sudheendra Kulkarni, dubs Shiv Sena as 'Desi Taliban'Stating that such kind of intolerance cannot be accepted in the country, he said, "First Ghulam Ali concert and now Kasuri's book launch. W...
12 Oct, 2015, 03.49 PM IST
Neither Narendra Modi nor Rahul Gandhi fit to become PM: Anna HazareHazare also favoured direct election of prime minister and doing away with party-based political system, which he claimed has destroyed dem...
23 Aug, 2013, 01.31 PM IST
Risk to democracy: Business houses shoudn't get bank licencesThe citizens of India will be called upon to pay for follies associated with building inefficient steel plants badly and pricing telephone ...
05 Jul, 2013, 12.13 PM IST
- Why just another Parliament House, build a new city instead
Finding a new spot for Parliament, as some want, in already crowded and expensive Delhi is almost impossible, too.
16 Jul, 2012, 06.41 AM IST