View: BBC's craven conduct underlines what lies at the heart of the corporationBBC was recently rocked on its heels by a self-manufactured controversy. Its programme, Match of the Day, is known, by the BBC's own admiss...
25 Mar, 2023, 08.44 PM IST
How 'Sensitivity Readers' are dividing publishing world in two parts - censorship or evolutionAccusations of censorship began flying almost immediately from observers who fear sanitized literature could whitewash the past as well as ...
18 Mar, 2023, 04.38 PM IST
Guerrilla Fighter: How Raj Thackeray is making an unlikely political comebackRaj Thackeray is leveraging oratory and earthy charisma to become a challenge for the BJP-Shiv Sena combine.
28 Apr, 2019, 07.37 AM IST
Meet Parth Pawar, next in line for the NCP throneParth Pawar, the scion NCP, will be contesting from the electoral battleground of Maval.
07 Apr, 2019, 06.37 AM IST
Political documentaries are taking over at the Toronto International Film FestivalMany modern societies are put under the microscope in films at TIFF Docs this year.
16 Sep, 2018, 10.34 AM IST
Sports is the new politics at the 42nd Toronto International Film FestivalAnurag Kashyap’s Mukkabaaz is part of a new trend in which filmmakers around the world are using sports as a medium to explore tensions in ...
17 Sep, 2017, 12.13 AM IST
Rio Olympics: Will the biggest contingent of Indian athletes result in the highest ever medal haul too?Rio 2016, which is slated to take place from August 5 to 21, is already gearing up for what could be one of the most controversy ridden gam...
24 Jul, 2016, 01.39 PM IST
What bogged down a Rs 3,000-crore GAIL pipeline project in Tamil NaduAs TN heads towards polls in a couple of months, development is on the agenda. How to stem such enormous losses of taxpayer money too shoul...
21 Feb, 2016, 06.20 AM IST
Why Jammu & Kashmir's women's cricket team is battling all odds for a good inningsThe team doesn’t have a coach or a place to practice. They play on matted pitches with some lacking the equipment.
06 Dec, 2015, 08.05 AM IST
India's pluralism: Traditional cuisines of Tamil Nadu largely about meat & fishWhether it is Chettinadu or the lesser known Kongunadu and Nanjil Nadu cuisines, Tamil Nadu’s flavours are largely displayed through meat d...
11 Oct, 2015, 10.19 AM IST
Why Tamil Nadu is likely to be a battleground for conflicting, contradictory ideologiesIn Periyar country, Hindutva groups and rationalist atheist Dravidians go head to head ahead of the 2016 elections.
10 May, 2015, 10.01 AM IST
Kiss of Love protest: How Kochiites' dilemma 'to kiss or not to kiss' went viralWith the word ‘kiss’ in the air, testosterone ran high. Shops stocked up on mouth fresheners and the youth began to practice furiously on p...
09 Nov, 2014, 01.04 PM IST
Why frequent shuffling of governors in Mizoram is causing resentment among peopleThanks to the NDA govt’s overdrive to get rid of governors appointed by UPA, Mizoram ended up having four governors in less than two months.
31 Aug, 2014, 04.25 PM IST
Gurunath Meiyappan also gave information on other teams to bookies: PoliceThe report also reveals that Meiyappan bet Rs 1.1 crore on the Super Kings to lose against Rajasthan Royals on May 12, 2013.
07 Mar, 2014, 04.00 AM IST