Enemy at the gates

The American business magnate John. D Rockefeller once said “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity”. While the objective of Rockefeller, widely considered the w[...]

Tuning into Anurag

Anurag Kashyap has quit twitter ostensibly because his family was threatened over his political views. It is difficult to imagine the filmmaker, not known for taking a backward[...]

Trumpery Times

Award winning American actress Tina Fey is of the opinion that “confidence is 10% work and 90 % delusion”, but one suspects that had she been exposed to the bizarre psychology of t[...]

Of the Ulterior

‘Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!’ This might have been the conviction of outspoken actress Swara Bhaskar when she tweeted from an article by historian Rana Safvi which rea[...]

The fuzzy future

Victory is not always winning the battle, but rising every time you fall … Thus spake Napoleon Bonaparte but one suspects now is not the best time to administer this motivational [...]

The Lion of the East

One of the most significant examples of the neglect of the North-Eastern part of India is the near exclusion of legendary figures of the region from the national historical narrati[...]

The final finish

Dhoni, finisher par excellence, but given his onerous responsibilities the title of an ‘enforcer’ would probably have been more appropriate. Not only did he ensure that the matches[...]

The concept of duty is absolute

The concept of duty or kartavya is one of the unique contributions of the Vedas. Duty is an obligation, something that has to be done. The sense of obligation is inevitable in one[...]