The immediate future seems to be bleak for both India Inc and our farmers. Urban consumers like us will not be affected immediately, because food prices are likely to stay low. This could be a blessing in disguise for our official statisticians. The cheaper the food, the more we'll eat. And then, not just Bongs like me, but every Indian will start ...

What does strongman showmanship look like? In India, it's 25,000 tons of steel, 3,550 tons of bronze and 210,000 cubic meters of cement and concrete - towering over the world at a cost of about $400 million.

Rajan strongly opposed the idea of handing supervision of the government securities market to the stock-market regulator.

Recent developments in Pakistan on the Asia Bibi case should serve as a warning for us in India. Although in entirely different circumstances, the relevance for us in India of the Pakistani case is that it was triggered by blatant defiance and opposition to a landmark Supreme Court judgement by zealots operating in the guise of defending religion a...

Two years after India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi shocked the nation by banning high-value cash notes, the opposition is still trying to score political points from the damage done to the economy.

India is home to nine of the world's 10 most-polluted cities. Beyond the health risks, the smog crisis threatens to erode competitiveness just when the country is starting to boast of rapid improvements in its ease-of-doing-business rankings.

Virat Kohli's brilliance as a batsman is globally recognised but he may need to work harder on the masterstroke - to be a more humble person worthy of being idolised by millions, not just in India but also in other cricket-loving countries, two of which he has now asked a fan to go live in.

If polls were correct Hillary Clinton would be President and Donald Trump would have remained a builder. But almost all of them were completely wrong. So Donald Trump is President and Hillary Clinton is still dreaming of being President.

So what story did Ballari tell and what does it mean for the national narrative just weeks before crucial assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh?

The death of a tigress in her prime is always a tragedy, no matter the circumstances that surround it. T1, popularly known as Avni, was shot dead at 11.35 pm on Friday night. In the bigger picture, as I wrote earlier ((hyperlink to earlier piece)), T1 shot or captured alive was dead to conservation goals the day she was marked for removal from the ...

In a statement, M.J. Akbar said his relationship with Pallavi Gogoi was consensual. "This relationship gave rise to talk and would later cause significant strife in my home life as well," the statement reads. "This consensual relationship ended, perhaps not on the best note." He said he's been the subject of "a barrage of false and fabricated accus...

Tip 1: Start thinking of your bedroom as a sacred space like a temple. Or even a hospital.

With 28 days to go for voting, the Congress, now out of power for 15 years in Madhya Pradesh, should sense opportunity and work as a unified force to wrest the state from Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the BJP. Dream on. The Congress, true to character, is making the going difficult for itself.

One is at a complete loss to understand as to why this matter is not an urgent one as far as the Honourable Supreme Court is concerned.

Encapsulated here is the broader failure of this government: it started with such hopes and ambitions, as visible in the decision to give the RBI an independent inflation target; but now it is reduced to scrapping with the RBI over its reserves to fund its populist election spending. And so yet another institution feels its independence slipping aw...