As a self-confessed "secular fundamentalist", I believe this is the time and juncture for me to stand up and say that Shashi Tharoor is spot on: the Bharat which the Hindutva forces are pledged to realize would be a mirror image of Muslim Pakistan, thus making of secular India a 'Hindu Pakistan'.

There has been much talk lately of opposition parties uniting to face the BJP juggernaut in the next Lok Sabha elections. It stands to reason that they should do so since there is no other way of unseating the present government.

The northern white rhino isn't going out with the thundering charge that it's due. It won't go out in a blaze of glory, fighting a pride of lions, as would befit such an inspiring creature. It's going to die sad and old, withering away under armed guard in central Kenya while dozens of scientists - and millions of other humans around the world - lo...

Swami Vivekananda rightly said that in kicking a ball, one is much closer to the Divine than in prayer. A ball can indeed change the world!

Yes, the time has to come call a spade a spade. The effort is on to make India a theological state, the Hindu Rashtra. That project was designed in 1925 when the RSS was founded, it can be achieved only by suppressing all kinds of views and ideologies different from theirs, just like what happened in Pakistan and by trampling over the constitution ...

And what we have found, if we can just hold onto it, is that part of us that works with community, the part that puts someone else ahead of ourselves, the part that gives while asking nothing in return. It can change the world in the doing.

The Nano's failure to sell stands in stark contrast to the rest of the Indian car market. From motorbikes to cars and trucks, growth in every segment is picking up.

For the third time in succession, Pakistan goes to the polls on July 25 to elect both the new parliament (called in Pakistan the National Assembly) and the four provincial assemblies of Punjab, Sind, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP, known to Indian readers more by its previous name, North-West Frontier Province - NWFP).

In one sense though, the apex court has said nothing new. It has only reiterated the existing norm that an elected government is the principal authority in a state administration. The confusion arises because Delhi is a state and yet not a state.

Whatever a somewhat desperate-sounding pack of Bharatiya Janata Party spokespersons might say, the Supreme Court's judgment in the Delhi government's case against its Lieutenant Governor is a big victory for the people of Delhi - and, if only incidentally, for the Aam Aadmi Party.

Until we find strong evidence to the contrary, it appears to be a case of mass suicide.

Don't know about the critics, but I felt Sanjay Dutt deserved a more honest, layered portrayal...not the victim narrative or the cheap trick of a misunderstood man with a heart of gold.

Time to now focus on governance. AAP is in charge now.

The Supreme Court ruling came after a fierce turf war between the newbie Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Modi-led central government which has lasted for nearly three and a half years.

There is no end to bad news from the banking sector of our economy. That it has not been in good health for some years was well known, but further evidence of its very poor health became public when it was disclosed a few days ago that the public sector banks have together suffered a whopping loss of 8,50,370 crore in financial year 2017-2018 compa...