Travel to the United States of America has never been an item on my priority list. Even when a lot of my classmates at IIT-Roorkee talked about their dream of travelling to the US for higher studies, I neither shared their enthusiasm nor quite understood it. For me, education never got any ' higher' than good, old graduation. That itself appeared t...

After 15 months in the White House, it has become clear there is no correct way for American allies to deal with President Donald Trump. And pretty much every tactic has been tried.

The fissures dividing the country's richer and poorer halves are ripping open.

My fight was against the extortion racket of private medical institutions, in particular Deemed Universities in Puducherry. How deep is the rot I had not fathomed at the time. But I had heard that it enjoyed powerful patronage.

Moira Donegan readily admits that she didn't know what was coming last fall when she briefly posted a crowdsourced document identifying dozens of men in the publishing industry who reportedly had sexually harassed or assaulted women.

If Hollywood can be punctual, why must Bollywood run on Indian Stretchable Time?

You know that story this week where the Tamil Nadu governor Banwari Lal Purohit touched a reporter's cheek and was then publicly shamed for it till he apologised? I can't get that out of my head because it's the first instance of its kind where journalists got together and demanded an apology in a public letter.

On the 28th day of June 1971, a baby was born in Pretoria, South Africa. If the last words of that sentence had been "Anytown, USA," that baby might be on his way to the presidency.

Exclusive excerpt from Nalini Jameela's book Romantic Encounters Of A Sex Worker

The government has much explaining to do. The people of India have not given it the mandate to destroy the banking system of the country and ruin its economy.

No rape can be condoned, regardless of the ideological colour of the perpetrators. However, if the BJP can be even tangentially dragged into the controversy, the outcry is louder than in other cases.

After Independence, all the way from Jawaharlal Nehru through Indira Gandhi to Rajiv Gandhi, India and the Nonaligned Movement had stood four-square behind Palestine because the Palestinian cause was an anti-Imperialist and anti-colonial cause.

For three weeks ending last weekend in Texas, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was the most celebrated foreign leader to visit the U.S. since China's Deng Xiaoping almost 40 years ago. MBS, as he's called, was embraced by the administration of President Donald Trump. He saw former President Bill Clinton, leading tech executives, entertainment...

The irrepressible Digvijaya Singh, 71, is back from his six-month Narmada Yatra - he traversed every constituency in Madhya Pradesh, which he has served twice as Chief Minister. Singh, who looks fighting fit, has lost six kgs in these six months, told me in an exclusive interview that he is a "changed man" and he is "not in the running to be Chief ...

India's journey to keep every Indian healthy has only just begun. This new willingness to look up the steep climb from the current 1.4% of GDP spend on health to an average of 10% in the developed world, is exciting.