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  • Bollywood and smoking

     India makes the record last year on World No-tobacco Day by becoming the first country to ban all smoking scenes in films and TV. But since its announcement, the unfolding drama surrounding this new law is something like watching a movie itself.Bollywood, the most prolific film producer in the world, has a long history of portraying heroes and villains with cigarettes or hand-rolled "bidis" dangling from their lips.More

  • Priyanka Gandhi: New Queen of Indian Politics

     Some say she is the most charismatic Gandhi today in India’s political firmament. But the riddle that is Priyanka Gandhi is yet to be solved. She has helped her mother Sonia with election campaigning but has never publicly shown any ambition to carve out a political career for herself.More

  • Sonia Gandhi: Loves to fight battles

     Sonia Gandhi loves to fight ‘battles.’ She knows how to turn adversity into opportunity. Faced with the prospect of her party, Congress, being painted into a corner, she herself losing her Loksabha seat and a resurgent Opposition going for the jugular, she countered the situation by relinquishing both her Loksabha membership, as well as the post of chairperson of the National Advisory Board.More

  • Charismatic Rahul Gandhi

     The best part about Rahul Gandhi is that he has so far avoided getting into dicey situations, mostly because he has kept Congressmen and indeed the entire party at arm’s length“I am not here to blame anyone. I am not interested in that. I have to see how we can improve things”After such a long wait, Rahul Gandhi has finally given a "green-signal" that he is ready to accept an organizational responsibility in the Congress party.More

  • India and Pakistan Relationship

     India and Pakistan, as two nations united by history but divided by destiny, are almost like two estranged siblings. Their rivalries over five decades have prevented both the countries from realizing their full economic and geopolitical potential.Since the founding of India and Pakistan as separate states in 1947, the dispute over who should control Kashmir has been one of the world's most enduring and violent conflicts.More

  • India: Look at the Road Ahead

     As the country marches towards yet another Independence Day, it’s high time for some retrospection; how has the country done in the last few years that saw the paradigm shift in power equations and changing governments? The million-dollar question is: What is our position as compared to our neighbouring countries?India's expertise in the services sector is not yet matched by any of our neighbour.More

  • India's Traditional Art is Dying

     Blame it on the television and multiplex culture in India; The Circus which was once considered as a national heritage is dying.The fact that circus troupes can barely attract enough of a crowd means earning applause from the audience has become an uphill task. According to Circus-goers, it does not excite them anymore.More

  • Fatwa: Take a look

     Fatwa is fast becoming a buzzword. After Osama bin Laden, Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasreen, the Indian tennis sensation, Sania Mirza, also got the taste of fatwa recently.A million-dollar question is: What is fatwa?More

  • Better India, Prosperous South Asia

     No one can deny the fact that India makes up the majority of South Asia by landmass and population, and that’s why better India makes better South Asia. But this is only applicable if India’s brilliant glow were spread over its one billion-plus population, in which case the economic and social revival in its thousand manifestations would also extend across the subcontinent and outlying regions.Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the time of the last general elections said that India is indeed resplendent, sending off rays of light, sparkling like the diadem catching a shaft of the bright early summer sun.More

  • Burma's Iron lady

     Referred to by the Dalai Lama as his 'little sister' this Burmese freedom fighter has tirelessly worked for democracy in her country for the last 16 years...Danubyu, Myanmar. 5 April, 1989: two months before the Tiananmen Square massacre in nearby China.More