“Thirty-two percent people in Mumbai do not feel safe. 36% people do not feel safe for women, children and senior citizens in their own localities, 36% do not feel safe while travelling from one place to the other within the city and 37% do
Ever seen an eagle turf an eaglet out of the nest purely because it was of the feminine gender? Heard of a cheetah who refused to teach his daughter how to run and hunt because he was too busy teaching his sons? Perhaps Lassie refusing the female
Sahil got a shock when the bank employee told him that one of the 20 notes of Rs 500 he had brought to deposit was a counterfeit. He was also embarrassed – at being fooled as well as being possibly taken for a criminal. He first argued that
The nation is in ferment once more. Indignation is overflowing. All good men are frothing at their mouths. The target is old and familiar – black money. The outrage is understandable. For we are the worthy citizens who pay taxes in time, to
India’s huge appetite for energy with disproportionate dependence on hydrocarbons and its consequent impact on foreign reserves puts us in an insecure position. What is the government’s overall strategy? It is n
Forty-one-year-old Roopa Vasudeva was a fun-loving and always-laughing corporate trainer at a Gurgaon company. But in April this year her world came crashing down on her when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. “I was exactly the same age
The debate stealing the limelight in the past few weeks has been about the new fervour in the government to control the burgeoning problem of black money in the country. Prime minister Narendra Modi has been reiterating his pledge to battle black
The supreme court on Thursday asked CBI director Ranjit Sinha to stay out of the agency’s investigation into the 2G scam. In a major embarrassment for the country’s premiere investigation agency, the apex court said it found &ldq
Indian Media’s self absorption with itself and the canopy of importance under which it dwells has changed a great deal in the half century since we became journalists. This was profoundly discernible in the coverage of the Hisar ‘hosta
Justice Leila Seth has many firsts to her credit. She is the first woman to top the bar examinations in London in 1958, the first woman judge in the Delhi high court and the first woman to become chief justice of a state high court. She was also a
Former union minister GK Vasan, who broke away from the Congress on November 3, cannot be underestimated and the new party he is launching this month can rewrite political equations in Tamil Nadu. In 1996, the Congress had a vote s
When I was a child, which is a very long time ago, and my sole identity was that of a grandson, the English song I heard sung over and over again at home, and learnt to sing, was Cardinal Newman’s ‘Lead Kindly Light’, a gre
In the mid-1950s, a group of travelling artistes, mostly puppeteers from Rajasthan, would frequently tour the northern and eastern states, sometimes going as far as Nepal. The money was good, and they got respect. The only problem was finding acco
On October 16, if you had logged on to the IRCTC website and were looking for a ticket on August Kranti Rajdhani Express from Mumbai Central to New Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin station (train number 12953) for the following day, you might have
“If we want sustainable growth we have to care for the weaker sections. That is why this government is focussed on creating smart cities, which would provide economic opportunities to all. This would create an environment for inclusive devel
The recovery of black money stashed abroad had become a hot issue during the elections, with BJP leaders promising to bring it back within 100 days of forming the government. While the Modi government’s position in the supreme court is quite
Eighty-eight percent Indian consumers have read or heard about major retailer data breaches in the past year but fewer than half (45%) admit that data breaches by retailers have increased their concerns about their personal data privacy during the
While Indian government is working on smart cities scheme, it could prioritise on interconnectedness between and within cities and have governance arrangements which may focus on true economic geography of cities, instead of administrative boundar
Delhi’s projected increase in per capita income is one of the largest among a group of global cities including London, New York and Tokyo between 2012 and 2030. According to a report released by London School of Economics (LSE) and Alfred He
Foreign and Indian observers and historians are almost unanimous in their response to the grand question: why India survived as a democracy after Independence? The answer invariably is a five-letter word: Nehru. Even Jawaharlal Nehru’s most
