V Pattabhi Ram

BJP loses 0-5 in the semifinals

With an incredible defeat the NDA needs to rethink on what its realities are. It was the muffler man who first showed that the much-hyped...

The statue of unity and other statues

When I think of statues, I think of Mayawati, the four-time chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. She spent the state coffers in setting up...

Coming up: big-ticket changes

There is an urgent need to alter the way students learn and teachers teach engineering. Mandatory internship in industry, and compulsory pre-course orientation for...

From touch to talk

Virtual Assistants, like Alexa, will soon dominate the world and become as ubiquitous as e-mail. At Amazon, Alexa’s birthplace, a large multi-cultural, multi-functional team works...

Petrol should scale Mount 200

Recently, in the city of Amravati, petrol price did the unthinkable: it crossed L K  Advani’s age. Nonagenarian ‘petrol’ should soon hit a hundred and...

When God deserted his own country

Every tragedy, whatever the cause, calls for united action. Kerala saw this year, what Chennai had seen three years ago: unprecedented floods. Something like...

‘The Devil’s Advocate’: He changed the face of interviewing…

Karan Thapar spins a lovely yarn. You may not like the way he harangues guests in his talk shows. He is known to raise...

I MAY NOT VOTE

Nine months from today India will go to the polls to elect the government that will rule it between 2019 and 2024. Should I go...

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