Though Austen had her detractors like Charlotte Bronte, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain, they were outnumbered by her admirers like Sir Walter Scott, Anthony Trollope, Virginia Woolf, who called her the first truly great female author and the first good English author to have ...
At a time when the debate on censorship -- on TV and the social media -- is at an all-time high, one of the most popular faces on YouTube has called for a kind of self-regulation, both among content generators and consumers....
If he responds to the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) overtures to join the saffron brigade either formally or informally with the BJP propping up his government with outside support, he will be accused of crass opportunism....
On the eve of the May 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections, Arun Jaitley shared his campaign experiences with some editors. When he attacked Mamata Bannerjee and the Left-Congress front in equal measure, the crowd's response was tepid. When he attacked the Trinamool for 60 percent of his speech, there was some applause. But when his speech was 75...
Mohammad Shafiq, 52, lives with his family in a small hutment in a graveyard in Kanpur's Idgah Colony, and used to earn his living by procuring meat from the nearby government slaughterhouse and selling it by the roadside....
A month after 20-year-old Sanjay Giri was lynched by a mob here, police are yet to file a First Information Report (FIR) on his death or arrest anyone....
This 26-year-old writer has recently been bestowed the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Purashkar 2017 for his English book "The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore" -- and he says that "historical non-fiction" will never lose its relevance as it brings out the truest version of events by filtering out political bia...
The floundering that marks the Donald Trump presidency so far may be due to his ignoring a crucial -- and tested -- tenet of US Presidential politics since the last half century: Appointing an efficient "gatekeeper" in the White House, letting him work unhindered and supporting him fully when needed....
Congress leader Jyotiradtiya Scindia says the party should project a chief ministerial candidate in Madhya Pradesh for the assembly polls next year, a decision he feels should have been taken six months ago....
Gopalkrishna Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, is an acclaimed civil servant, diplomat and governor, who is a strong votary of secular ethos, and has clear and independent views. ...
