Her journey from being a girl from a small village with starry dreams to becoming Bollywood's "Queen" has been full of twists and turns. Actress Kangana Ranaut, who has faced comments on her figure, her accent or even her brutal honesty, says "everybody, every shape or size" has their time of being celebrated like a trend....
Women journalists, like men, should be judged on the basis of their stories rather than their gender in the male-dominated world of journalism where they face "misogyny and patriarchy" on daily basis, renowned Indian scribes said here on Thursday....
The BJP has done enormous disservice to both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian Army with its vitriolic attacks on Congress and AAP leaders over the surgical strikes on terrorist launch pads across the LoC. Modi's fiat to his colleagues not to talk out of turn is welcome and timely....
I can see your eyes narrow and forehead pucker as you recognize my hand. I can hear the muttered “What†as you read on. There are a hundred little things about you that fill me with wonder and dazzle my intellect, which I would love to talk to you about and, that my dear is the reason behind this communiqué. ...
The Uri attack that killed 19 Indian Army soldiers and the subsequent "surgical strikes" across the Line of Control (LoC) that took out an estimated 35-40 militants has seen the ratcheting up of dangerous rhetoric on both sides of the border...
The five states with the largest proportion of literate women -- Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra -- account for 53 per cent (4.3 million) of all business establishments owned by women nationwide, although no more than 33 per cent of India's women live in these states, according to an IndiaSpe...
Asserting that it made little sense in a democracy to jail people for "speaking their minds", senior Biju Janata Dal (BJD) member Tathagata Satpathy has said that the country's age-old defamation laws need an "urgent re-look" and maintained that he would soon move a private member's bill in the Lok Sabha to bring about much-need...
Shaila died in a Karachi hospital on the day when the army camp in Uri was attacked. Threatening war drums kept her brother, Nazim, a dear cousin of mine, from travelling for the last rites. That was the best he could have done. Forbidding paper work would have come in the way of Shaila's burial in the family graveyard in Mustafabad near Rae Bare...
The venerable sages of India, the Buddha, Jesus, Prophet Muhammad, Guru Nanak -- the founders of all major religions -- were all known to spurn material comfort and stress compassion for the weak and safeguarding nature, but not many of their followers emulated them. One who did unreservedly was this Christian saint, venerated even beyond his own s...
At a time when the chessboard of Uttar Pradesh politics had just begun to witness moves and counter-moves in the run-up to the assembly elections, Thursday's surgical strikes by the Indian Army on terror launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) has the potential of altering the political narrative somewhat, if not altogether, in...
