Fearing success more than failure
The best way to watch the Indian Test team lose is to put them in a winning situation overseas During the fourth innings of the first Test in Cape Town against South Africa earlier this year, India was set a modest target in challenging conditions. Part of the commentary team for...
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Education sans values is useless
23 September 2018 | Satish Kumar -
Default settings curb choices
23 September 2018 | Vandana Maurya/ Madhav Govind -
Astrology for healthy body and mind
23 September 2018 | Bharat Bhushan Padmadeo -
Life Lessons Learnt Standing on the Edge
23 September 2018 | Niharika Nigam -
God’s many responsibilities
23 September 2018 | Ajit Kumar Bishnoi -
Briefly Speaking
23 September 2018 | Pioneer -
Oddly Enough
23 September 2018 | Pioneer
Culture Lane
BBC plays down Zoe Ball rumours The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) insists it has still not chosen a new host for The Radio 2 Breakfast Show, despite press speculation that Zoe Ball is set to take over the biggest programme in UK radio. Chris Evans announced this month that he was leaving...
How India won against Polio
Thomas Abraham’s book discusses the history of how people across the world responded to the polio eradication campaign. It also shows in detail how India went from mistrusting the campaign to finally embracing it. An excerpt The polio eradication campaign’s most anguished and difficult years in India were from 2005 to...
Of romance and revenge
Seduction by Truth Author : Mukul Kumar Publisher : Bloomsbury, Rs 350 Mukul Kumar’s book takes a plunge into an analysis of all the complexities that plague marriage and tempt individuals to overstep its bounds. It talks about how the social institution often threatens individual identity Naturally given to offering his readers slice-of-life...
A chink in India’s armour
Shades of Truth: A Journey Derailed Author : Kapil Sibal Publisher : Rupa, Rs595 This book charts the history of India’s governance and shows how the current BJP Government, too, has failed to keep many of its promises, says AMIT GOEL You never know what the voter will do. Will have to wait...
A society gone awry
We are accustomed to writing angry posts about crime and tragedy in the country and blaming the Government for anything that goes wrong. It’s about time we took responsibility for building the nation we want to live in, writes PRAMOD PATHAK Why all these flies, why all these gliding ghosts, why...
Not just the boy next door
When we meet Shahid Kapoor, he undoubtedly has the laidback elegance of a star in comfortable casuals. But then he asks the photographers to spare him, switches off and settles in for a coffee conversation of sorts, recalling his years of jumping around Press Enclave. That child-like curiosity to explore...
Radicalisation: New manifestation of terror in US
In the age of lone-wolf attacks gaining prominence, the focus of counterterrorism has shifted to the phenomenon of radicalisation on the American soil. Now the challenge is not to locate terrorist hideouts in the rugged caves of Tora Bora, but to spot the potential ultras from among the millions of...
