Ranbir's pictures as Dutt shouldn't have come out: Hirani

'Even in this age of strong, self-willed and authoritarian leaders, spontaneous gestures and off-the-cuff remarks, a script is still written in the foreign ministries and offices of PMs and presidents,' notes Ambassador B S Prakash, imagining the 'talking points' for the India-US summit on June 26.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com To each his habit. Ask a top Air India executive as to what springs to his mind about the forthcoming trip by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the United States ...

Pat Moynihan, the great politician-intellectual, warned about the dangers of “defining deviancy down,” in which worse and worse behavior comes to be accepted as the norm. The late New York senator’s essay, almost a quarter century ago, was about crime ...

A Senate committee investigating Moscow's interference in last year's election has asked several of President Donald Trump associates to turn over information about possible contacts with Russian officials or businessmen. Former Trump foreign policy adviser ...