Are the stakes higher for Cong than BJP in Karnataka election?

Last Sunday, I wrote about a celebrated editor, MJ Akbar's unwavering anti-Congress mindset and how it affected his ability to be a professional journalist. This Sunday, I am writing about another celebrated journalist Swapan Dasgupta whose known ...

Author: Swapan Dasgupta Those familiar with the political history of India since the decline of the Moghul Empire in the 18th Century will easily detect a common thread that runs through to the present: The weaker the regime, the greater the levels ...

Swapan Dasgupta Judged by the lax standards of India where human life tends to be woefully cheap, the twin blasts in Boston that led to four deaths and left many more injured, may have seemed relatively trivial. True, there was considerable admiration for the ...

Two main promoters of the group were arrested with one of them Shambhu Maukherjee committing suicide and Swapan Guha being declared insolvent by the court. Another accused Biharilal Morarka is still at large.As for investors and agents there are ...

ce a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. He becomes an echo of someone else's music. The aim of life is self-development; to realise one's nature perfectly. People are ...

India's Congress party is heading for a win in the polls to elect a new assembly in the state of Karnataka. The Congress has won 85 and is leading in 37 of the 224 seats. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won 26 and is leading in 13 seats.

— The night before Beijing released its biennial defense white paper in mid-April, avowing that it would not "engage in military expansion," roughly 30 Chinese troops marched 12 miles into Indian-controlled territory. For at least the last five ...

As he writes I convinced some officials at the Israeli Ministry of Education of the need for a curriculum to teach judgement and decision making in school. The team that I assembled to design the curriculum and write a textbook for it included ...

The traditional hang-out beverage is passe, new-age energy drinks have taken over for a generation constantly on the go. Move over tea and coffee, Red Bull and Tzinga are here, says one camp. Give us our good ol? cuppa says the other. Which side of ...