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Kasab at Chatrapati Shivaji terminus The Supreme Court has spoken and they say Kasab must hang. This has reopened the debate about the...

The Earth is in a constant state of change, some of it natural and some through the machinations of humans. Whatever the origin of the...

13 January 2012 must go down as a golden date in modern Indian history. It marked one year since the last polio case in India. Once...

On 15th August of each year we commemorate an event that in beginning to have less and less meaning to the common man – our Independence...

An increasingly scary trend has emerged in our country – people being put into prison on charges of sedition for voicing their opinions...

The inevitable has finally happened. After a year of fasts and making noises the Anna-led civil activists have decided to enter the...

Google or Microsoft? Gmail or Live Mail? Google search or Bing? The Google users will tell you how insecure and intrusive Microsoft is...

It is a small metal box that we ride up and down buildings in, our very own Dr. Who machine. Call it an elevator or a lift, the fact is...

London 2012 is here and it was kicked off by a wonderfully colourful opening ceremony. It is ironic that the London edition of the games...

Another Olympics have come around. The extravaganza of the Olympics is set in London this year. Over the next few weeks we will see the...

Pranab Mukherjee is the thirteenth president of the Republic of India after a bitter election. There is a feeling among one section,...

Yet another politician has come out and said that women bring the rape on themselves by dressing provocatively. While crime against women...

“The worst regret we have in life is not for the wrong things we did, but the thousands of right things we did for the wrong people”, see...

The n-word is back in the public domain in India. The southern state of Tamil Nadu proposes to set up a nuclear power plant to address...

The senate in the state of Washington today passed a legislation that clears the way for gay marriages in the state. This makes WA the...

Over the last decade Shah Rukh Khan has done his best to be the next Big B in the honeycomb called Bollywood. He isn’t the first to try...

2500 km over 10 days – that was my year-end holiday road trip. The first leg of the journey was from Hyderabad to Goa. The trip was close...

Like many of the people in India, I was impressed and carried away by the Anna Hazare movement against corruption – for the first two...

I wrote this story as part of Book Wednesday on the Tehelka Facebook page. The topic was to write a story that began with the words “It...

This week saw London burn under rioting from her youth going on rampage. In a world connected by television, the images of young children...