Renuka Chowdhury at the EXPRESS
•Coomi Kapoor: You seem to attract controversies. But as a politician, how do you define yourself?
Whatever the controversy, I believe one should have the courage to speak the truth as one grows older. As you gain experience you must learn to stand up and say what you believe in with conviction and that does not come without knowledge and understanding of the subject. It does not matter if you are wrong. I am a reluctant and accidental politician. I believe this is God’s revenge for my treati...
Saturday , 22 November '08
Sonia Gandhi will have grabbed a few more headlines than she would have liked with her speech at the Hindustan Times summit.
Saturday , 22 November '08
Given that global threats from non-state players are multiplying, New Delhi should give up its lone ranger attitude and tie up bilaterally or multilaterally with big naval powers to tackle piracy on the high seas
Saturday , 22 November '08
A creative medium that once united the country is now under attack, being rendered less effective as glue
Saturday , 22 November '08
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s decision to call the Leader of the Opposition, LK Advani, and discuss the case against Pragya Thakur, followed up with a briefing from the national
security adviser and other intelligence officials, is a welcome attempt to introduce a measure of fact-based rationality into what’s turning out to be a reckless and self-serving smear campaign.
Saturday , 22 November '08
Genius attracts us ad infinitum, ad absurdum. Notwithstanding the Malcolm Gladwells who would almost have us strike the word out of the lexicon.
Saturday , 22 November '08
Seldom has corporate strategy been turned on its head so quickly. Barely a year ago, cash was a dangerous thing to accumulate: activist investors stalked companies, urging boards to return it to investors, to pay special dividends or to buy back shares.
Friday , 21 November '08
It is the sport of the season, to look westwards to the United States and make a wish-list of all the pieces of its electoral process that India could gainfully import. The underlying yearning in this is to somehow have our elections be more inclusive.
Friday , 21 November '08
Thirty-year-old Claudia Castillo was hospitalised in March, after a bout of tuberculosis caused her airways to collapse, causing acute shortness of breath that left her unable to care for her two children, or live a normal life.
