In Uttarakhand, there are signs of a hung assembly. Smaller parties and independents can play kingmaker and decide the fate of Congress and BJP
Akash Bisht Dehradun
FEBRUARY 2012
February 2012
Cover Story and Featured Stories
This moment must come in every star's life when they start appearing as caricatures of their own manufactured self-image. With Ra.One and Don 2 bombing, is the superstar losing it?
Aakshi Magazine Delhi
Drawing massive crowds and tipped to be the next big leader, Imran Khan is rocking Pakistan. In a free-wheeling interview he describes his political vision, radical transformation from below, end of the feudal and VIP culture, and his deep love for India. Exclusive interview with Imran Khan
Kiran Nazish Lahore
SP and Congress seem to be riding high, the BSP's base is in rapid decline, while a faction-ridden BJP lags behind. Indeed, the electoral game in UP is wide open
Anil Kumar Verma Kanpur
If Priyanka joins the campaign across UP, along with Rahul's consistent efforts, Congress might hope to push the electoral threshold beyond predictable limits
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
Akhilesh Yadav is flying on the anti-incumbency wave across UP, while the game seems to be over for Mayawati
Pradeep Kapoor Lucknow
Conversation with Akhilesh Yadav
Sadiq Naqvi Bijnor
With Congress literally absent on the ground, it's SP which might get the Muslim vote
Seema Mustafa Moradabad
Face to Face with Jorge Ayerse Roza De Oliveira, Portuguese Ambassador to India
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
'Narcopolis' has created a new benchmark in literary fiction. Kudos to Jeet Thayil for having made a neat transition from verse to prose
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose Delhi
The books tell important stories, based on actual events couched in fiction, and yet slide out of the crevices of one's head, leaving little trace of memories
Ratna Raman Delhi
Will UP's relatively high economic growth in recent years yield political dividends for BSP?
Ajit Kumar Singh Lucknow
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Nothing works better than a big smile and a tight hug when it comes to making friends. These are time-tested principles and I saw them work their magic once again on women and students from Pakistan who visited Mumbai recently.
Five Pakistani women were hosted by the sociology department of Mumbai University and the Austria-based NGO Women Without Borders to contemplate on the 26/11 terrorist act in Mumbai three years ago, and to together look for new ways forward to a more happy and healthy relationship between India and Pakistan.
Going by recent events, 2012 is going to be one heck of a crazy year. I have not consulted a Chinese astrological calendar, but I feel in my gut that for India, this is the Year of the Joker. The Election Commission (EC) kicked it off by arbitrarily deciding that if 2011 was the year of exposures, 2012 would be the year of modest cover-ups. They ordered that all statues of Chief Minister Mayawati and her party symbols (life-sized elephants) be concealed before the UP elections.
After returning from Syria’s capital Damascus, the Sudanese general heading the Arab Observer Mission to Syria told the media in Cairo that the situation was not “apocalyptic”.
The kind of public interest marketing, shady sponsorships, five star aesthetics and blabbermouth dysentery of the mouth being showcased with such pride and pomp
Amit Sengupta Delhi