Portrait of a community Gujaratis around the world carry a checkered reputation for their sharp entrepreneurial instinct and unique cultural richness. The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community, by Salil Tripathi, Aleph Book Company, 744 pages, ₹1,499 A military memoir Lt Gen YK Joshi, decorated with the Vir Chakra, is one of the most respected strategists in the Indian Army. …
Mumbai: Although the Congress fielded actor Urmila Matondkar from the Mumbai North constituency in the 2019 general elections, she was defeated by the incumbent BJP MP Gopal Shetty. This time, Congress has fielded local boy Bhushan Patil from the seat, opposite union minister and BJP leader Piyush Goyal. Patil, vice president of the Congress’ Mumbai unit, had contested the 2009 …
On the evening of June 21st, when the news came out that Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and JP Nadda went to meet Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, a couple of Telugu media channels started speculating that he will be made the next President. The map flashed on the screen during the debate Two of the panellists were severely upset that “South …
Scholar Pratap Bhanu Mehta has warned us of the “Kashmirification” of India. The peak of violence in Kashmir came in 2021 when there was no mobile telephony in the state let alone mobile Internet but the Government of India does not operate in Kashmir on the basis of logic. Just like the Indian State’s internal checks and balances, like the …