As the midnight hour approached, N prepared himself for his country’s tryst with destiny by fixing a fresh rose on to the button hole of his cotton vest. In a few hours, the long and hard struggle to rid India of foreign rule would bear fruit. N had grand dreams for his beloved India, of
Products and brands have a life-cycle and a fixed life period. Commonly this cycle progresses as development, introduction, growth, maturity, decline and eventually death and disappearance. The pioneer of mosquito repellents in India, the Tortoise brand (popularly called ‘Kachchua Chaap’) is still famous but dead. The toothpaste ‘Promise’ is now mostly given in small bathroom packs in
The Nation: India is a developing country. In fact, it has been developing for so long that it is practically an overgrown baby. Unlike babies in general, however, this baby is not temperamental but full of equanimity. Practically nothing can provoke this baby called India. Border transgressions, terrorist attacks on our cities, parliament, external interference
Switch on an Indian news channel today and it will be flooded with just 1 news item - the sentencing and subsequent disqualification of Congress MP Rasheed Masood, who was till today afternoon a sitting Member of the Upper House of the Indian Parliament. Many news channels are hailing it as historic and calling it
