Clearly, the word of the Day is Escape Velocity, just in case it escaped your attention through a busy day. Have you heard of Jupiter's escape velocity.....no no aeronauts didn't discover it today. It's just that it escaped Rahul Gandhi's lips today. And suddenly all of us Indians in the Twitterverse, woke up to Jupiter's
Dr Manmohan Singh is only the illusion of a prime minister. The illusionary PM with the real control center From Jammu last week, and most horribly, came yet another example of what happens when policies and institutions are reduced to an illusion. It is in matters of national security and foreign policy that
Think about this: The United States has shut down, European Markets fell for a second straight day on Thursday, Greece has been the epicentre of the Eurozone Debt crisis and is in its 6th year of recession. In Spain, 1.5% of the country's population have left the country for good, millions of Syrian people have
Lets face the true fact today. If your enemy slaps you on one cheek and you offer him another, he will be more than happy to give the same treatment to your other cheek! Why do we accept both terror and talks? We do not need the soft nation tag anymore. Yes,
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
Recently, a humorous photo is doing the rounds on Facebook which says, "I went to a fish market and shouted, 'What is this? A classroom?', thereby maintaining the balance of the Universe. " Hilarious, but also something to learn from. Doing the rounds on facebook Everything in the world needs to be balanced.
World's largest democracy? Yes, surely. But the World's largest successful democracy? Maybe not.In a country where the approval rating of the incumbent Prime Minister is below 10% (Ouch), at the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country. We opted for democracy as our political system. But I have been wondering for quite
The Supreme Court in a landmark order ruled that a lawmaker convicted by any court will lose his membership of the Parliament, State Legislature or any other body from the time he is convicted and will not be eligible to contest elections later. So wait wait wait.. this means we will have to run a
This week had it all. Finally after a long wait of 9 days... Arnab returned to Times Now. Lets Have a look at the weeks events: The nation was shocked and there was no one to ask the questions and get the direct answers. Rajdeep Sardesai finally found good days and was happy to see people finally
