India Diary
Dynastic politics in India
India, the world’s largest democracy, has at least 150 MPs who have inherited their seats from their parents.
Bollywood scores big in 2012
THE year 2012 was good for Bollywood, which raked in fistfuls of moolah as a number of films hit pay dirt at the box office. Of the three reigning Khans, Salman again proved his pulling power at the turnstiles, though both Aamir and Shah Rukh also featured in moderately successful films.
A rape that shook India
SPONTANEOUS protests following the barbaric deed underlined the growing influence of civil society.
Will he or will he not switch to Centre?
It isn’t always that a provincial poll attracts such huge interest. But the recent poll in the western state of Gujarat for constituting a new Assembly was entirely different. This was because of Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Outrage and shock over rape in capital
City shamed: Girl gang-raped in bus in South Delhi. Woman battles for life in hospital. Twenty-three-year-old gang-raped inside bus, thrown out.
Between a rock and a hard place
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh, an economist by training and a politician by sheer chance, is discovering how difficult it is to run the United Progress Alliance Government.
A tight lid over an explosive issue
YOUNG Indians today tend to be more interested in economic rather than emotional issues.
Crazy, and tragic, twists and turns
A rags-to-riches tale ends in tragedy for Uttar Pradesh’s liquor baron.
Another stormy session?
GIVEN the turbulence in the polity and the record of parliamentarians, there can be no telling how the current session, which opened this week, would turn out to be.
Rise of civil society activists
A GROUP of public-spirited individuals has come forth in exposing scandals in the government, a role traditionally expected of the Opposition.
Bollywood going legit
The Competition Commission of India has received its first complaint from the Indian film industry.
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