In April this year, forest guards, on their daily beat, heard loud growls of a tiger in the buffer region of Tadoba Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra. Much to their horror they found not one, but two tigers trapped in iron
For once, the nation agrees with Justice Markandey Katju, who called Ramdev’s show at Ramlila “a circus”. In this circus, Ramdev was the clown who entertained his disciples for three days with his amusing claims. AIDS can be cured by
Like a swarm of locusts, they invade your town, your homes, destroying everything in their path. Creating chaos and panic, they fear no one. Travelling on bikes, jeeps, cars, trucks, they flaunt brute power. Putting on saffron shorts/vests and chanting
The Congress, the BJP, the media and the corporates went berserk after global rating agency, Standard and Poor’s, threatened to downgrade India’s sovereign credit rating to speculative and put India at the risk of losing its investment grade rating. The
Is Aamir Khan India’s answer to Oprah Winfrey? Is Satyamev Jayate the Indian incarnation of the Oprah show? Ever since the show was first broadcast, people seemed convinced of the striking similarities with the highest rated US talk show’s early
While Vidya Balan’s Dirty Picture oo-la-laed through the box office, Irfan Khan’s Paan Singh Tomar is still running packed houses. Stories of a south Indian actress and an athlete turned dacoit; these two plots created history by compelling filmmakers to
While every tiger killed in the wild generates massive furore, no one sheds a tear for the hundreds of leopards that are brutally being eliminated from their habitat. Wildlife activist and big cat lover, Belinda Wright once told me that