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Obama trapped by his own words

Mr Obama now faces ‘rhetorical entrapment’, which refers to how a leader may become boxed into pursuing a particular course of action owing to the expectations generated as a consequence of a particular public statement

Comedy? Jaane bhi do yaaron...

Of late, it’s difficult to find a multiplex showing a comedy, but for the pyromaniacal Golmaals, Kool trouser-droppers and execrable Mastis. Consequently, what can we say about comedy, as it was meant to be? RIP?

What’s in a surname?

In immature democracies, names matter. Nobody in England would vote for someone simply because they were called Churchill. This dynastic force in Indian democracy remains a puzzle.

America in retreat

China’s stakes in securing Pakistan and Iran as part of its ‘Silk Road’ strategy is obvious, Putin’s Russia stepping into the vacuum left by the US, as it seeks to reclaim its role, is the new reality

The election impact

Had New Delhi granted refuge or asylum to Mohamed Nasheed when he sought shelter in the Indian high commission in Male, his chances of staging a return to power would have diminished

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.