ICAI elects new torchbearers for the year 2021-2022
The Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) elected its new President & Vice-President for the term 2021-2022. CA. Nihar N Jambusaria has been elected as the President and...
View ArticleLiving with end stage renal disease
Our kidneys play a vital role in the day to day functioning of the human body and are essential for our survival. The Kidneys are essential for removal of toxins and waste products from our body. They...
View ArticleAnil Dharker (1947-2021): Excerpts from Mumbai Notebook
IN THIS SPACE, every other week, for the last four years, Anil Dharker wrote, in words of affection and anxiety, about the city that defined his mind— a city that was enriched by his engagement with it...
View ArticleOpen Minds 2022: Editor’s Note
The Noise of the Nation is what we commonly mistake for a people’s political as well as cultural expression. It is what we, so eager to index identities, depend on to get to the truth of a country’s...
View ArticleOpen Minds 2022: Public Square
Now that the virus has tempered down and the idea of lockdowns dwindles farther and farther away into the horizon, human beings, in the absence of that common foe who unites them, can return to the...
View ArticleOpen Minds 2022: Soft Power
Vivek Agnihotri | Nita Ambani | Kamal Haasan | Deepika Padukone | Kiran Nadar | Smriti Irani | Pankaj Mishra | Rohit Sharma | Jeet Thayil | Pullela Gopichand | Alia Bhatt | Allu Arjun | Anirudh...
View ArticleBig changes in BJP top panel, Gadkari, Shivraj make way for Sonowal, BSY
Three former chief ministers—B S Yeddyurappa (Karnataka) and Sarbananda Sonowal (Assam) have been included in the BJP parliamentary board while road and transport minister Nitin Gadkari and Madhya...
View ArticleGovt ignores seniority, Delhi-centric choices for new AIIMS, ICMR heads
The Narendra Modi government has chosen to ignore seniority claims of well known figures in the Delhi AIIMS faculty to appoint a younger candidate, Dr M Srinivas, dean of Employees’ state insurance...
View ArticleOpposition Meet Postponed
A week before Opposition parties were to meet in Patna on June 12, the anti-BJP conclave was rescheduled. The meeting is now likely to be held on June 23. The proposal to postpone the meeting came...
View Article“The day you say Modi is ‘satisfied’, you can say you are paying homage to him”
Outlining what keeps him going and how he wards off complacency, Prime Ministrer Narendra Modi said that he does not allow himself to feel “satisfied” and keeps engaged with tasks that require...
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