Kunal

One of the hardest parts about raising children is when they go through their teenage years. One of the hardest parts of being a child is going through the teenage years. It is a strange time of life – an age when puberty, a growing sense of self and expanding knowledge come up against the limitations of physical youth and...

If you have been tracking the stock markets for a while, you will be aware that we are in a slump. While volatility has pushed the index back and forth, the sluggish Index of industrial production, anaemic exports and agricultural stagnation make it likely that India could be in for a longish period of slow growth. Moreover, with interest...

Movies are traditionally viewed, at least in India, as escapist fantasy. In a country where being shallow is the norm and millions of fans celebrate a miscarriage of justice because it means their favorite actor stays out of jail, perhaps it is futile to expect anything better. Attempts at film-making with a social focus have tended to be laughable...

A ‘sycophant’ is defined by the dictionary as someone who ‘acts obsequiously towards someone in power in order to gain an advantage’. As dictionary-definitions go, this is one of the instances where the meaning is absolutely perfect. And for examples of sycophancy, we do not have to look much further than our own political and bureaucratic class. Image source The conclusion...

It is easy to call India a ‘young’ nation. 65% of our population is under the age of 35, a greater proportion than any other major country in the world. That’s more than China or the USA and much more than Japan or Germany. In fact, our youth population is more than the entire population of all these countries,...