Nitish Kumar
The Election Commission of India has announced the schedule and the dates for the Bihar…
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is “willing” to recommend a CBI probe into the death…
“We are coming together to defend secularism by defeating Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and the…
No political journalist’s education is complete without understanding Bihar. If Mumbai’s business is business, then…
It was a picture that perhaps best captured the angularities of Indian secularism: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien in a topi even as Delhi lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung and vice-president Hamid Ansari preferred to be bare-headed. The occasion was an iftaar party organised by the Delhi chief minister. Perhaps Kejriwal and O’Brien (an Anglo-Indian from Kolkata) had taken their cue from Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, who once said, “To run the country, you have to take everyone along … at times, you will have to wear a topi, at times a tilak.”
I have met Deepika Padukone just once: it was the CNN IBN Indian of the year awards last year when she won the special achievement prize for having acted in a series of hit films. She cried on that occasion on receiving the award from her father, the legendary badminton player Prakash Padukone.
