Ideas News - Page 12
Didi's coronation: Where's the girl power?
A look at Mamata's cabinet shows she is just the latest politician to make history as a woman and then leave her sisters behind.
Will the world end today? A California cuckoo thinks so
Doomsday prophets have been horribly wrong before. So why is this one getting so much attention?
Murder most foul! How ‘Kanimozhi’ is being mangled
Her name means 'Sweet Language' but the many ways in which it's phonetically tortured is anything but sweet.
Thumbelina on speed: The story of Aditi
An exclusive excerpt from Palash Krishna Mehrotra's highly anticipated new book, "The Butterfly Generation:A Personal Journey into the Passions and Follies of India's Technicolour Youth.
How 'golden' is your varsity Gold Medal?
Mumbai University has a perplexing discriminatory policy for awarding 'gold' medals to toppers in various disciplines. It all unravelled at this year’s convocation.
Respected Shobha Rani: A love letter from Kashmir
What happens when a group of Kashmiri stone-pelters falls madly in love with a young and beautiful police officer? Here is a tale of the human heart caught between love and war.
The anatomy of a political lie: Rahul vs. Bhardwaj
The Congress scion's flip-flop pales in comparison with the Karnataka governor's political somersault. So why does one political "adjustment" attract more flak than another?
Hindus in America: Rich, smart, and pious
Statistics show that American Hindus happen to excel at making money and earning degrees.
Minimum city blues: whither Kolkata?
Mamata Banerjee has inherited a decaying brand that lost its cosmopolitanism years ago. But Kolkata wants to play catch-up with New Delhi and Hyderabad. With Didi in the Writers' Building, the question everyone's asking is: Can Kolkata get its groove back?
The sordid sexual history of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
The IMF chief is not a 'great seducer' but a serial sex offender whose misdeeds have been veiled by a conspiracy of silence.
Trending now: Yam Ah Mee, Osama or Obama?
We love funny viral videos. From a remixed Yam Ah Mee speech with a legal clause repeated 26 times, to GotchaMedia's compilation of the Osama/Obama media goof-ups, these are our picks for the day.
#Verdict11 - Your reactions
As #verdict11 became clearer across the five states that went to polls, you watched, listened, tweeted and commented.
Is Mamata the moment of truth for Bengal's Maoists?
Mamata Banerjee has been called the Maoists' friend by the Left Front. But as chief minister does she need the Maoists any longer or do they need her?
Your comments that we "like"
'I think this is brill no one writes about sex in India" and more. Our daily round-up of Firstpost favourites.
The Kanimozhi drama: A Bollywood dream come true
Kanimozhi has a touch of a tainted Cinderella with her brothers playing the structural equivalent of the ugly sisters.
Big Mac Mamata: Didi's All-American politics
Sandip Roy, Culture Editor Firstpost, spoke to National Public Radio about Mamta and the ongoing Bengal elections. You can listen to his interview here.
The unconscionable hotness of Niira Radia
The new book on Radia paints her as a ruthless sexy siren who seduced hapless politicians and businessmen to line her foreign bank accounts. So why aren't we outraged?
The face of Bhopal that still haunts
The Supreme Court decision is just the latest twist in the Bhopal gas leak case. But the reason the case still haunts the public imagination might be because of one iconic photograph.
Five myths about Pakistan
An influential book puts forward five controversial reasons why the debate around Pakistan needs a new perspective. Reasons that have critical implications for India and the US.
West Bengal elections epochal change for under-30
One of the key offenses of the Left Front, it seems, is the fact that it has been around for too long and like its most recognizable faces, has aged, not very gracefully at that. We realize that Bengal needs a facelift.
Too young for Facebook! 7.5 million users not even teens
The social networking site, which does not charge any fee for membership, has users even below the age of 10
How the Ayodhya dispute can be solved. Permanently.
Forget mandir-masjid politics. What Ayodhya needs, and can profit from, is an IPL franchise.
You said it - We read it
Comments, tweets and the conversation on the site is key to everything we do. Here is a compilation of some tweets and comments that caught our eye.
Pakistan media grades Gilani speech a flop
Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani might just have the world's most thankless job. His much awaited speech to the Pakistani parliament about the Abbottabad debacle was a perfect example of that. It pleased no one.