Even in its best phase,India ends up often shooting itself in the foot and letting a 'golden' opportunity slip by.

How has Bihar performed in the last four years,say from 2006 to 2010?

But when you have the babe-watch babe of TV on a show,you expect more than a bedsheet. We've been shortchanged,for sure.

Broad SSA goals are universal enrollment,bridging of gender and social gaps,retention in elementary education and quality.

Like many of you,I’m still waiting for that elusive Facebook Messages invite.

You’ve got to feel for the ladies. Being a Bollywood heroine is a tough job.

The air in Manhattan is clean. I am travelling through and decide to take a break in the Big Apple.

A friend of mine recently commented that China should be moved out of Asia in terms of sporting events.

Imraan Khan and Ranbir Kapoor are caught kissing on the air. Not once,but twice.

I still remember the “foreign smell”,from my aunt's huge red suitcases.

The mobile revolution has hit rural India,but with a new set of rules.

BCCI considers Asian Games useless and doesn’t seem too keen in promoting the sport beyond a dozen.

The 2007-08 unemployment rate that floats around is courtesy NSSO and has an unemployment rate of 2.8%. Labour Bureau’s definition is different,and shows an unemployment rate (2009-10) of 9.4%.

In the Eighties,around two thirds of Indian industry was freed from output and price controls. But the trade and cooperation potential of this was ignored abroad.

When newlyweds Vivek Oberoi and Priyanka Alva were posing with guests at their reception,ex flame Aishwarya Rai was ringing in her birthday with the entire Bachchan clan.

Does anyone remember the Twenty Point Programme (TPP)?

China has been the target of serious developmental projects from the International and the Asian Cricket Councils.

The joke a few years back was that all actors in Bollywood have a PhD for running around trees.

At the G-20 meeting,a decision has been taken to increase quotas of developing countries by 2012.

There was a proposal (within the Finance Ministry) to unify Railway Budget with General Budget.

Governments decision last month on the CSAT makes me go down memory lane.

A couple of days ago,the world media woke up to the news that the ‘Slum Lord’ actor has been signed on for the Tom....

Entry 40 on the Union List is clear,it mentions lotteries organized by the government of India or the government of any state.

Before Commonwealth Games,most people had not heard of Norfolk Islands.

Every Rajinikanth release is an event. The 60 year old actor who gets top billing in all his films as ‘Superstar Rajini’ has a mad fan following.