Bollywood has given us very few films on women freedom fighters, and hardly any on Rani Laxmibai. Before Kangana Ranaut’s Manikarnika The Queen of Jhansi hits the screens tomorrow, we take a look at why in 21st century India, a film on Laxmibai was long due. Even television serials raced […]
Railways escapes glare of slippages in interim Budget 2019
Only two of 98 paragraphs of Finance Minister Piyush Goyal’s Budget speech were devoted to the Railways—and they were (naturally) feel-good ones. This has proved the fear of observers that doing away with the practice of separate Budget presentation (beginning 2017) to put an end to railway ministers using the […]
