Automobiles of all sorts, manufactured in India, swarm our streets. In neighbouring countries, the automobile industry is still in the screwdriver era

A couple of decades or so ago, just before the recent automobile revolution in India, the big argument was all about whether the Government of India should open the floodgates for free import of second-hand automobiles. Developed countries...

Sometimes, railways are a better alternative to air travel, says a newlyconverted rail traveller Veeresh Malik

Last week, I travelled from New Delhi to Lucknow and back on the Swarna Shatabdi Express, on one way, and the New Delhi-Lucknow Non-Stop Special, on the other. The trains left and arrived at both ends spot on time, city-centre to city-centre. The stations were reasonably clean as...