Kiran D. Tare

Vishal Chaturvedi has turned a deeply personal spiritual story into one of 2026’s biggest box-office surprises. In an industry where films routinely arrive with star salaries running into crores, lavish sets and multi-crore marketing campaigns, Hanuman Ansh is a striking anomaly. Made on a shoestring budget reportedly in the region of Rs. 2 crore, the ‘spiritual’ film opened last month to a modest box-office collection. Within weeks, however, audiences began taking a shine to the film with...

Air Marshal (retd.) Jeetendra Mishra brings discipline, integrity and command experience to the Ram Mandir Trust as it seeks to rebuild faith shaken by the donation scandal. The biggest challenge facing Air Marshal (retd.) Jeetendra Mishra, who was recently appointed first chief executive officer of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra in Ayodhya, can be articulated in a single word. It is not security or the vast machinery that keeps the Ram Mandir functioning. It is trust. Mishra takes...

Washington’s envoy to New Delhi is bringing an unusually blunt style to a relationship that prefers results over diplomatic choreography. Diplomacy usually rewards the careful sentence. But Sergio Gor, unbridled by diplomatic posturing, appears to prefer the ‘useful’ one. As his recent visit to India showed, Gor, ever since taking charge as the United States ambassador to India, has made a habit of saying plainly what previous American diplomats had only implied or altogether avoided speaking...