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For the longest time, Argentina has been famous for its beautiful football, shambolic economy, and populist politics. More recently, it has...
Indian elections are like an unfair football match. One team is forced to play barefoot.
China views control over the Dalai Lama as critical to cementing its authority over Tibet. While he has long advocated a ‘middle way’ seeking...
Political authority and economic power are now concentrated in the hands of ministers and bureaucracy. Democracy is bound to degenerate into...
During my multiple conversations with Guru Dutt’s sister, Lalita Lajmi, for my 2021 biography of him, there were many moments when she was moved by...
There’s a whole set of rituals to realign you with your feminine essence. Sit and silently stare at yourself in front of the mirror. Learn to...
Child rights initiatives are concentrated in metropolitan areas while children in rural areas are left with makeshift courts such as village...
With 26% of India’s 0–6 age population in urban areas, projected to reach 50% by 2047, redesigning ICDS to focus on and expand in urban areas is a...
Aadhaar, ration card, voter ID, and MGNREGA job card—the IDs poor voters actually hold are excluded from ECI's list of documents to prove identity...
India must now seriously reconsider its involvement in SCO, where China’s writ runs large, Pakistan’s terror networks are never condemned, and...
There is a tendency, especially in diplomatic and at times academic circles, to treat dialogue itself as progress. But the India-China dynamic...
The Constitution is not just meant to protetct religious autonomy and the collective religious right of a community; it is also supposed to protect...
There is only one way for Indian Muslims to be respected in the Muslim world: be Indian above all, and situate your Muslimness within Indianness.
The Karnataka government’s concerns about regulating misleading speech may be genuine, but the heavy-handed approach adopted in the fake news bill...
Shefali Jariwala’s sudden death has been attributed to heart failure. No mischief is suspected. But her dying and the cause(s) of her death have...
The opportunity for India is historic, as the country moves from 'build and export' to 'innovate and lead' on the global stage.
The crash report due next week may not be conclusive, but the spate of diversions, emergency landings, and narrow escapes over the past month has...
PSUs were generally considered a drain on government resources. However, things have changed dramatically under the Modi Government. This is...
The Republic of India’s understanding of religious policy should not be based only on this or that North Indian Sultan, but on a sober...
In 1983, the Left Front government in West Bengal under Jyoti Basu banned the teaching of English till Class 6, and justified it by citing a...
If the aim was to secure balance, then it feels like a rookie move to pick Washington Sundar over Sai Sudharsan. And Kuldeep Yadav's exclusion...
All political parties used the 'Constitutional' mandate of secularism and Article 29 to provide facilities and privileges exclusively to non-Hindus.
The city once prided itself on civic order. But under the DMK, it has been made to believe that dysfunction is normal, accountability is too much...
A Chinese commentator noted that the J-20’s recent public appearance marked the maturation of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force’s stealth...
The Kasba rape case has brought back memories of the horror of the RG Kar rape and murder case and forced people back on streets in West Bengal.
Neither Telangana’s textbooks nor the Razakar movie address the feudal system that enabled bonded labour under the Nizam’s Jagirdars.
Erdoğan’s beliefs are increasingly evident beyond Turkey’s borders, too. The new regime in Syria has embraced Sharia as the basis of its laws,...
The IAF is often blamed for ignoring homegrown defence equipment. But it’s the government that makes the call.