Editorial
Nambi Narayanan’s Calvary
Accountability and its absence in India is the primary reason why the country is still close to the bottom of...
Kindness at what price?
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister is a kind lady. There is no reason to doubt her expression of sorrow at...
After China, now focus on U.S.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi would have known that a powerful lobby in India would look with disfavour on his journey...
Compulsion is not consent
One of the dirtiest secrets of India’s film industry is the casting couch phenomenon. It is well known that many...
RBI must stop starving the economy
While Bill Gates may have complimented Government of India for the unprecedented step of withdrawing 86% of the country’s currency...
Book Kuldip Sengar for murder too
The reluctance of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to ensure that BJP MLA Kuldip Singh Sengar be placed in...
Mayhem in Bengal
There was a time when states such as Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were considered India’s “badlands”—the Wild North and East—where...
PM must act on CBSE mess
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is no better or no worse than other wings of government in a...
Parliament bedlam must stop
It is a sad day for democracy when it’s daily bedlam in Parliament, with shouting members disrupting business, sometimes by...
Press Freedom part of Basic Structure
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India is wholly accurate when he speaks of the way in which...
Statue vandalism must stop
It says a lot about India’s divided polity and civil society that in 2018, historical figures from the early and...
Indo-Pacific Pacifism
The past few days have been witness to Japan accusing a Maldivian-registered ship of having transferred to a North Korean...
India-Canada relations must go beyond domestic politics
In the end, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received the trademark Narendra Modi greeting—the bear-hug that has come to define...
Talking to Pak futile
During the years when Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were Presidents of the United States, the military in Pakistan efficiently...
Mahatma Gandhi chose Nehru as PM
India has for long witnessed a troubling blurring of the boundaries of fact from that of fiction. While the Mughals...
