Category: Commentary

To curb India’s population growth, more babies should live

By Prachi Salve From 1.2 billion people in 2011, India is on course to become the world's most populous country…

8 years ago

Emerging from Mumbai slums, here’s the new voice of hip hop

By Ankit Sinha Time was when some popular music channels on TV would regularly blare hip-hop, thus exposing the millennial…

8 years ago

Namaste, Salaam and Jambo: The Indian experience in Africa

By Vikas Datta Makindu town, on Kenya's Nairobi-Mombassa Highway, is most known for its grand and immaculately-maintained gurdwara, which is…

8 years ago

Only 6% compensation to repair destroyed forests used

By Himadri Ghosh Bengaluru: No more than six per cent of a government fund - collected over six years from…

8 years ago

Have they traded sanctity of Test cricket season for IPL money?

By Saeed Naqvi West Indies cricket commentator Tony Cozier's death last month brings to an end the phase in cricket…

8 years ago

Will Modi bow to RSS on Raghuram Rajan?

By Amulya Ganguli In addition to the NGOs, including the one run by Teesta Setalvad, the saffron brotherhood's new target…

8 years ago

23,716 industrial projects replace forests over 30 years

By Himadri Ghosh Over the last 30 years, forests nearly two-thirds the size of Haryana have been lost to encroachments…

8 years ago

As net use spreads, cyber crimes up 19 times over 10 years

By Chaitanya Mallapur Cyber crimes reported in India rose 19 times over the last 10 years (2005 to 2014), from…

8 years ago

Modi government has ensured long-term growth for realty industry

By Vinod Behl The thinking in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government that the realty industry should grow on the…

8 years ago

The mystique of Marilyn Monroe – and the reality

By Vikas Datta She still is among the world's most celebrated actresses, sex and beauty symbol, and popular culture icon,…

8 years ago

84% Of 12 mn married children under 10 are Hindus

Devanik Saha Nearly 12 million Indian children were married before the age of 10 years - 84 per cent of…

8 years ago

How water inequality governs drought-hit Maharashtra

By Abhishek Waghmare A resident of Pune, Maharashtra’s second-most developed city, uses five times as much water as her counterpart…

8 years ago

$1 tn extra GDP by 2020 – If all Indians get online

By Tanay Sukumar Four of five Indians could afford the internet if data costs fell by 66 percent, according to…

8 years ago

‘Monsoon Journey’: A unique homage to India’s rainy season

By Vikas Datta It is the time of the year when people across the sub-continent start to look beseechingly at…

8 years ago

Trump an outcome of the Bush world disorder

By Saeed Naqvi It would be almost spiteful to walk upto the US ambassador and say: “Congratulations, you have Donald…

8 years ago

Obama in Hiroshima: More symbolism than substance

By C Uday Bhaskar US President Barack Obama’s Hiroshima speech (May 27) is a very carefully crafted document and merits…

8 years ago

Don’t let acts by a few hoodlums sour India-Africa ties

By Amulya Ganguli Racist attacks against blacks - in Bengaluru and New Delhi in February last year, in a Delhi…

8 years ago

Manual scavenging is illegal but still persists

By Chaitanya Mallapur & Video Volunteers It is a criminal, non-bailable act, but manual scavenging continues unhindered. “We do not…

8 years ago

Half of promises made by ministries to parliament not kept

By Akshay Agarwal & Prateek Sibal Two-thirds of central government ministries have not implemented more than 50 percent of “assurances”…

8 years ago

Alcohol kills an Indian every 96 minutes

By Devanik Saha As the debate over an alcohol bans grows across India, 15 people die every day - or…

8 years ago



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