Category: Opinion

In the jaundiced world-view of British fiction, Brexit was preordained

By Vikas Datta Britain on Friday voted to leave the European Union after a 43-year-long stint. But it had less…

8 years ago

Government building homes that poor don’t want

By Sukanya Bhattacharyya Over 10 years, the central government spent Rs 21,482 crore ($3.2 billion) building houses for the urban…

8 years ago

Swamy twists facts, gets it wrong on Arvind Subramanian

By Govindraj Ethiraj Nothing in India’s Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian’s statement made at US Congressional hearings in 2013 and…

8 years ago

Extra kilos among rural poor weighing India down

By Rajan Sankar & James Levinson Obesity and overweight recorded an 8.6-fold increase in India’s rural areas over 14 years,…

8 years ago

How online shopping is changing rural India

By Anil K. Rajvanshi I stay in rural Maharashtra. We have reached a stage in life where we hardly shop…

8 years ago

On average, 5 divorce cases adjudged every hour in Kerala

By Saumya Tewari Family courts in the prosperous, southern state of Kerala ruled on just over five divorces every hour…

8 years ago

Secured, hacking-free cloud service is what India needs: Experts

By Nishant Arora New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) While the world is witnessing cloud data breach incidents more often --…

8 years ago

Brexit may deliver fatal punch to Paris climate pact

By Rajendra Shende Even before the entry into force of the Paris climate agreement that saw global jubilation just six…

8 years ago

The great Indian water walkathon

By Saumya Tewari & Rohan Bapat More than half of Indian households did not have a source of drinking water…

8 years ago

New civil aviation policy: A positive step

By Amit Kapoor The union cabinet last week approved the much-awaited civil aviation policy. The policy, which has been instituted…

8 years ago

Patna’s air 5 times above safe levels, 2.5 times worse than Delhi’s

By Rohan Bapat In 2016, the air in Bihar’s capital, Patna, was classified the world’s sixth-most polluted in a World…

8 years ago

Assam elections: Polarisation over Bangla immigrants led to BJP victory

By Rekha Bhattacharjee With the dust settling on a raucous election campaign and with a new regime taking the reins…

8 years ago

Echoing the legacy of Kabir in the contemporary music space

By Ankit Sinha Few poets in the country have been as influential as the 15th-century mystic Kabir. His poetry, written…

8 years ago

The emperor among philosophers and why he still speaks to us

By Vikas Datta Author Samuel Butler once observed that "to die completely, a person must not only forget but be…

8 years ago

India needs to recaliberate NSG stance ahead of Seoul meeting

By C. Uday Bhaskar China has just tipped its hand in relation to India ahead of the Nuclear Suppliers Group…

8 years ago

The Dimitrov case: Using court to unmask Nazi power grab

By Vikas Datta History is full of incidents that have lessons for later times, provided they are not forgotten. One…

8 years ago

Punjab drug addiction: 16% or – as dy CM says – 0.06%?

By Charu Bahri “Out of the 2.77 crore population of the state, only 0.06 per cent was found abusing drugs,…

8 years ago

Time for Congress to do some out-of-the-box thinking

By Amulya Ganguli The rapid entry and exit of Kamal Nath as the Congress observer in Punjab has once again…

8 years ago

Benign origins of ISIS until it rose to catastrophic heights

By Saeed Naqvi Every Joint Secretary’s room in the Ministry of External affairs had a neatly folded copy of the…

8 years ago

On average, 98 deaths in police custody every year

By Jai Vipra A staggering 1,275 people died in police custody in India between 2001 and 2013 but less than…

8 years ago



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