Money is on the minds of most of us, most of the time, as we think about how to get it and what to do with it.But our relationship with money is far...

In an era when populist rhetoric and rituals trump achievements and genuine belief, democracy exists, but with its key principles of dissent and...

Too young to be among its founding fathers, Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, who died on September 28 did have a key role in the newly-born country's...

Known to many generations of Indians as a diminutive but determined woman in a blue-bordered white sari who cared for the poor and destitute, Mother...

A Quetta hospital on August 8, a Lahore park in March, a Karachi bus in May 2015, a school in Peshawar in December 2014, the Wagah border crossing in...

A bid to steal the British Crown jewels (in their pre-Kohinoor era) was made in 1671 but the thieves were caught even before they escaped the...

Providing one such account of a childhood in the Raj’s waning years is journalist and author Brigid Keenan.Known for her witty and colourful accounts...

 It is also beyond dispute that India has not been well served in this regard since the heyday of Sir Jadunath Sarkar, even though it faced four major...

But would time sweep on in the same way we anticipated or would it, be with some other mechanism that runs the universe, foil our efforts to make the...

Or the dying speech of Romeo’s noble friend Mercutio: “No, ‘tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but ‘tis enough, ‘twill serve:...

A country may be democratic or authoritarian, but the regime will always maintain influence, covert at least, on police, especially when...

No other political or social belief has ever been so proudly owned to or so savagely disparaged by both conservatives and radicals, aspired to or...