Opinion - Page 1299

The populist Food Security bill is all set to go through in Parliament despite the stalling tactics adopted by the BJP led opposition. The political...

If in the world one needs to locate a string of pearls and a ring of fire at the same point, it has to be, without any doubt, India. For almost the...

There was always a face behind the moderate-hardliner divide in the BJP. During the Ramjanmabhoomi movement, it was Atal Behari Vajpayee and L K...

The outrage over the suspension of an official, Durga Shakti Nagpal, for simply doing her job – check illegal sand mining in the rivers of Uttar...

This year the celebration of Independence Day doesn’t feel politically correct, literally and figuratively. Looking at the year that passed by and the...

The Durga Nagpal controversy has brought to the surface the issue of political interference impeding bureaucratic work. A few months ago, presumably...

There cannot be a clearer example of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons than the decision of the United Progressive Alliance, in particular...

In 2013, the statistics of the Pakistan army supporting terrorist attacks and ceasefire violations in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) has been recorded...

Someone asked me many years ago whether there is discrimination in India. While my first reaction was to say no, I realised that, in fact, I would not...

Amidst the ongoing tragic-comic political theatre of Delhi and the general air of despondency that pervades all over, the Indian Navy, in its unique...

The Independence Day special cover story of a prominent Indian news magazine does what it terms a ‘counter-factual’ exercise – going back in time and...

It is a tragedy in Indian democracy that politicians of the day are shying away from transparency and do not want a clean public life. They are rather...