Opinion - Page 1327

A premium has been put on the group rivalry bedeviling the Kerala unit of the Congress. That has been the unpleasant upshot of the talks between...

The euphoria of social activism has evaporated. That it lacked staying power was evident early enough when Anna Hazare’s decision to shift his venue...

The poster boy of Indian entrepreneurs of the 21st century, Narayana Murthy, is back in business at Infosys – the third biggest Indian tech firm –...

Perhaps no other country has as great and complex a maze of laws and rules that give arbitrary or unlimited powers to the state as India. And no other...

In my previous column I had said that I spent the best time of my life at my nani’s place (grandmother) in Begusarai as a child in the early 70s. The...

Following the unusual and disturbing kind of intrusion by Chinese border forces from 15 April 2013 in eastern Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K),...

Ten-year-old Bhavya Mehra wanted to become the next Katrina Kaif but her introverted nature deterred her from participating in extra-curricular...

Most people in India think that tuberculosis (TB) is an old disease with little or no relevance in 2013. But, in fact, India reports over two million...

The debate around Maoist insurgency in India is stuck within two fundamentally opposite views. One view is that this insurgency is simply a law and...

If you know that a sector has arrived when it makes for trade wars between countries, then solar energy clearly has. Last year, the US imposed...

SONIA TO LEAD FROM THE FRONTCongress President Sonia Gandhi will lead the election campaign of 2014. Putting at rest the speculation over who would be...

Scrawny and gaunt from illness, American artist Scott Morgan wants to ‘live life’s every moment’ to the full before succumbing to terminal intestinal...