Opinion - Page 621

A master of witty anecdotes, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar once liberally used a popular bikini adage to make a point about governance and...

When was the last time you swiped your card to buy your favorite watch on an e-store?  Or when did you decide that going to the corner bookstore was...

The practice of foreign policy – that does not presuppose ‘war is merely a continuation of politics by other means – presumes an interlocution between...

Who is afraid of inflation? Not the country’s 350-million-strong urban middle class and upper income group. The fact that high prices are having...

The ISIS threat has been around for months. Why was it not nipped in the bud? Obama’s response in the course of a conversation with Thomas Friedman of...

Irom Sharmila is used to being called a strong woman. But one of the strongest statements she made yesterday (August 20) after breathing in the fresh...

For the last couple of days, my Facebook wall is getting filled with videos of people pouring bucketful of ice on themselves.The ‘Ice Bucket...

Health is wealth’, is no hollow slogan. Natural extension is a healthy nation also being wealthy, strong and a happy nation. But a lot would depend on...

The Shahabad malnutrition treatment centre, in Rajasthan’s southeastern district of Baran, may perhaps never have existed and little Satish Sahariya...

In the beginning of the last decade, the Left front government of West Bengal felt the urge to do ‘industrialisation’ with an additional fervour and...

Just a week before the Modi government competes its 100 days, the by-election results have come as a jolt to the BJP. The saffron party, which...

Descending slyly and softly at night, she spreads all her six long, filament-thin legs and stoops on uncovered flesh. She pierces the skin with the...