Opinion - Page 683

It was way back in 1986 that Rajiv Gandhi had launched the Ganga Action Plan. But years later, after much water (sewage) and money has flowed down the...

Yes, khaps should be banned, if you ask me. But don’t ask me, for I will say religion, too, should be banned – and for more or less the same reasons...

Fifteen years ago, Rajani Maharjan’s father had installed a pipeline in their house. It was supposed to end their water woes, just like the rest of...

The media department head of the Congress party doesn’t have an envious job at hand. Former union minister, and one of the more articulate members of...

In a keynote speech to the Jaipur literary festival, Amartya Sen said something which he might not have said some years ago. ‘I want to see a party...

The AAP government in Delhi refuses to ban khap panchayats. It condones search and assault of African women in Khirki extension in south Delhi. The...

It was a cold, misty January morning as I drove through Moradabad district in Uttar Pradesh. The villages I crossed abutted lush green sugarcane...

In run up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, political parties have started offering sops, announcing new populist schemes and deviating from their hard...

The breathtaking region of Ladakh, situated at an altitude of 11,500 feet above sea level, offers unique geographical profile that is not found...

The only entrance to Jia Sarai – a tiny suburban sprawl in south Delhi, surrounded by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus from three sides...

Rarely has an interview drawn so much attention, both for right and wrong reasons, as that of Rahul Gandhi’s to Times Now. Almost the entire media –...

If the opinion polls are to be believed Narendra Modi’s man-Friday has delivered what many thought an impossible task, that of putting back BJP to its...