Opinion - Page 774

About six years ago, an enthusiastic green activist from Ghaziabad, Vikrant Sharma had taken me to the banks of Hindon river near Mohun Nagar. He...

In 2013, a multi-day cloudburst in Uttarakhand caused devastating floods, killing more than 5,000 people. A year later, Kashmir suffered disastrous...

On the 25th anniversary of India’s economic reforms, a general consensus seems to have emerged within the country and without that the next phase...

After spending nearly 16 long years to construct and pass a Constitution amendment bill facilitating goods and services tax (GST), state governments...

Maybe, at last, Prime Minister Modi himself and his senior colleagues realise that neither growth nor jobs could materialise, as was hoped to be...

Even as Sonia Gandhi prepares to pass the baton to her children in the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh elections, it is obvious that she is not only...

Rahul Gandhi’s interaction with party workers in Lucknow on Friday has made it clear that the Congress is not going to be a lazy and sleepy entity in...

The blurring of sex is one of the enduring dogmas of modern medicine. And this reduction is biased in favour of men, the default sex—what is medically...

It was around the summer of 1990 that I had my first encounter with Mahasweta Debi. I was working for a national women’s magazine and we were doing a...

“I do not care about sentence of death, it means nothing at allI do not care about dying or anythingWe are suffering from the British EmpireI am not...

Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver, most commonly caused by a viral infection. There are five main viruses that cause the disease: Hepatitis A,...

Balloons in blazing colours billow down the ceiling of the Democratic Convention arena in Philadelphia. Then the cameras pull back, enveloping the...