The debate over the June 9 raids by the Indian Army’s Special Forces unit against the Northeastern insurgent groups on Burmese territory has produced...

Meet Rahul, a journalist with long experience of working for the Indian and foreign media. The journalist now runs Medianet, a small-time...

Barely two weeks after a major earthquake which killed more than 8,000 people, Nepal suffered a powerful aftershock, adding to its misery and killing...

It is impossible not to be deeply moved by the magnitude of the humanitarian disaster that has visited Nepal and the adjoining regions of India and...

The election of Sitaram Yechury as the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is noteworthy not least because the CPM, with one...

When it comes to sheer hypocrisy and double standards, it’s hard to beat the Sangh Parivar. It strenuously claimed the legacy of Dr Bhimrao Ramji...

After 18 months of gruelling negotiations and several missed deadlines, Iran and the P-5+1 (the United States, France, Britain, China, Russia and...

Has India’s mainstream media decided to pay mere lip service to the Constitution’s fundamental values of secularism and liberalism, while ignoring...

If the Indian government wanted to become the laughing stock of the world, it couldn’t have done a better job than by banning the BBC documentary...

It may appear to be an unfortunate coincidence to many that serious dissension should break out in India’s political wunderkind, the Aam Aadmi Party,...

The Sangh Parivar has made a habit of raking up divisive issues which most people thought were settled at the time of India’s Independence or shortly...

It is fashionable in some circles to claim that discrimination based on caste has steadily decreased in India, as it is bound to, thanks to...