So addicted has India’s power elite become to being treated as the proud representative of a rising great power embarked on an unstoppable march...

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has succeeded, as expected, in scuttling the odious ordinance, which would have negated a recent Supreme Court...

It’s an irony of history that an adversary can sometimes rescue you from trouble better than a friend. So when Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov...

The assassination of anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar in Pune is an ugly black mark on Indian society. The forces of fanatical...

The National Security Archive, a Washington-based NGO, has made the sensational disclosure that the United States launched secret spy missions against...

There cannot be a clearer example of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons than the decision of the United Progressive Alliance, in particular...

Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati, professor of economics at Columbia University in New York, isn’t known for modesty or patience towards his critics. In...

Communist China, which routinely represses popular protests, should be more intolerant of mobilisations against nuclear power than democratic India,...

The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a chargesheet after investigating the 2004 ‘encounter’ killing of teenager-student Ishrat Jahan and...

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...

The disconnect between the reality of nuclear power and the Indian establishment’s perception of it is complete. Nuclear power has been in worldwide...

So low has the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) fallen under the impact of numerous corruption scandals that the more it tries to cover them up, the...