It’s a dish that has been on the boil since the 1950s and is still on the burner. It is time to turn off the gas and close the argument over palm oil...

When we talk telecom, we hem and haw about rising zeros in debt figures and liabilities. We all forget the investors, hapless casualties of this...

A peculiar contagion has afflicted the next generation of India’s rural workers. Despite living a hand-to-mouth existence, many just don’t seem to...

I am not plagiarizing Shakespeare with the header. Much as his title above had little to do with the actual play, our economic policies seem steeped...

It is sad that I am writing this column. But I simply have to. We earlier spoke of crores of jobless Indians. We now speak of even IIT graduates...

Don’t rush to give me a condescending call; I am not geographically challenged. My question is: “When will we accept J&K as part of India, not a...

Gasping for breath or clutching at straws, he will do anything to survive. Similar to him are India’s billion-plus souls, stretching their rupee to...

A year after the slaughter, ruckus rules the hillsides again, as if man has taken a vow to decimate all that is beauteous. It may be apt to call it...

We might and perhaps should forget the Paris Olympics from the standpoint of Indian medal wins, but it will reverberate for long for the guts and...

When octogenarians weep in Parliament, when mothers in our villages cry and fathers break down, you know things are bad. Deep inside, you know you are...

It is distressing that 7.3 per cent of Indians in the 13-17 years age bracket have mental disorders. It’s even more startling that this malaise is...

The Gonda train mishap is but the tip of an iceberg, taking a toll on commuters’ patience and trust. How often will we go off-track before finding...