Agnipath, a road to disaster
The educated youth in the country have perceived the scheme as an extension of the contract labour system...
Use of bulldozers: Height of barbarism
Popularly elected governments using bulldozers in the name of efficient governance is the height of...
Towards a surveillance state
The new bill does not merely replace the 102-year-old Act; it has been made more stringent in violation...
Lessons learned from the Sri Lankan economic crisis
Sri Lanka used to earn revenues to the tune of $455 million a month during the healthy pre-pandemic days,...
Republic Day ban on Sree Narayana Guru
“I have never come across one who is spiritually greater than Swami Narayana Guru or a person who is on...
Brutal killing with impunity, UP style
On October 3 this year, four farmers, returning home from a protest meeting in Lakhimpur Kheri in...
Beware of holy men in robes
MATHEW JOHN Out of a total Christian population in India of 27 million plus, over 20 million are...
NEET: The Medical Nemesis
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) introduced with great fanfare has adversely affected...
State autonomy still a distant dream
With the massive majority of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in Parliament and the Union government’s...
Pegasus: Mamta to fight the Demon
Make no mistake. The Pegasus spyware, contrary to claims made by its Israeli manufacturer, is a lethal...
Deep Dive Dubai is world’s deepest swimming pool for diving
Dubai is now home to the deepest swimming pool for diving in the world, Deep Dive Dubai. H.H. Sheikh...
We killed Father Stan Swamy!
Months before he was killed in custody 84-year-old Jesuit priest Stan Swamy, who fought for the rights...
Delhi High Court order on UAPA: Warning against wanton use of penal provisions
First, the Karnataka High Court and then the Delhi High Court through their path breaking bail orders...
Modi Government’s image building exercise goes terribly wrong
A massive exercise undertaken by an Index Monitoring Cell (IMC) created by the Modi Government to devise...
Linking of Ken-Betwa rivers, a road to disaster
The memorandum of understanding for the Ken Betwa Link Project (KBLP) signed in March 2021 among the...
City of Djinns
BIMAL SHIVAJI Delhi is well-known for its various memorials, mausoleums and the final resting places of...
Delhi NCT Bill 2021: Murder of democracy and negation of peoples’ will
The Government of the National Capital Territory ( NCT) of Delhi (Amendment ) Bill 2021 passed by the Lok...
Act of God or Himalayan Blunder?
The southern state of Kerala and the northern state of Uttarkand have been experiencing large scale...
Is the Chief Justice of India worthy of the post?
As a modern nation, we are far behind when the credibility of the judiciary and the common sense of those...
Difference between Modi and Indira
Some confessions have a historically significant place in politics. Decades later, when a movement or...
A period when struggles and propaganda are called treason
The bail of environmental activist Disha Ravi comes as a relief to those who support the farmers’...
The old becomes history
When a person is 90 or above, an early part of life becomes history. I was born in 1929. World War II...
India will survive COVID setbacks
With just over a month and a half to go before the end of the COVID-19 fiscal year, the situation is...
If fuel prices are not controlled, the economy will suffer
When fuel prices rise sharply, the balance between the income and expenditure of the common man goes for...
Will Modi reject an activist Gandhiji too?
In recent days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been calling those who support the peasant agitation...
Farmers protest 1988 and 2020
“This is a drama of madmen, only those should join it who will fight to the finish,” farmer leader...
Treason in the name of journalism
Arnab Goswami, a journalist, is the epitome of the devastation that has befallen the visual media in...
Rational ways to find a woman’s worth
In spite of the enormous amount of unpaid work women do, the concept that homemakers do not ‘work’...
Winged visitors from the North
The seagulls are back again at the Khalid Lagoon and the Al Qasba canal in Sharjah, albeit in lesser...
The reign of Trumpism
Right-wing extremism in the US, known as Trumpism, is seen culminating in the US Congress yesterday. In...
UAPA, NIA oppression the new normal
Following his resignation from the Atal Beehari Vajpayee Ministry on August 1, 1998, Ram Jethmalani in...