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By Jagdish Rattanani |
As India emerges from the shock and horror of the triple train crash at Balasore in Orissa on June 02, and as…
By Martin Macwan |
Manipur has been in a state of conflict for quite some time. It is not surprising that the situation often escalates…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Congress Party’s victory in the elections to the State Assembly of Karnataka is the highest it has been in the past…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Without delving into what the Karnataka elections hold and which way the wind will blow, it can be safely said that…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
A lot has been written on the normalisation of what have come to be called “encounter killings”, the extrajudicial…
By Ajit Ranade |
Last week we celebrated the birth anniversary of Dr. Ambedkar, an occasion to dis-cover and rediscover a giant of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It was not very long ago that spam messages and forwards used to be not about the veracity of Prime Minister Narendra…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The swift disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha following a “bizarre” (to quote the lawyer Kapil Sibal)…
By Indira Hirway |
The BJP has won for a record seventh term in the Gujarat Assembly elections held earlier this month. The win is no…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan, two of Hindi filmdom’s biggest stars, have come out to make statements of the kind…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The stinging remarks by Justice Sandeep Kumar of the Patna High Court in a case of the bulldozing of the house of a…
By Ajit Ranade |
The founding principles of our Constitution lay stress on justice, liberty, fraternity and equality. We must rededicate…
By Ajit Ranade |
Nearly four years ago, in January 2019 the Parliament passed the 103 rd constitu-tional amendment carving out a new…
By Martin Macwan |
The successful agitation of Gujarat, the ‘Patidar Andolan’, demanding reservation brought us to the 103rd amendment to…