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By Jagdish Rattanani |
The overriding of legitimate claims and demands in the name of a great nation waiting to happen signals not progress…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Pandora Papers raise a lot of issues that need serious introspection. However, one hopes that like the Panama and…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Punjab has been a fiasco for the Congress. But it comes alongside one of the better things that has happened in recent…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
To an angry questioner on social media, who asked why has this celebrated Hindi film star endorsed as undesirable a…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
After a firestorm over the article in the RSS-aligned Panchjanya magazine that called Infosys anti-national, the RSS…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The developments in Afghanistan send out many complex messages but the one that is not in doubt is that an endless…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s 74 years of existence as a sovereign independent nation is a minor miracle. At its birth, not many outside…
By Sudarshan Iyengar, Jagdish Rattanani |
The growing influence of large and powerful business conglomerates continue to raise concerns, not only in India but…
By Tushar Gandhi |
To convert a shrine of our independence movement and the life of the couple who lived there into a tourist plaza, an…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The argument that the data from this act of illegal snooping was available not to the Israeli company/group that sold…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The official death count due to Covid-19 in India stood at over 400,000 around mid-July. It is widely understood and…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The draft bill by the Uttar Pradesh government to enforce what is commonly referred to as the two-child norm has caused…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Father Stan Swamy has died. He has found peace and eternal rest and has at last been freed of the tyranny unleashed on…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
India’s Non-Performing Assets, or NPAs, the official term for loans that have gone bad, are of the order of nine lakh…
By Arup Kumar Dutta |
The “Look East” policy, targeted towards the economic development of North-East India in general and Assam in…