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By Rashmi Sawhney |
Artists, writers and intellectuals have historically been the vanguard for mobilising social change and bringing down…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The Manipur crisis, complex as it is, has a cause, a trigger, and a history. In theory, it can be explained in the…
By Ajit Ranade |
June marks the three hundredth birth anniversary of Adam Smith, the Scottish phi-losopher considered to be the father…
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 Jagdish Rattanani |
Well planned and thought through policy that does not get into the trap of event creation or headline grabbing also…
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 Jagdish Rattanani |
Without delving into what the Karnataka elections hold and which way the wind will blow, it can be safely said that…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Last month a film released in theatres here recounting an immigrant Indian mother’s struggle to win back the custody of…
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 Vappala Balachandran |
On March 18, 2023 The New York Times published a story “A Four Decade Secret: One man’s story of Carter’s re-election…
By GN Bajpai |
The nation is going through a tough debate on the merits of a new pension scheme versus the old scheme that offered…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Christopher Wray has now come out to say that…