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By Vappala Balachandran |
As a writer on intelligence for the last 27 years, my objective has been to demystify and deglamourise the subject for…
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 |
Nearly four years ago, in January 2019 the Parliament passed the 103 rd constitu-tional amendment carving out a new…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Horrific stories are emerging from the factories complex in Zhengzhou in central China owned and operated by Foxconn,…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Iran is on a boil. Women are up in arms and the uprising is being crushed by the Iranian government, making world…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Well, the world has moved, and so has India. But we may be creating a new “us” and “them” problem right within our…
By Pavitra Mohan |
September 23 in many senses is a landmark day in the context of India’s long and winding road to treating healthcare as…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
If the ‘Bharat-jodo’ yatra continues to earn the goodwill it has thus far, that leader down the line and over the years…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is true that Gandhi emphasised duties over rights but he also showed us how it was a duty to stand up when rights…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is not a secret that the pharmaceutical sector, for all that it has achieved in India, has created rather than…
By Vappala Balachandran |
The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8 in Nara City reminds me of my first lessons in…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Uddhav Thackeray will have to take his case to the people very fast, and take on the role of Maharashtra’s wounded…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Maharashtra has irked the BJP over the last few years and the Shiv Sena under Uddhav Thackeray as the Chief Minister…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In the story of the blind men and the elephant, each touching a different part of the animal and quarrelling over what…