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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 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 Thomas Isaac |
We may soon be the third largest economy in the world. But budgets like the one for 2023-24, presented last week in…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The budget speech of Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman was the shortest by her own standards but it was not short…
A landmark piece of legislation that promises to make healthcare a fundamental right has run into unseemly opposition…
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…