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By Lekha Rattanani |
The horror video from Manipur showing two women being paraded naked has shocked the national conscience. Suddenly,…
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China has been watching Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States this week. There are many stakes for…
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 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 |
Last week we celebrated the birth anniversary of Dr. Ambedkar, an occasion to dis-cover and rediscover a giant of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The swift disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha following a “bizarre” (to quote the lawyer Kapil Sibal)…
By Nachiket Mor |
It is true that we cannot ignore the more commen ailments which, too, cause death and devastation in families, but…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Christopher Wray has now come out to say that…
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For the politicians of this world who keep fighting over territories, who try to differentiate between us or draw…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The Chief Justice of India, Dr. Justice D Y Chandrachud, has made some very timely and significant comments on the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It has happened before. A business grows, builds connections, grabs political patronage and thinks it can get away with…
By Ajit Ranade |
The sudden and steep crash in Adani group stocks took away some of the glow of the Union Budget news headlines. The…
By Ajit Ranade |
The founding principles of our Constitution lay stress on justice, liberty, fraternity and equality. We must rededicate…