Albert Einstein famously said of Mahatma Gandhi that future generations would “scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh a...Read More

A government emerging from a second consecutive electoral win is in a position to take big and bold decisions. From that perspective, Bud...Read More

The mangoes we consume with such relish don’t carry a label, informing us how many times the tree from which it came has been “washed” wi...Read More

Nal se Jal or piped water for all by 2024 is the flagship programme of the current NDA government. The concept is deeply disturbing in a ...Read More

Narendra Modi, true to his penchant for setting new records and pulling rabbits out of his Rajasthani ‘safa’, became India’s first prime ...Read More

Environmental concerns are always someone else’s problem, as manifest in the great urban traditions of littering, leaving taps running an...Read More

The Priyanka enigma continues to confound. She has been panned for not fighting against Narendra Modi in Varanasi, most notably by ‘liber...Read More

With great power comes great responsibility. In popular culture, the of7th Lok Sabhat-cited quote from Spiderman refers to the exercise o...Read More

Another landmark in the life of democracy is celebrated today. Pre-poll freebies have fallen like gentle rain on vote-rich bastis, as if ...Read More

The Congress election manifesto for 2019, like all such promissory statements, is largely populist in nature. Having been drafted with th...Read More

More than 1.35 million women across the country enter public life through panchayats every year, but they are consistently under-represen...Read More

The post-Pulwama effect on the 2019 Lok Sabha is a major concern for all political parties in the fray, as is evident from the Opposition...Read More

The politicisation of Pulwama is as inevitable as it is regrettable. A day after the terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 40 CRPF j...Read More