It’s the most natural thing in the world. Everybody’s done it. Breastfeeding, that is. The majority of 7.5 billion homo sapiens have been...Read More

It’s that time of the election cycle again, when farmers become the focus of government solicitude. After years of acute distress and far...Read More

The spike-studded Emergency boot is now on the other foot, or so the Lutyen’s intelligentsia would have the Indian electorate believe. At...Read More

Spiritual leaders are a repository of pain and angst. Devotees lay all their troubles, heartaches, guilt, anger and jealousies at the gur...Read More

Pranab Mukherjee (may his tribe increase) was an old-school politician. Sagicious, gracious and on occasion, loquacious, the former Presi...Read More

Bollywood choreographer Saroj Khan may not have heard of British sociologist Catherine Hakim, but the two appear to agree on one thing: u...Read More

A vote in the great state of Uttar Pradesh carries less weight in a general election than a vote in Tamil Nadu. It’s simple arithmetic: U...Read More

One of the first lessons in Civics at school is the doctrine of separation of powers, which assigns separate spheres to the three organs ...Read More

In the wake of the plenary, some have offered their resignations from party posts so that “youth and talent from across the country” can ...Read More

DNA as a criteria for getting a party ticket is offensive to party workers, particularly those who joined the RSS parivar for ideological...Read More

The entire burden of the 2017 assembly elections has been placed on the PM’s Atlas-like shoulders. Is that fair? Should he be expected to...Read More

IF only Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi could rein in his alchemical urge to turn political capital into dross and advantage into af...Read More

Union minister Giriraj Singh’s proposed surgical strike against overpopulation, intended to snip and clip the very roots of social dishar...Read More