Category: Commentary

Open public Wi-Fi networks boon for hackers to steal sensitive data

By Nishant Arora New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) If you are a frequent business traveller and spend most of your…

8 years ago

Enduring memorials and sharp critiques: A century of war films

By Vikas Datta Title: Fifty Great War Films; Author: Tim Newark; Publisher: Osprey Publishing/Bloomsbury; Pages: 208; Price: Rs 599 Do…

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How India’s concretising cities are becoming heat islands

By Max Martin The monsoon has currently dissipated intense heat across India’s growing cities, but temperatures are rising and will…

8 years ago

India needs to up its social development indices

By Amit Kapoor Social development and environmental concerns are often not accorded the attention they deserve in public policy discourse.…

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WB warning on stunted children should worry India

By Prachi Salve “The reason I am pushing so hard on stunting is because we have spent a lot of…

8 years ago

A radical religiosity’s results – learning the hard way

By Vikas Datta Title: Jihadi Jane; Author: Tabish Khair; Publisher: Penguin Random House India; Pages: 248; Price: Rs 299 We…

8 years ago

Brexit: Britons deserve better political leadership

By Hardeep S. Puri There are many deeply worrisome aspects of the Brexit, one particularly so. There are fault-lines in…

8 years ago

Education could be game changer for India-Australia ties

By Amit Dasgupta The platform for a transformational change in bilateral relations was laid when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited…

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Powerless against genocide: Frustration of a UN peackeeper

By Vikas Datta Mid-July marks the 22nd anniversary of the belated end of the Rwandan genocide - one of the…

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For Modi, its ‘Focus Uttar Pradesh’

By Amulya Ganguli A day before Ram Shankar Katheria was sacked the Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD),…

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UP, Bihar, Rajasthan: Worst states for women, J&K catching up

By Devanik Saha Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar are the worst states for women, an IndiaSpend analysis of social indicators…

8 years ago

UP, Bihar, Rajasthan: Worst states for women, J&K catching up

By Devanik Saha Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar are the worst states for women, an IndiaSpend analysis of social indicators…

8 years ago

Individual hackings and terror attacks in Bangladesh: A Whodunnit

By Saeed Naqvi Before we dwell on Bangladesh’s current travails, the good news. It is the only double distilled entity…

8 years ago

Indian kitchens demand oil; production declines, imports soar

By Sukanya Bhattacharyya Pushed by the rising use of oil as a medium for cooking in rural areas and the…

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New Nationalism in India: A boon or a bane?

By Vikas Datta Title: On Nationalism; Author: Romila Thapar, A.G. Noorani, Sadanand Menon; Publisher: Aleph Book Company; Pages: 176; Price:…

8 years ago

HAL must be modernised, if Tejas are to be saved

By Admiral Arun Prakash (retd) If the recent induction of the indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) has received a…

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Modi’s message: Don’t take me for granted or mess with me

By Sanjeev Srivastava I can't even remember when a Prime Minister sent a message so loud and clear through an…

8 years ago

Data: What India needs to end malnutrition by 2030

By Lawrence Haddad It may seem like a no-brainer to say that we need data to guide efforts to end…

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In ministry expansion, Modi hits two UP birds with one stone

By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, July 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit two birds with one stone in Tuesday's ministry…

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900 mn Indians live in 2 rooms or less

By Abhishek Waghmare For 10 years, Degal Srimangar Sao, 26, has been sleeping in the corridor of a central Mumbai…

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