By Vikas Datta A small band of prominent people, including women and children, refusing allegiance to the ruler, were forcibly confined on a dusty plain for over a week, refused access to water, and eventually…
By Saeed Naqvi Kash Hindustan mein hota janam Abbas ka Barh ke hum Hindu utha lete alam Abbas ka (If only Abbas were born in Hindustan, We Hindus would have held aloft his emblem) –…
By Charu Bahri The dry reservoirs — despite an average monsoon — of south Karnatakas Cauvery basin illustrate Indias rainfall trends over 65 years: A drop in moderate monsoon rainfall and an increase in extreme…
By Amulya Ganguli There is an element of desperation skirting the edge of rationality in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s frenetic attempts to ban liquor consumption in Bihar. Within a day of the Patna High Court…
By Arun Kumar Washington, Oct 8 (IANS) Football or Town Hall? Tube addicts are torn over watching America’s most popular sport or another bout between “Crooked Hillary” and “Dodgy Donald,” the two most unpopular presidential…
By Swagata Yadavar An ambitious $23-million (Rs 153.5 crore), award-winning five-year-old programme funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to arrest childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia in Bihar — a state with Indias sixth highest…
By Ruwa Shah Dear Madam Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, you recently touted Kashmir as a safe place because women don’t get raped in a moving car. Are you sure it is indeed safer for women…
By Rajat Arora The “surgical strike” on the terror launch pads across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir has been considered a mature and unrivalled move by the Indian Army. For a country…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy The BJP has done enormous disservice to both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian Army with its vitriolic attacks on Congress and AAP leaders over the surgical strikes on terrorist…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) If you are running an enterprise or planning a start-up in India, accepting the fact that cyber security threats are real and dangerous is the first step…
By Amit Kapoor The Fraser Institute’s annual Economic Freedom of the World Report raises some important points for Indian policymakers. The Fraser Institute is a Canadian think tank that initially held conferences on devising methodologies…
By Prachi Salve The five states with the largest proportion of literate women — Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra — account for 53 per cent (4.3 million) of all business establishments…
By Vikas Datta In an era when populist rhetoric and rituals trump achievements and genuine belief, democracy exists, but with its key principles of dissent and non-conformity not only ignored but threatened, and totalitarianism no…
By Alison Saldanha Delhis air is the worst among world megacities, the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed recently, even as IndiaSpend’s #breathe network of air-quality sensors reported fine-particulate-matter (PM2.5) levels were almost four times above…
By Saeed Naqvi Shaila died in a Karachi hospital on the day when the army camp in Uri was attacked. Threatening war drums kept her brother, Nazim, a dear cousin of mine, from travelling for…
By Rajendra Shende A brilliant and amusing mathematician of our times, Joseph Keller, was known for his playful indulgence in mathematical explanations of everyday puzzling facts. For example, he mathematically enlightened why the ponytail of…
By Vikas Datta The venerable sages of India, the Buddha, Jesus, Prophet Muhammad, Guru Nanak — the founders of all major religions — were all known to spurn material comfort and stress compassion for the…
By Amulya Ganguli During the Kargil conflict in 1999, India did not cross the Line of Control (LoC). If it has behaved differently this time, the reason is that Pakistan’s reputation has nosedived in the…
By Charlie Moloney As India prepares to ratify the terms of the Paris Agreement on climate change on October 2, Gandhi Jayanti, it must prepare to fulfil a global commitment by ensuring 40 per cent…
By Anil K. Rajvanshi A whole book can be written on how Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas are relevant today. He was a visionary and possessed a very powerful mind and hence thought deeply and wrote on…