By Nishant Arora New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) If you are a frequent business traveller and spend most of your time away from the safe internet boundaries of your office or home, be warned. Public…
By Vikas Datta Title: Fifty Great War Films; Author: Tim Newark; Publisher: Osprey Publishing/Bloomsbury; Pages: 208; Price: Rs 599 Do you know which war film earned the ire of Winston Churchill, who felt it cariacatured…
By Max Martin The monsoon has currently dissipated intense heat across IndiaÂ’s growing cities, but temperatures are rising and will continue to climb because of the way urban areas are expanding. With trees, lakes and…
By Amit Kapoor Social development and environmental concerns are often not accorded the attention they deserve in public policy discourse. The reason for this is that they are often seen in direct conflict with economic…
By Prachi Salve “The reason I am pushing so hard on stunting is because we have spent a lot of time looking at possible paths of economic development in developing countries. It is my suggestion…
By Vikas Datta Title: Jihadi Jane; Author: Tabish Khair; Publisher: Penguin Random House India; Pages: 248; Price: Rs 299 We need someone to update American thinker William James’s “The Varieties of Religious Experience” to explain…
By Hardeep S. Puri There are many deeply worrisome aspects of the Brexit, one particularly so. There are fault-lines in the functioning of democracies not only in the United Kingdom but elsewhere as well. Democracies…
By Amit Dasgupta The platform for a transformational change in bilateral relations was laid when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Australia in November 2014. Deviating from script, he spoke of India-Australia relations as “a natural…
By Vikas Datta Mid-July marks the 22nd anniversary of the belated end of the Rwandan genocide – one of the worst mass slaughters in modern times with at least 800,000 people brutally killed in 100…
By Amulya Ganguli A day before Ram Shankar Katheria was sacked the Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD), he had said that there was nothing wrong with the saffronization of education. He was…
By Devanik Saha Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar are the worst states for women, an IndiaSpend analysis of social indicators and demographic data of Indian states reveals. Women in these states are among those who…
By Devanik Saha Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar are the worst states for women, an IndiaSpend analysis of social indicators and demographic data of Indian states reveals. Women in these states are among those who…
By Saeed Naqvi Before we dwell on BangladeshÂ’s current travails, the good news. It is the only double distilled entity to emerge from Partition. Armed with Bengali nationalism, it shuffled itself out of the Islamic…
By Sukanya Bhattacharyya Pushed by the rising use of oil as a medium for cooking in rural areas and the falling production of oilseeds, IndiaÂ’s edible oil imports more than doubled in the decade to…
By Vikas Datta Title: On Nationalism; Author: Romila Thapar, A.G. Noorani, Sadanand Menon; Publisher: Aleph Book Company; Pages: 176; Price: Rs 399 It inspired the Indian subcontinent’s people to deem themselves one political entity, fight…
By Admiral Arun Prakash (retd) If the recent induction of the indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) has received a muted welcome from the IAF, there are very good reasons for it. While the nation…
By Sanjeev Srivastava I can’t even remember when a Prime Minister sent a message so loud and clear through an exercise that is his sole prerogative: Cabinet reshuffle. Of course, Manmohan Singh never had the…
By Lawrence Haddad It may seem like a no-brainer to say that we need data to guide efforts to end malnutrition. Would you run an economy without a regular stream of credible data? You’d be…
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, July 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit two birds with one stone in Tuesday’s ministry expansion, as far as Uttar Pradesh is concerned. On the one hand by dropping Minister…
By Abhishek Waghmare For 10 years, Degal Srimangar Sao, 26, has been sleeping in the corridor of a central Mumbai commercial complex, where he delivers tea every two hours to busy corporate employees. Vijay, as…