It’s alarming that a country that was the cynosure of all eyes some two years ago is today languishing reputationally.
If you ‘like’ something, does that mean you care about it? It’s an important distinction in an age when you can accumulate social currency on Facebook or Twitter just by hitting the ‘like’ or ‘favourite’ button.
Instead of blackmailing the Centre over the hanging of Balwant Rajoana, the Punjab government must focus on law and order.
Rahul Singh writes.
The alliance will evolve into a cohesive unit that can pluralise the global order only if its members agree on a common action plan, writes Brahma Chellaney.
It is important to know what keeps and what really disturbs interpersonal relationships. The relationship gets disturbed when disagreement begins. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar writes.
Eight months on, we know a lot about the riots that swept parts of London and other cities across England. We know much about the social and economic background of the looters and arsonists. We know of family breakdown and disaffection. Dipankar De Sarkar writes.
In the din of the unseemly skirmish between the army chief and the defence minister, a little Bill that could have big implications on marriage slipped by relatively unnoticed and unsung.
If there's one person who should either be more clear about stating his facts or keep a respectful silence, it is the man in the thick of it all himself: Gen Singh.
Chanakya writes.
The government said records pertaining to the imposition of emergency in India in 1975 have gone missing from the Prime Minister's Office.
We will remain the largest buyer of foreign weapons until the defence sector is privatised, writes
Pramit Pal Chaudhuri.
India refuses to apply global standards of calculating poverty.
Formulate measures to safeguard the army from the designs of the corrupt
The shocking story of a 13-year-old domestic help from Dwarka, locked up in a flat for six days without food by a doctor couple who went on a holiday to Thailand, has shamed the capital. But abuse of domestic workers by "educated, upper-class" families is not uncommon. Only a few cases get reported. Shivani Singh writes.
Recent trends Data and developments in the English-speaking world reveal challenges to newspaper journalism. Sumana Ramanan writes.
Historian Peter Heehs is part of a long list of foreigners who've made a signal contribution to India. A favourable review of his visa extension will benefit the nation, Ramachandra Guha writes.