Keeping tabs on the political grapevine.
Sanjay Dutt’s case underlines the need for prisons to become centres for reform and not just incarceration.
The Li Keqiang visit is marked by honesty and pragmatism, a good sign for Sino-Indian ties.
Eat, drink and be merry because the next day’s research may prescribe a more austere way of life.
The BJP’s politics is turning out to be neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring. The BJP must come up with a poll plank that is far more inclusive than Hindutva.
Indian sport might just get a chance to make a comeback on the international field. Positive signals from the IOC will bring no cheer if India’s sports administration is not cleansed.
Jolie’s ‘medical choice’ is brave but the luxury of being forewarned and forearmed is not available to everyone.
The arrest of Sreesanth and two others indicates that fixing continues to sully the T20 league.
The United States immigration reform bill pleases no one, but may displease too few to perish before it remakes the American dream, writes
Rashmee Roshan Lall.
We hear the phrase ‘sensitisation of the police’ in connection with the safety and rights of women often but time and again we have seen that it is almost meaningless in this regard.
Social schemes, customised to the needs of the people in a region, help empower the weaker sections. Sreeram Chaulia writes.
Two custodial deaths in India and Pakistan prove that we react more than respond. Uddalok Bhattacharya writes.
Public protests are part of our rights but they can’t involve collateral damage like destruction of public property.
The Supreme Court was recently compelled to take recourse to the imagery of a parrot to lament the degradation of the CBI into abject slavery. Manoje Nath writes.
Delhi University's four-year undergraduate programme is being portrayed as moving in the direction that the UPA government, in tandem with India Inc, wants to push the nation’s higher education.