‘New battlefield’: Pinarayi Vijayan hits out at Amit Shah over Hindi tweet

Coming two months before the 550th anniversary of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev and opening of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor to Pakistan, it is a goodwill gesture with immediate resonance and long-term repercussions....read more

Trinamool Congress is in a precarious position. The forces of anti-incumbency that it has generated mainly by corruption and high-handedness of its leaders and denial of democratic rights of a large section of the electorate in the 2018 panchayat elections have cost it dear in the general elections....read more

A widow’s burden is heavier not only because she is alone in her troubles but also because she is invisible to the state, the society and to even her own family. ...read more

When certain well-known Hollywood stars were outed as abusers of young men, there was an initial hue and cry but unlike the #MeToo movement led by women in the same industry, the alleged abusers seem to have got away with it at least until now. Even in the West, where there is very little tolerance......read more

if we’re going to recall what’s happened to Pandits in 1990, then it’s wrong not to remember what happened to Muslims in Jammu in 1947. Hundreds of thousands were killed or expelled ...read more

Slowdown in growth has increased gap between North and South: The slowdown in growth in the non-OECD world has adversely affected their ability to catch up with the developed world in terms of per capita incomes. ...read more

It can be poetry when opposites attract....read more