Opinion

That India’s healthcare system is failing its citizens during the current Covid-19 crisis is evident. Interestingly, what the raging pandemic has exposed is the expansion of the ‘biopower&...

Sir — Russia might ban an ice cream with rainbow colours under its anti-gay propaganda laws because it may “make... children accustomed to that flag”. This step would be hilarious if...

Gullibility is not one of the seven deadly sins, or the Indian people might have been condemned for it. For it is not just Vikas Dubey, responsible for the murders of eight policemen, who was killed i...

At a time when India and the world are battling both a pandemic and an economic slowdown, there is a thirst for news that uplifts the spirit. What could be better timed than the results of the latest ...

The Supreme Court has been criticized for its failure to act as the guardian of the Constitution. Issues ranging from demonetization to Kashmir and the indiscriminate arrest and detention of intellect...

The obstacles on the path towards equality in India are many. The patience of people and institutions working towards achieving it is thus bound to run thin. The Supreme Court had to remind the Centre...

Although Jolly Mohan Kaul wrote that “the ugly face of fascism had horrified almost all shades of political opinion in India,” I can’t imagine a conversation here such as I overheard...

The United States of America is hurtling from one crisis to another even as the presidential polls come closer. For a nation that has prided itself on being a beacon of freedom and democracy for the w...

There is hardly any expectation — at least within India — that the reported ‘de-escalation’ of military tensions along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh’s Galwan Valle...

The deep pleasure in watching the West Indies square off against England at Southampton was strange because international cricket hadn’t been gone that long. It was less than four months ago tha...