Opinion

Lost meaning Sir — For those of us who are used to waking up at the crack of dawn on Mahalaya to listen to Birendra Krishna Bhadra’s Mahishasuramardini, it is disconcerting to hear the ch...

The logic of wise men is often inaccessible. When the Association of Indian Universities, chock-full no doubt of the wisest folk chosen by the Narendra Modi government, decided to grant two education ...

Is there a Cheshire Cat in the Narendra Modi government and has its grin widened after the draft Indian telecommunication bill 2022 was tossed into the public domain last week? The draft bill has trig...

“The overthrow of mother-right was the world historical defeat of the female sex,” says Friedrich Engels in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. When men, in the proce...

Kerala has seen many bitter altercations between state governments and governors. This is not unusual in states where the party in power is opposed to the ruling dispensation at the Centre. Yet, the o...

Murky vision Sir — Marvel Studios, known for churning out films and characters that preach the supremacy of the United States of America, has finally expanded its vision. But its gaze continues...

Quiet sting Many Congress insiders in Karnataka are scratching their heads over who conceived the Grand Old Party’s ‘PayCM’ campaign, which called out the rampant corruption plaguin...

In the spring of 1822, an employee in one of the world’s earliest offices — that of the East India Company in London — wrote in a letter to a friend, “You don’t know how ...

The symmetry of the responses of the Pakistani and Indian high commissions to the recent communal violence in Leicester neatly illustrates the evolution of the Indian State under the Bharatiya Janata ...

We shall arrive and we shall countenance a rapturous welcome. We shall announce all shall now be well. We shall pronounce those dins that will never come. We shall leave room to say they were jumla...