Opinion

Nearly three decades ago, amid the ruins of a collapsed Soviet Union, the American political scientist, Francis Fukuyama, famously declared that Western-style liberal democracy had triumphed for etern...

Ghastly result Sir — Truth is stranger than fiction in a democracy. We have all heard of ghost voters — fake voters or dead persons in whose names votes are still cast — and politic...

India’s burgeoning population has, for long, been a thorn in the side of its progress. The recent findings of the National Family Health Survey-5, therefore, come as a breath of fresh air: it ha...

Closing the CoP26 summit, Alok Sharma, the British president of the conference, said “we’ve kept 1.5 within reach, but its pulse is weak...” Sharma was upset because a last-minute as...

The success of CoP26 in Glasgow is difficult to ascertain. There were some positive moments: pledges of net-zero targets by countries, including India, the US-China agreement on emission cuts, and the...

Aiden is the name Anupama Chandran gave her son when she received him after an excruciating struggle. It means “the little fiery one” with its etymological roots in Irish mythology. C...

Footnote Just when he may have expected applause for his handling of Covid-19, the Karnataka health minister, K Sudhakar, was criticized at a cabinet meeting for usurping major projects, including a ...

Contrariorum eadem est scientia — so goes a Latin proverb that means that people never really know what a thing is unless they are able to give a sufficient account of its opposite. This perhaps...

Right-wing majoritarian politicians  are defined by two imperatives. Politically, their job is to sell the subordination of minorities to the electorate as the hallmark of strong nationalist gove...

The reason given out for actress and model Fan Bingbing’s disappearance was tax evasion. Artist-activist Ai Weiwei was under state surveillance for a long time. In a 2008 earthquake in Sichuan m...