Opinion

Refreshing drink Sir — A local brewery in Singapore recently collaborated with the national water agency to make a oneof-a-kind beer, NewBrew, by recycling toilet water. Its resemblance to regu...

Silent treatment • Agnipath protesters in Bihar burnt trains, vandalised railway porperty, blocked traffic and attacked Bharatiya Janata Party offices, leaders and their houses. The fury of the ...

There is reason to be afraid. When Amartya Sen says this, it indicates the scale of the damage that has been wrought on India’s social and cultural fabric. Mr Sen was on a panel discussing the n...

In a recent television interview, the actor, Akshay Kumar, commented on the contents of history textbooks in India. While discussing his recent film, Samrat Prithviraj — loosely based on the &ld...

We do hope you understand. And if you do not, well, so be it. There are no two ways about it, there is but one: we are we, inclusive of you. And should you wish not to be included do remember that the...

Although I grew up in North India, the newspaper that came into our home was headquartered in a great city then called Calcutta. This was The Statesman, whose main edition was published in the first c...

The so-called ‘Good and Simple Tax’ is at great risk of becoming more complicated even as the Narendra Modi government celebrates the fifth anniversary of the indirect tax reform that aime...

Survival skill Sir — For hundreds of years, the kitchen was demarcated as the exclusive domain of women. The idea of men cooking or helping out in the kitchen — especially those from cer...

In crisis Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States of America decided to overturn Roe vs Wade, a landmark judgment that legalised abortion in the country. Now, the right to legislate on abor...

Look East Sir — Students have long favoured the United States of America and countries in Europe for pursuing higher education. But as the West grapples with rising political and social conflic...