Opinion

Sir — It is criminal to not follow Covid-19 protocols in a public space given the spike in cases across the country (“Metro commuters flout mask mandate”, April 12). The government a...

Losing sight of the bigger picture is easy when a crisis presents itself. While India’s population and health infrastructure are groaning under the weight of the highly contagious coronavirus, a...

It is deeply heartening when the Supreme Court speaks firmly in support of Constitutional rights. While dismissing a public interest litigation against superstition, black magic and religious conversi...

The farmers’ movement is now entering a new phase. While the government is trying to tire out the protesters and push the protest out of the media’s glare, the farmers are gearing up to ma...

The elections in West Bengal are being considered by many to be a decisive fight to stem the swelling tide of right-wing populism in India embodied in the ideology of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Mamat...

The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the global economy hard, increasing poverty in practically every country, reducing employment and pulling people down from middle-income brackets into low-income groups, ...

Bengal has a long and chequered history of political violence. The death of four voters at the hands of the Central Industrial Security Force and the ugly politics that has been unleashed in the after...

Sir — The suffering of black people in the United States of America never seems to end. The most recent incident occurred in Minneapolis where a police officer reportedly shot a 20-year-old blac...

India is fortunate in having a prime minister who can only see the brightest side. In a discussion with chief ministers regarding the alarming rise in Covid-19 infections, he announced a ‘Tika U...

Prior to becoming the Ukrainian president in 2019, Volodymyr Zelenskiy was a sitcom star with his only political experience being playing a high school history teacher in the 2015 political satire,&nb...