Opinion

When posterity records its verdict on how a world that boasts of near mastery over nature handled Covid-19, we will certainly be hauled over the coals. History will censure us for a collective failure...

The author teaches philosophy at the Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati ...

Sir — It is unfortunate that at a time when coronavirus infections in India are rising, monuments protected by the Archaeological Survey of India have been reopened to the public after a shutdown of...

Progress must be put into context. This would be a prudent approach to take towards the findings of the Sample Registration System statistical report for 2018, which show, among other things, that 13 ...

Silence articulates the unspeakable far better than words. The spokesman of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Sambit Patra, a doctor no less, did not need his leaders’ speeches to be assured of their ...

Sir — Monsoon evenings spent at home were once unimaginable without a hot cup of tea along with an assortment of fritters like beguni, peyaji, phuluri, daler bora or at the very least piping hot...

Birthday presents need not always be pleasant. Twenty-three years after China regained Hong Kong from Britain by committing to honour the ‘one country, two systems’ model, Beijing gifted i...

Susan Miller, a leading astrologer in the United States of America, had predicted in January that 2020 would “be a great... and... prosperous year,” going on to add that Capricorn would be...

Sir — It is now a truth universally acknowledged that Indians are masters of ‘jugaad’ — resourcefulness that helps people overcome adversities by coming up with innovative solu...

The former Janata Dal (Secular) state chief and one of the defectors who brought down the coalition government, AH Vishwanath, is set to launch his ‘tell-all’ account about the revolt that...