It is a commentary on the low esteem with which politicians are held that the articulation of what is sometimes referred to as the ‘vision thing’ has faded from our list of expectations. P...
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Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy has compared India of today to a plane moving in reverse and claimed that it was "headed for a crash".
She was speaking on Wednesday at the launch of the b...
Familiar bite
Sir — As Calcutta heads into the stuffy summer months, Bengalis can be seen packing their bags and setting off for favoured destinations like Digha, Puri or Darjeeling — fon...
Muscles are necessary for the body. But a muscular regime need not be necessarily healthy for the body politic of a secular democracy. Of course, the Bharatiya Janata Party is forever eager to flex it...
We are endorsing a radical modification in ourselves, at once mindfully and mindlessly, whose price and penalty we should prepare ourselves to have to pay. When it comes down, and whatever shape or si...
The proverbial — bigoted — leopard seldom changes its spots. It, therefore, does not come as a surprise that India’s capital city was shamed, once again, by yet another ‘Hindu ...
Apartheid is usually associated with South Africa. Embedded racism was the beating heart of this ogre. But racial discrimination is prevalent in other nations too. Similarly, South Africa is not the o...
The Centre on Thursday fielded eight ministers to launch a counter-attack on the Opposition, accusing it of threatening behaviour, denigrating Parliament and seeking an apology and strongest possible ...
Illiterate adults will now get literacy training online, but some experts fear this could lead to the students gradually moving away from learning to write on paper to only recognising letters a...