The Unicef has brought to focus an old problem that has taken calamitous proportions in recent times — malnutrition. It has estimated that almost eight million children under the age of five are...

Cheerleaders may croon even when there is not much to cheer about. Consider the case of the trumpeting of the controversial Agnipath scheme by several leading lights of Indian industry. They are of th...

Debates on same-sex marriage in traditional societies such as ours have more to do with cultural moorings than logically conclusive arguments. Prima facie, marriage is the most prominent form of ...

A young nun was murdered and her body dumped in the well of a convent at midnight 30 years ago. A  priest and a nun were convicted in this sensational case after 28 years of investigation and sen...

The US Supreme Court has reversed its 1973 decision and eliminated the constitutional right to abortion. This allows every state legislature in the United States of America to regulate abortion. Many ...

Sport mirrors life. Perhaps that is why trans athletes are as marginalised in sport as they are in life. There is a long history of discrimination against LGBTQIA+ athletes in games. The American tran...

Why has the Congress been unable, over the last eight years, to challenge the Bharatiya Janata Party on the turf of nationalism? After all, the Congress is the party that won India its freedom, shaped...

Grey is golden Sir — Recent research from the University of Singapore has shown that although it is reputed for being the virtual playground of teenagers, TikTok is popular among the elderly, s...

Art and life This year’s Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, which has been going for 254 years — I have long argued that India should have something similar — focused on &ldquo...

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s reluctance to nominate Muslim leaders to contest the Rajya Sabha election is a relatively new phenomenon. It is well-known that the BJP does not prefer to give ticke...