A change.org petition against a French film Cuties, streaming on Netflix, has the signatures of over 600,000 people. It beseeches…
The ongoing agitation by the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) in Punjab and Haryana is baffling; for the stir leaders are…
Votaries of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Pakistan are trying to convince their compatriots, and the world, that the…
The sky has character. And color, indeed a wide range of colors—blue, red, orange. We had forgotten these facts; at…
In a famous couplet, Mirza Ghalib wondered about the limitlessness of desire: Hai kahāñ tamannā kā dūsrā qadam yā rab/ham…
India has rightly condemned Facebook for promoting “vested lobby that abhors free speech.” The condemnation couldn’t have come at a…
The biggest danger with bad ideas is that they get accepted very fast, and equally fast they spread. The national…
Burning of the Quran may be the trigger to the riots in the Swedish city of Malmo but the violence…
The violence in the Swedish city of Malmo is a manifestation of the spread and virulence of radical Islam. More…
How the mighty fall! The Congress, the country’s oldest party that successfully fought against the world’s largest empire, has become…
The 41st meeting of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council proved inconclusive because the political class is yet to…
With the loyalists of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty throwing their weight behind Sonia Gandhi and Rahul, the group of 23 senior…
Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power and the Congress was crushed in May 2014, the country has…
When about a couple of dozen senior leaders of a party challenge the top bosses, it looks like rebellion rather…
Facebook’s refusal to remove or censor certain posts by Bharatiya Janata Party leaders has once again brought the issue of…
The setting up of up a joint working group (JWG) between the public sector Rashtriya Ispat Nigam (RINL) and Korean…
When you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind. And when a company tries to become the arbiter of truth—as…
Privatization in India resembles Godot in Samuel Beckett’s famous play ‘Waiting for Godot.’ Like Godot, it never arrives. There is…
Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms will do well to remain what they are—technological firms providing platforms—and not try…
The science fiction blockbuster, The Matrix, was released in 1999. Two decades later, we can say that the movie was…
In his speech on the 74the Independence Day from the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dwelled on a variety…