Opinion

It turns out one doesn’t actually need to know anything about the ecology or India to be an ecological activist in India.

Some of our reservations about Chinese intentions stem from a complete lack of trust that resulted from China unilaterally breaking all the border agreements and protocols that had kept the peace along the LAC.

Kerala has the wherewithal to store, distribute and administer the Covid-19 vaccine, better than any other state. The agonisingly slow pace of vaccination that we see across the country must pick up urgently.

The BJP is working to assimilate the Mauta identity into the Hindutva identity. The TMC is trying to project their identity as that of the Bengali refugee aspiring for citizenship.

the Narendra Modi-led NDA coalition is distinctly different from both the NDA coalitions led by Vajpayee as well as the United Front and National Front coalitions. They have seen the BJP constituting 90 percent of the NDA strength in the Lok Sabha.

The finance minister has been wise in 'not' taking some decisions, like imposing a wealth tax or a tax on stock market gains. The bad ideas that were floating around before the Budget have been wisely rejected by the FM.

This is a well thought-out budget, and full marks to the team that drafted it, for including steps to attract long-term foreign investment in infrastructure and other yielding assets.

The image of a flag being hoisted by the protestors at the Red Fort, where the national flag was flying is really unfortunate. It hurt the image of the 72nd Republic Day.

There are no easy answers in a society where Hinduism, with its wonderful mix of history, mythology, and literature, has seen its gods, demi-gods and deities featured in works that question their limitations and virtues.

From a situation where India did not have sufficient ventilators and masks to one where we are now exporting this equipment says a lot about how well the manufacturers took up the challenge.

Reservation as an instrument of protective discrimination has become defensive. However, subsidies and the reservation that the privileged enjoy, camouflaged as cultural norm and market principle, have now come out of the closet.

Over the last few years, numerous opposition politicians have made allegations against EVMs, which have been played up by sections of media and civil society. First, it should be clear that these allegations are absurd on their face.

Caste identities constantly take on new incarnations and reappear in our social life. They mutate like viruses and hurt the social bonding needed for development and growth.

India must figure out a way to provide meaningful employment to hundreds of millions of people outside agriculture. Failing to do so means not just a failure of human development,

Organisations could offer vaccinations for employees instead of festival-related annual gifts or to compensate for the travel allowances that were largely unclaimed last year.

Modi said AMU has produced many freedom fighters, who set aside their ideological differences and fought together