Opinion

Protesting against the Cauvery issue is one thing, but turning it into a battle between linguistic identities is quite another and it has been done by political parties in both states, purely for electoral advantage.

As much as we hate to see graphic images on cigarette covers, morbid PSAs, and annoying disclaimers during movies, they have been drilling the harmful effects of tobacco use into the psyche of Indians for years.

The horizontal and vertical growth in our healthcare system and services can best be summarised from the fact that even after 70 years of Independence, people in rural areas are forced to carry dead bodies on their shoulders while being denied transportat...

I think CBSE is not run by sensitive and sensible members. It needs reorientation and reconstruction.

While the Left Front government headed by Manik Sarkar had to pay the price of anti-incumbency in Tripura, Naveen Patnaik’s affair with the voters shows no signs of souring any time soon. Besides, there is hardly any party that can act as a force multipli...

In a nation which never fails to talk about its Gandhi, its Buddha and its Mahavir, it is callous enough to let its rich and reckless get away with murder on the road

Congress Rajya Sabha MP KVP Ramachandra Rao advised party chief Rahul Gandhi to not depend on leaders of Rao's generation as they will be "useful for probably one more election", and what Congress needs, is a team that "can fight five more elections".

The Pasmanda politics offers a creative reinterpretation of the complex relationship between communalism and caste-based reservation. The demand that Muslims and Christian ‘Dalit’ castes should also be given the SC status points toward the fact that caste...

While the budgetary allocation in the past few years, including this year's, has been encouraging, the government needs to take a more comprehensive outlook towards improving the state of road transport in India.

The big question that emerges from this budget is, what took Jaitley so long? If he wanted to set up 115 aspirational districts featuring new models of development, he could have done so in his first budget and by this time, the results of these experimen...

PM Modi showcased his marketing skills in identifying his target audience and making the correct pitch, in a correct manner. Modi was statesman-like and his speech was relevant for the forum and beneficial for India.

It is an open secret that former RSS colleagues Pravin Togadia and Narendra Modi had fallen out long back and never tried to keep it a secret.

Aziz Ansari is no Harvey Weinstein. He is not even your ordinary Hollywood guy. In a world of white men, Ansari went on to make a career using comedy to explore modern day relationships.

That the Congress, without a proper cadre was able to catch as much as 41% of the vote share, reflects the huge disenchantment with the economy, and with the oppression let loose on the lower castes.

The six nuclear tests are not only special because of their yield capacity but also because of other technological sophistication. North Korea has consistently followed its nuclear ambitions and has been able to overcome most of the obstacles in the journ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is known to buck the trend. The past 20 months have been tumultuous for Kumar, who recently dumped the secular but ‘tainted’ Lalu Yadav to embrace the ‘communal’ BJP.