Opinion

When you have a systematic, across-the-board demonstration of racism by all western media channels, everyone just wants to ignore it and pretend it never happened.

Over 98 per cent entrepreneurs stay small by choice because the moment they aspire for growth and become a part of formal economy, they will have to comply with over 400 compliances a year.

Kashmir’s futile tryst with conservatism and social orthodoxy has only pushed Kashmiri society further deep down the abyss of mental stagnation.

Despite the collapse of Soviet Union and its ideological challenge, America’s Cold War with Russia did not end geopolitically. It took the form of expanding Nato closer to Russia’s borders.

The signing of the India-UAE CEPA demonstrates that the Narendra Modi government has mastered the art of practical policy-making.

For all we know, CFI could be the next SIMI, radicalising young students on campuses and taking a lethal shape in the years to come.

No party has yet come to grips with the wide-ranging issues in Punjab: endemic corruption, sacrilege, drug menace, mafias, poor infrastructure, rural debt and unemployment.

For an outsider to author the most comprehensive and authoritative work on the leftist bete-noir Savarkar is like a rival gang moving into Pablo Escobar’s territory

At the heart of Uttar Pradesh’s economic development is the Industrial Investment and Employment Promotion Policy 2017.

Children are not empty vessels to be filled up with information. Research has shown the chaos which digital divide created in the lives of children.

Clerics are now expressing their concern about people, particularly youngsters, leaving the fold of Islam.

Almost all that the Imran Khan government’s National Security Policy contains by way of aspirations cannot be achieved in five years, or for that matter anytime in the foreseeable future.

China is aware that any further attempt at salami slicing would be met with resolute firmness. It is also aware that pulling back early would imply that its misadventure has been thwarted.

For now, not too much should be read into the spats along the Durand Line. In a way, these border incidents serve as an alibi for both Pakistan and the Taliban.

When Shah Jahan was governor of the Deccan, he added various buildings within Badshahi Qila, including a hammam. It was here that Mumtaz Mahal died on the night of 16-17 June 1631.

The most public victims of Bangladesh’ repudiation of its own commitments to secularism and democracy have been Bangladeshi Hindus as well as secular Muslims, Ahmedis, homosexuals and even Sufis.