Opinion

While it has given more seats to stability, it has also given a big pat to novelty. While it has given thumbs up to espousers of Marxian theorems, it’s the right of the centre which has emerged the final winner. In short, voters have risen and vote banks...

There is a need for a progressive ideology to foster the business and human rights, just like trade unionism which influenced a number of legislation on labour for decades.

Cost overrun in government projects is not only a waste of public money, but results in potential opportunity cost for all stakeholders in the form of delayed availability of asset for public use.

Initially, people did not realise the importance of adding a check on the steadily increasing pollution. Their ignorance and negligence have, however, brought irreparable damage to the environment. Air pollution is the biggest environmental risk of our ti...

The narrow margin between the two candidates shows that for all the divisiveness that President Donald Trump has stoked, the political divide may still continue to grow wider.

It is undeniably true that the uninterrupted conduct of elections, even in the wake of the pandemic, is essential for democracies to sustain and thrive.

The idea behind distancing himself from his father’s shadow is to target the younger vote-bank between the age group of 18 to 30 years who constitute nearly 24 per cent of the population and were born after 1990. These voters do not have strong memories o...

All three leaders — Ram Vilas Paswan, Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar — who emerged from the JP movement, were beneficiaries of the collapse of the Congress in the Hindi heartland and simultaneous rise of identity politics.

The fear of catching the infection, loneliness, and depression caused by social isolation, uncertainty and stress caused due to the economic impact of the lockdown, and finally dealing with Coronavirus if infected, all amounted to a spike in the mental he...

In many parts of the country, low overall death rates and the lockdown fatigue are resulting in people, including those of high-risk categories, letting their guard down after months of protecting themselves from the virus.

If the coronavirus does not kill you, constant questions about how you got it and how you are feeling may well do the damage.

In a subtle fight between coalition partners, Singh's thunder was stolen by Rahul Gandhi who went with a petition to PM Manmohan Singh seeking to raise the MGNREG scheme coverage to all districts.

In a time of the USA's dwindling influence on world economy and the coronavirus pandemic that has affected everyone, the least that both countries want is a war or even a skirmish.

Although he was at the pinnacle of his public life, power and glory did not corrupt him. I found in him the same Pranab Da- down to earth, simple and easy to communicate.

With Pranab Mukherjee's death, an entire generation of the Congress is coming to an end. Perhaps, he was the only one who remembered the history of the Congress right from 1885 along with all events and their dates. He had also learned the constitution of...

Whatever little information is available about RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar appears to have been peddled around with an objective to create a stereotype.