Opinion

The two leaders with the promise of building big statues of Lord Parashuram, a warrior Brahmin icon, are setting themselves against the Phule-Ambedkar ideology that Kanshiram popularised among the OBC and Dalits of UP.

Kashmiri leaders cannot hoodwink people anymore by saying “Jai Hind” in New Delhi and preaching secessionism in the Valley.

It may be argued that the US has no choice but to support India even if the Democrats come to power, with China’s renewed, all-around aggression. But it is the ‘degree’ of support that will matter.

The youth of the country is looking forward to more application-based, job-oriented and skill-based education together with an option to pursue their hobbies and talent. Hence, a comprehensive policy document was the need of the hour.

The Non-cooperation Movement was a mere appendage, indeed a fig-leaf for the Khilafat Movement.

PM seized the psychological advantage as soon as he touched down in Leh. His walk was confident, the chants of Vande Mataram and Bharat Mata Ki Jai ensured that immediately the Josh was High!

Worryingly, Beijing may have concluded from India’s history that heightened aggression along the LAC will invariably bring India to the negotiating table.

Arvind Bansod and Viraj Jagtap can be called Maharashtra’s own George Floyds—the victims of a regressive system that discriminates and bestows privilege based on an accident of birth.

The fog of war surrounding Covid-19 and the desperation of the scientific community and practitioners to have evidence-informed medicines and vaccines may give room for large- scale manipulation of studies, like the Lancet controversy proves.

The role, power and duties of the committee members of CHS and RWAs has been debated widely during the Covid lockdown period. This debate is slated to only get more heated, as we enter phases of relaxing lockdowns in some areas and putting additional resp...

The policies, quietly supported by the Centre, seem oriented towards making workers and farmers more rather than less vulnerable to livelihood insecurity.

In the first of a two-part series on how the COVID-19 pandemic has raised consciousness about the dangers of biological warfare Ambassador Puri writes on how bioweapons and biosecurity have overtaken violent conflict as the primary global security concern...

Faced with rising majoritarian assertion, the Shiv Sena, which reinvented itself as a Hindutva force in the 1980s, may return to its nativist, Marathi roots to frame a larger sub-nationalist agenda about the Centre’s “injustice” against Maharashtra.

There is no blueprint for a post Covid-19 economic and political order. The pre-existing trends towards deglobalisation (or a different form of globalisation) and the rise of sovereignist forces is accelerating as a result of Covid-19, but how will this r...

Stating that a nation with 1.3-billion population cannot solely dependent on government efforts for the welfare of society, Bhagwat called all social organisations and citizens to support the needy in this hour of pandemic.

Let us protect our assets from distress sale. If one argues that such regulation at this juncture itself would be an over-reaction, one would do well to remember history.