Opinion

Social media has provided them the space where they can ventilate their anger and interact with other groups for the same cause. Hundreds of websites have come into existence which are revolutionising the minds of Dalits.

Rahul's purported statement has handed ammunition to the BJP on a platter ahead of the general elections next year.

The Nitish Kumar government realised that it was about time, months before the crucial Lok Sabha polls, to give some relief to the common people.

Shah Faesal’s tweet could be a manifestation of helplessness we civil servants feel, with macabre crimes taking place and unable to do anything about it.

Jammu and Kashmir direly needs someone whose first priority is restoration of normalcy for the electorate rather than the elected. Governor NN Vohra fits into that mould very well.

What explains the sordid history of political butchery in Kannur? In 'KANNUR: Inside India’s Bloodiest Revenge Politics', senior journalist Ullekh NP explores the history and sociology of this tragic phenomenon.

This protest was different than the earlier ones. Unlike other dharnas in the past, this one was pre-selected to take care of comforts like Air Conditioning and soft sofas.

What surprised the people was the fact that in the nearly two months since it came to know about the missing keys, the state government had neither lodged an FIR nor initiated an administrative inquiry on the issue.

He first came into the public eye in 2011 when he tried to negotiate a settlement between Anna Hazare and the Union government, during the former's anti-corruption movement in Delhi.

For too long, success in Jammu and Kashmir has been held hostage primarily to security parameters — violent incidents, terrorists killed etc. Now is the time to strengthen civil society, regain political space and break the recruitment cycle of local yout...

The violence, of course, as the Chef Minister Conrad Sangma stated was politically motivated has some rationale.

Having unseated Congress chief minister Sheila Dikshit from power in 2013, it’s truly ironic that Kejriwal is now reaching out to the same ‘corrupt’ Congress leader for an alliance, that too in less than five years.

The American literary icon died on Tuesday night at a hospital in Manhattan. He was eighty-five.

The fall of BS Yeddyurappa’s two-day government in Karnataka has given bragging rights to BJP critics in south India. That the land below the Vindhyas remains BJP-mukt. The non-saffron colour of the stretch from Kerala to West Bengal will not amuse the Mo...

We can't have ceasefire only till Eid. If after the end of Ramzan guns start roaring again in the valley, the whole exercise will be meaningless.

The National Film Awards were presented on May 3 in New Delhi, but many recipients decided to 'boycott' the ceremony over the president handing over the honour to only a select set of winners.