Opinion

In March 1949, Pakistan took its first formal step towards becoming a failed democracy by adopting the idea of a theocratic state

Unlike Nawaz and Benazir who handled their ousters with dignity, we now have the spectacle of Pakistan’s PM mumbling off street-level conspiracy theories as official explanations

In our quest for instant gratification, we may cause untold damage to ourselves and the environment which may not be easy to reverse

Senior students are finding it extremely tedious to return to schools; they are not ready to conform to early morning schedules, uniforms, timetables and teacher authority

The Chief Minister of West Bengal has faced no serious questioning of her disastrous record on law and order, endless political violence, failure to attract investment or anything else

Capital markets are a representative of trust in the financial system. NSE is a symbol of that trust; if there are cracks in the edifice, they cannot be papered over

When an ideology of exclusive belief which basically implies ideas like 'we are going to heaven, others are going to hell,' splinters, each part exhibits the same antipathy towards the 'other'

There is a need for primary prevention and clinical intervention and spreading awareness about child sexual abuse as well as empathic responses towards survivors

Violence has been an integral part of West Bengal. The state witnessed the gravest of grave crimes, including mass murders, over the decades. All were normalised, trivialised, forgotten

In the absence of a much-awaited solution for a faster and cheaper route to global vaccination, pharmaceutical giants continue to make record profits from the COVID-19 vaccines

By 1951, only 790 non-Muslims were alive out of a total population of 114,000 Hindus and Sikhs in PoJK. Today there are none. The Mirpur massacre death toll is put over 20,000.

The Kashmir Files isn’t just a movie that is based on video interviews with first-generation Kashmiri Pandit victims of the macabre Kashmir Genocide

BJP government cannot keep walking into rhetorical traps set by its foes. Even if it had won 400 seats in UP, they would have come up with some other test of legitimacy for the party.

Yogi Adityanath's story has progressed to the part where we are quite likely to see a saffron-clad Prime Minister in our lifetimes.

China has to exhibit more maturity and responsibility suited to a growing super power, in South China Sea as well as along the India-China border.

As Gujarat CM, Narendra Modi strove for mangrove protection along the coast. During his tenure, the population of both Asiatic lions at Gir and the wild ass of Rann of Kutch grew.