By: Imtiaz Alam There is much mystery around today’s general elections, mostly due to known and unknown variants that may influence the outcome of what is being dubbed by independent...

By: Ruchir Joshi One can think of a hug as a floating signifier. There are different kinds of hugs, and these varied human embracements have differing meanings in different societies,...

By: Javaid Trali The fall of the coalition government in J&K did create a political crisis — but the emergence of a new political discourse could be a good omen...

By: Shahid Majeed Mir       Contemporary societies have evolved certain distinguished attributes since times immemorial. These attributes shape and reshape the makeup of society to reorient social attitudes, preferences and beliefs....

By: KHALID SHAH Mehbooba Mufti, the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, has sparked a spate of controversies with her recent statements post the breakup of the BJP-PDP alliance...

By: Tavleen Singh This is a week when I wish I wrote about cinema or fashion instead of politics. This is a topical column so I cannot ignore last week’s...

By: RAMACHANDRA GUHA Milan Kundera once spoke of the importance, for subjects of a totalitarian regime, of 'the struggle of memory against forgetting.' As important, to the citizens of a...

By: JUNAID UL ISLAM Non institutional social work is intended for a child, the child’s parents or other guardians in situations when the child’s rights for a safe and inspirational...

By: Anup Sinha| The recent imposition of trade tariffs by the United States of America and the beginnings of a full-fledged trade war, or the perception that Brexit is going...

By:  Harsh Mander As the grim threat of lynching casts a terrifying shadow over large swathes of the country, directions from India’s Supreme Court to all governments to take steps...