By: Dipak Mishra Politicians often take on different personas when it comes to negotiating the number of seats with their allies, and end up ignoring the ground reality. Bihar’s chief...

By: Imaduddin Ahmed WHEN considering investment in an infrastructure project, responsible investors or donors would ask: what is the need? What are the financial, social and environmental costs? What are...

By: Winnie M Li Ten years ago, when I was raped, I never could have predicted a single six-character hashtag would come to symbolise — at least for the media...

By: Ghazi Salahuddin Who do you think are the most distinguished Pakistanis who inspire you and make you feel good about your country? This is one of the questions that...

By: Rayees Masroor Hailing from a small border village of Farkin in one of the extreme corners of district Kupwara, the iconic Dr Ruveda Salam became the very first woman...

By: K.P. Nayar When Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi stand together at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Friday afternoon to witness the signing of several...

By: Yoginder K. Alagh Two policy issues remain a flea in my ear and I keep reiterating them in my column. The first is: Does the money we aim to...

BY: Shah Alam Khan A report in The Indian Express (‘Health to poverty: Tribals scrape bottom of barrel’, IE, September 15) drew our attention to the findings of an Expert...

BY: Ananya Vajpeyi Truth, Satya, was the central axis of the Gandhian system of thought and practice. For Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, everything turned on Truth — satyagraha, swaraj, ahimsa, ashram,...

By: KAMAL CHENOY It was clear to most activists that the Supreme Court, as it was constituted, would reject the case of five activists, accused of espousing Maoist causes, arguably...