By: Sankarshan Thakur Somewhere in his copious meditations on the nature of Soviet Russia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had made a remark whose truth has far outlasted the life of his oppressor...

By: Sameer Fida Hussain The Science of seed germination and its subsequent development into a mature plant fascinated me from my kindergarten days. The small garden dotted with beautiful cypress...

By: Harith Hasan On September 1, some 150 protestors gathered at the main entrance of Iraq's large oilfield, Nahr Bin Omar, threatening to break in and disrupt production. Thousands of...

By: Saim Umer  Are there really no solutions to Kashmir problem? Are we all going to face this democratic Hitlerism for generations? Every morning I wake up and get to...

By: Vikram S Mehta Our former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and the veteran and respected journalist, Kuldip Nayar, passed away within a week of each other. Sandwiched between their...

By: Manini Chatterjee Two developments took place on August 28 with no apparent connection. All chief ministers and deputy chief ministers belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (barring Goa's Manohar...

By: Mushtaq Hurra Rebellion becomes inevitable when rights are snatched, silence erupts like volcano when innocence is misunderstood as weakness, harsher protests and agitations become the order of the day...

By: Dr Khursheed Ahmad Wani This article is based on the confessions that have been put forth by the teachers who are working in private run educational institutions and the...

By: Arundhati Roy This morning’s papers settle something that we have been debating for a while. A front-page report in the Indian Express says “Police to Court: Those held part...

BY: Neera Chandhoke It is a truth universally acknowledged that the modern democratic state, armed with technologies of surveillance and control, possesses the kind of power that has never ever...