OPINION

Voting was never the whole of it. Democracy also lived in the wan penj, the small shop-front where neighbours drifted...

 Dear Prime Minister, India is preparing to celebrate another Independence Day. The Tricolour will rise. The anthem will play. Speeches...

There is perhaps no political instrument more powerful than faith. Governments can offer jobs, welfare and security, while political parties...

Once intended to support weak students, private tuition has evolved into a parallel education system—one that exposes the failures of...

From prognosis to diagnosis, from safe delivery to critical brain & cardiac bypass surgery, from simple fracture to complex knee...

Every year, World Breastfeeding Week reminds us of one of the simplest and most powerful ways to give every child...

The world is entering a period in which stability can no longer be taken for granted. Jobs that once appeared...

Every few years, India finds itself engaged in a familiar debate: Should reservation continue, or should it be abolished? The...

In most places, an armed policeman walking beside someone indicates danger. In Kashmir, he can also indicate status. A politician...

Human beings rarely see the world as it is. We see it as we are. Our experiences, upbringing, education, culture,...