Voters in Bihar don’t want dynastic politics, minority politics, or caste politics—all dead ducks flogged by the Congress Party in its regressive, divisionary, divisive game.
The draft Seeds Bill gets the big ideas right: universal registration, traceability, real penalties. To work for Punjab, it must get federal plumbing and farmer-facing details sorted.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
The US has approved a new pill for menopause symptoms and rolled back the 'black box' warnings that kept women away from HRT. But the long delay exposes an uncomfortable truth.
On 24 August 1949, Jaipal Singh Munda, the driving force behind the Jharkhand movement, argued for political representation and self-governance for the tribal community in the Constituent Assembly.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
The ‘Sparrows’—the signalmen of the Indian Army— were known for their swiftness and agility in establishing secure and reliable communication in battle zones.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
Another academic giving unsolicited advice to Pakistan. Pakistan has never cared about world opinion either Muslim or non-Muslim. It does what it does, irrespective of world opinion. The problem has always been India, always looking for world approval. Right from approaching the UN in 1948 to constantly looking over the shoulder now, India has tied it’s own hands. There is no point in pontificating to Pakit, that’s like water over a duck’s back.
Another academic giving unsolicited advice to Pakistan. Pakistan has never cared about world opinion either Muslim or non-Muslim. It does what it does, irrespective of world opinion. The problem has always been India, always looking for world approval. Right from approaching the UN in 1948 to constantly looking over the shoulder now, India has tied it’s own hands. There is no point in pontificating to Pakit, that’s like water over a duck’s back.