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History is a tricky entity. It is essentially a record of past events, as observed by an individual or a group of individuals with the abilities to write in whichever script,  that a later generation may desire to know to understand the driving forces that...

The world is worried about its Vishwaguru as our mismanagement of corona has become a global story. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, an independent research centre in the United States, has estimated that by September, which means four months, another 10 lakh Indians...

While the administration has been widely rebuked for complacency in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic, a district magistrate in Tripura is in trouble for being overly enthusiastic in enforcing night curfew rules during a marriage in the state capital Agartala. A video that recorded...

Victor Galaz Silicon Valley leaders tell us that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring untold benefits. They say it is already underway and accelerating, powered by artificial intelligence and other technologies, and warn that we will be left eating dust if we don’t get with...

Some months ago Anoushka, Abhishek, Sarthak, Garvita and Rishabh wrote to me from Thapar Institute and Technology, Patiala College in Patiala, requesting guidance with an animal welfare group they had started on the campus called Puppers Helpers Tiet. This gave me a new idea –...

The BJP’s rout in West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu in the recent Assembly polls is symptomatic of the fate of the BJP’s brand of politics centring around communal polarisation and the slogan of “sabka sath, sabka vikas”. The defeat of the widely respected ‘Metroman’...

When India is fighting a grim battle against the second wave of Covid-19, here comes the shocking revelation from the fugitive Serum Institute of India (SII) chief Adar Poonawalla that the vaccine shortage will continue through July as the government didn’t anticipate in January the...

The results of the elections to four states and one Union Territory on May 2, as the seat figures demonstrate, are a resounding rejection of the BJP’s brand of politics so aggressively championed by its sole leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Union Home...

The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has run into a wall of bureaucratic denial. The anti-corruption watchdog regularly reviews pending cases and even called for a probe into pending corruption cases, but little has resulted from its efforts. Earlier this year in January, the commission set...

Maxwell Gomera As many as 150 million people globally, roughly the combined population of Canada, France, and the United Kingdom, may have fallen into pandemic-induced extreme poverty over the past year. Partly as a result, governments are currently pumping unprecedented amounts of money into their...