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I wrote a book that came out a few months ago. The problem with writing books in India, especially non-fiction and related to history, is that not many read such books. The quality of the book and the fame of the author are not important...

The Amarinder Singh-led Congress government in Punjab is getting flak from the Punjab and Haryana High Court and the issue has ramifications across the country. The court has directed the state government to explain how and why it has chosen to appoint Punjab Police Service...

India is witnessing the second wave of the COVID-19. The daily count of COVID infections has ballooned to over 53,000 — the highest in past four months even as the rate of recoveries has come down. Left with no better options to stem the surge,...

India is in the throes of a terrible viral epidemic. Much worse than the bird flu, much worse than the swine flu. It has 91% mortality and, while it is mainly dogs, it can spread to cats of all kinds as well and God knows...

All of us would remember this day one year ago. The nation was pushed into a so called ‘Janata Curfew’ and Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked citizens to bang gongs and ring bells, we were told, to scare away the coronavirus by creating a vibration...

The exodus of refugees from Myanmar (Burma) escaping crackdown by the military junta of that country to the bordering Indian state of Mizoram has created a diplomatic-humanitarian dilemma for India. The repression by the junta since it engineered a coup February 1 to deny power...

India needs to tread cautiously while intensifying defence cooperation with the US Commands in the Indo-Pacific region and Africa ostensibly to checkmate China. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh sounded confident during a joint media address along with US Secretary of Defence General (Retd) Lloyd James Austin...

One of the problems of writing in these times is that little makes sense. There is no real connection to reality with news and therefore commenting on it, which is the work I am doing here, is useless. There is no role for an analyst...

The merger of the Jammu & Kashmir cadre into the UT cadre, among other things, is meant to address the old problem of the acute shortage of IAS officers in the Union territory. The erstwhile J&K cadre had a stipulated strength of 137 IAS officers...

Paddy procurement has always been a problem area in our state. Every year, the government receives flak for its inept handling of the programme. The Odisha State Civil Supplies Corporation (OSCSC), the key player of the state’s `12,000 crore plus paddy procurement programme, has not...