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God/universe/nature has a strict rule: all the suffering caused by man will have to be borne by man. Is anyone on this planet happy? Rich or poor? Hindus call it the law of Karma. Other religions simply dismiss it as coincidence. The root of all...

What has been in the realm of suspicion, surmise and disbelief will now be probed to ascertain whether there was truth in it or not. There could be high voltage politics in the move to investigate the matter, but one way to get to the...

An expression coined by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was ‘foreign hand’. Her successors - Rajiv Gandhi and Manmohan Singh - also used it aplenty. It was essentially a bogey resorted to whenever the former PMs found public criticism of their internal policies too hot...

The three hour nationwide chakka jam on February 6 by farmers agitating against the three farm laws has nailed the lie dished out by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to the international community that only a small section of farmers have reservations about the...

The Economist is a magazine though it refers to itself as a newspaper. It is over 175 years old and sells about 10 lakh copies a week. Its readers are mostly professionals, highly educated and with higher incomes. It is one of the very few...

Kerala’s Chief Secretary Vishwas Mehta came under fire from the National Green Tribunal (NGT) over the continued ineffective solid waste management in Kochi. According to sources, the tribunal made scathing remarks against the state government while criticizing the affidavit filed by Mehta and threatened to...

A refrain in this year’s Budget was ‘spend’. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, during her 100 plus-minute speech, was at pains to state that ‘We have spent, we have spent and we have spent’. In fact, the government claimed it spent Rs 4.1 lakh crore...

In 2013, India started using Neonicotinoid pesticides in order to protect a crop that Monsanto had promised the Indian farmer he would not have to use pesticides on. These are the worst pesticides in the world and they have been indicted for having killed billions...

People in Myanmar woke up February 1 to see the country’s hybrid democracy suffer a body blow with the generals taking over the administration in a coup. The citizens had learnt to live with military rule for decades, but they thought it was a thing...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman read out her 10,500 worded Budget 2021-22 speech in slightly over 100 minutes. Media has labeled it one of the shortest budgets in recent memory. The times justify this brevity because, maybe, not much was to be said. The nation has...