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The Indian citizen is under attack. Today, the country is witnessing two very vocal segments of the population. Notwithstanding the quiet and faceless majority, the smaller two factions have decided to be either supportive of the government or be critiques. The attack seems to be...

Finally, it has come full circle. A young climate activist, Disha Ravi, is arrested and charged with sedition over accusations that she edited and circulated a Google doc toolkit that was also tweeted by internationally famous climate activist Greta Thunberg about the ongoing protests by...

“Chastened” and “subdued” are words not to be found in the lexicon of just ousted US President Donald Trump. That is why even after having been acquitted on 13 February of inciting the horrific attack on the US Capitol after a historic impeachment trial, he...

The Budget delivered earlier this month was praised for two things. First that it was spending money in the right place: capital expenditure, which would create value over the long term. And second that it was transparent. The deficit is three times what it should...

Last year, Arvind Panagariya, former vice-chief of the NITI Aayog, wrote in his book “India Unlimited – Reclaiming the Lost Glory” that Indian babus suffered from the socialist hangover, which has slowed down the pace of reforms the Modi sarkar wishes to introduce. To support...

Fuel prices in the country have been relentlessly rising. There is a consistent upward pressure on diesel and petrol rates. Petrol in the city cost Rs 88.27 per litre Wednesday, while diesel sold at Rs 84.68 per litre. The apparent reason for the upward movement...

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...