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In the book/film ‘Sophie’s Choice’, the protagonist is forced to choose between the lives of her two children. How would you decide? Many meat eaters try to justify killing animals by claiming they can neither feel nor think. They place intelligence as the primary criterion...

The State Government has, in a Cabinet meet held 28 Dec 2020, decided to reserve seats in Engineering and Medical courses for students passing out of government schools. This has been done to encourage government school students who are currently dropping out in large numbers....

Undeterred by repeated judicial pronouncements to the contrary, the Madhya Pradesh government seems to on a crusade against the so-called love jihad. On the other hand, the BJP led Karnataka government had announced early December it won’t bring the love-jihad legislation in the winter session....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to kill two targets – the ongoing farmers’ agitation and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee - with one swipe in his much-awaited interaction with farmers at a virtual event on 25 December. The exercise, however, showed a deplorable lack of...

The prime minister says he wants farmers to double their income but does not want the government to do it. He believes that his laws favouring corporates will expand the market for farmers but does not explain how this will happen. Corporates are not going...

Earlier this year, Arvind Panagariya, former vice-chief of the government 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...

The farmers’ protests are showing no signs of abating. Four weeks into the agitation, the Centre and the agitating farmers have failed to find a meeting ground. Both the sides are adamant in their respective stand. In this backdrop, the suggestion of the Supreme Court...

Last week a barasingha strayed into a field in Panchkula. She ate a ball of wheat, only to find it was a homemade bomb and her jaw and throat were blasted off. Passersby saw her sitting calmly on the side of the road, bleeding. They...

The much publicised meeting between G-23 leaders, i.e. a group of 23 senior Congress dissenters and the party’s interim president Sonia Gandhi on the back lawn of her residence at 10 Janpath can at best be described as an exercise in breaking the ice and...

The sudden decision taken by Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to dissolve Parliament on Sunday has plunged the Himalayan country into a new phase of political turmoil. Though the crisis is due to an internal power struggle within the Nepal Communist Party (NCP), the...