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The legacy of milk drinking has not come to us from Krishna or the Vedas – nowhere in any of sacred texts does anyone drink milk – but from the British. Rabid milk drinkers, they brought this culture into India, started the first dairy farms...

Dictators too have their heart set at the right spot, they may sympathize and empathise, but they do not shed tears in the public realm. They do not need to. But, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has come to demonstrate he is a different...

Word is out that a certified Covid vaccine could be expected for distribution in three months’ time. Hints are also that the pandemic situation could overall be brought under control by the middle of 2021. This optimism is despite some set-backs in efforts at evolution...

The intervention of the Supreme Court on Monday to re-examine the recently passed farm Bills was only to be expected. Farmers in various states are upset with the provisions of the new Central legislation and are protesting even in the face of the health risks...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today stated the obvious when he said there is a Pakistan angle to the aggressive Chinese movements in Ladakh region and along the LAC in recent months. He said the creation of a dispute in Ladakh was part of a ‘mission’,...

As another election season approaches and Bihar is emerging as a test case to ascertain the way forward for democracy in these trying times plagued by the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the BJP is shrinking. The NDA is left with...

If I do not acknowledge that I have a problem I cannot solve it. If the problem is minor this is less consequential and does not affect me beyond a point. It is only an irritant that I can continue to ignore. If the problem...

Frequent transfer is a fait accompli in government. But Pimpri- Chinchwad police commissioner Sandeep Bishnoi, who was recently transferred, has approached the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) challenging his transfer order. He was moved out from his post in less than a year. He has been...

The Centre has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court agreeing to bear the loss of banks which may result from a proposed waiver of compound interest i.e. ‘interest on interest’ on loans up to Rs 2 crore for most vulnerable category of borrowers for...

I am reading A Curious History of Food and Drink, by Ian Crofton, and the more I read the sadder I get. It is a compilation of such savagery, such insane greed for destruction, such insensitivity, that I wonder what an alien reading it would...