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Eleven years ago, November 26, India’s defences against external threats were put to test at its commercial capital Mumbai. That terrible terror attack is still fresh in memory. Come 2015, that same date of November 26 was adopted as Constitution Day. If in 2008 this...

A report published by the news website The Wire debunks Union government’s claim, made October 2, 2019, that rural India was open defecation free. While that claim implied that every household now had access to a toilet, the reality is far removed from that. A...

Nothing has changed; nothing probably will; history merely repeats itself. Many had thought they had already seen the lowliest of the low of politics. Were they surprised! What has happened and is happening in Maharashtra reaffirms that there is always a ‘new’ low for politicos...

New Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde has expressed himself in favour of starting a National Judicial Service as part of the urgently needed judicial reforms in the country. He rooted for this even before he formally took charge this week. Obviously, he intends...

The Winter Session of Parliament started Monday amid some gains and some losses for the Treasury as also the Opposition benches. The Modi 2.0 government passed through the first session of the current Parliament with relative ease and this was termed as the “most productive”...

The troubles of the telecom sector have proven to be the last straw that broke the back of Reliance Communications. Anil Dhirubhai Ambani has finally quit chairmanship of the company, along with four other directors, acceding to insolvency proceedings initiated last May. The tower and...

Much was made of a ‘promise’ that Prime Minister Narendra Modi made during the Lok Sabha election campaign in 2014. He had said that if he and his party were elected to power, he would ensure that every Indian would have Rs 15 lakh deposited...

Thirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan, TN Seshan has probably left behind a record worth emulating for other bureaucrats. What Seshan did as the Chief Election Commissioner of the country was unprecedented and it remains unsurpassed. His was perhaps the most visible bureaucratic position of that time...

India, today, is no one’s envy. A nation known long for its poverty and filth was slowly transforming into a modern democratic state that was attracting global attention. It was never the contribution of any politician, judge or bureaucrat, nor even of any global level...

Early this week, India pulled out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) summit at the eleventh hour. The fact that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had flown in to Bangkok to take part in the RCEP deliberations had most of us believe that India would...