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The inauguration of the country’s new Parliament Building May 28 should have been an occasion for national celebration, but it got mired in ugly political bickering and a slugfest between the ruling BJP and an Opposition combine of 19 parties. For the unseemly turn of...

The problem of India’s Parliament is the quality of debate, the lack of time spent discussing important legislation, the absence of quality for the most part in speeches, the chaos and anarchy, the horse-trading and the disregarding of Opposition and minority opinion. A new building...

Everyone in India knows that the country is run on a simple principle: Show me the man, and I’ll show you the rule. In fact, rules change depending on how influential or otherwise the person likely to be affected by the rules is. The recent...

Conflict between Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and the army, which has come to a head after more than a year of troubled relations, has once again brought to the fore the inherent instability of the country’s political system propped by the armed forces....

The most symbolic element of the just concluded G7 summit in Hiroshima is that it took place in the city which, along with Nagasaki, are the only places in the world that had actually experienced the horrors that nuclear weapons can cause. A key agenda...

It is disconcerting the way the capital of India, New Delhi, is handling some problems faced by women during their daily public interactions. The message that Delhi is sending out is that women need to be segregated or given a defined ‘safe space’ to avoid...

The Congress won Karnataka though the BJP held on to its vote share. The Congress added 5 per cent to get to just under 43 per cent and the BJP lost just 0.2 per cent to get 36 per cent. How did the Congress increase...

The case of Sandeep Silas, an IRTS officer from the 1984 batch, raises concerns about the irreparable damage caused to a babu’s reputation, even after corrective actions have been taken. Recently, the ACC headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved Silas’ empanelment in Higher Administrative...

When youth power is blessed by the old generation, tectonic change may be brought about. For, if the youth have zest for life, love of freedom and daring to challenge repressive regimes, the old have maturity and experience to guide them to achieve their goal....

Turkey’s presidential election is all set to go for a runoff as neither the incumbent, Recep Tayyip Erdogan nor his main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, could get the mandatory 51 per cent of votes for outright victory in the first round. Erdogan secured 49.4 per cent...