Opinion

Dr. D. K. Giri The presidential elections in the United States generate a good deal of interest across the world. The election in November next is drawing more attention than usual because of the re-run of mercurial incumbent Donald Trump. In India, the nomination of...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala Many thinkers – Gandhians and others – favoured a village-centric growth strategy. The argument is that we cannot bear the economic load of urbanization; that urban living is impersonal and disrupts human relationships; and that urbanization is synonymous with centralised governance in which...

Dr S. Saraswathi Controversies over the contempt of court law will go on irrespective of the final scene in the Supreme Court in the Prashant Bhushan case. For, the case has raised the crucial question of the need for a relook into the law, which...

Ashok Mahapatra Our history teaches us that invaders and migrants to our country came from the Northwest. Our instinct has always been to defend our North-Western borders. This was one of the main reasons why the Chinese aggression of 1962 left such a scar that...

Anita Saluja The spectacle of the Independence Day celebrations at the AICC headquarters this time was a reflection on the state of affairs in the Congress. The unfurling of the flag was performed not by Congress president Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi, but by veteran...

Melvin Durai My kids sometimes ask me if our family is rich or poor. “It depends,” I say. “Compared to many people living in the street, we are rich. Compared to Mukesh Ambani, we are poor.” My kids ask me how rich Ambani is. “It...

Kaushik Basu Neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris was my first choice among the contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination in the United States. But, when Biden, by then the party’s presumptive nominee, announced earlier this month that Senator Harris would be his vice-presidential running...

Poonam I Kaushish What is it about the Central Bureau of Investigation that has it always in the eye of the storm? A talented Hindi film actor Sushant Singh Rajput is found hanging at his residence June 14 in Mumbai. A shocked nation eulogies him,...

Jagdish Rattanani In a course on journalism that I taught years ago, one exercise I often asked was for the class to roam around Mumbai’s famous Mohammed Ali Road during the holy month of Ramadan and pick up sights, sounds, stories as the fast is...

Shivaji Sarkar The Indian economy is on life-saving policies such as incentives, special packages and lending. Even the daily wage workers and small farmers are being considered to be brought under bank-funded credit schemes. RBI hints at severe inflation risk and the Index of Industrial...