Opinion

Shivaji Sarkar Rising food prices are adding to the woes of post-corona lockdown recovery. Some states are in quandary whether to allow full opening or continue with half-shut half-open measures. This is adding to supply problems creating artificial shortage. This is a double whammy. Recession...

Saeed Naqvi The manner of Vikas Dubey’s murder (encounter) would cause Joey the child in awe of Shane played by Alan Ladd to scream: “that’s not fair – I hate you.” A knee-jerk response to the Dubey saga would lead us nowhere without picking up...

Dr. S.N. Misra & Sanjaya Kumar Ghadai In 1975, the national emergency ironically coincided with the launching of the biggest nutritional programme, the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), to mitigate undernourishment amongst children and expecting and lactating mothers, and achieving socio, economic and distributive justice...

Dr D K Giri The disengagement in Ladakh has begun. China is stepping back from three contentious areas; Galwan, Hot Springs and Gogra. Everyone at home and abroad is cautioning New Delhi to carefully monitor the withdrawal; never to take the Chinese on their word,...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is printing notes and the government is borrowing that money to meet the shortfall in its revenues due to the pandemic. While this could be a justifiable response to the present crisis, there is more to it....

S Saraswathi A survey conducted by the Tamil Nadu Women’s Collective in 62 villages in 18 districts in the state found that 81 per cent of families reported some kind of domestic violence during the lockdown period. Of these families, 25 per cent were also...

Devesh Kapur The standoff between Chinese and Indian forces along the disputed Himalayan border resulted in the first troop casualties there in decades, with some Indian soldiers killed in particularly brutal fashion. Moreover, the intensity of China's multiple cross-border incursions suggests approval from the highest...

Kamal Baruah Over the centuries, people have learnt to live with rivers. Once upon a time, Huang-he was China’s sorrow. The river killed millions of people since 2nd Century BC from catastrophic floods. In 1955, China successfully controlled the Huang-he by building overflow channels and...

Richard K. Sherwin Recent challenges to democratic institutions and processes in the United States have raised fundamental political and legal questions to which all liberal democracies must have convincing answers. When should military leaders refuse to follow presidential orders that they believe are unconstitutional? At...

Melvin Durai Carl Reiner, a great American comedian, recently passed away at the age of 98. What struck me the most, while reflecting on his life, was how active and productive he continued to be even in his 90s. He created a Twitter account in...