Opinion

Prof SN Misra I have had the rare privilege of working with four defence ministers --beginning with Mulayam Singh Yadav during 1996-98, and later with George Fernandes for 1998-2004, Pranab Mukherjee during 2004-06 and AK Antony for 2006-2014. Each of these had their own unique...

Ganesh Devy The contempt of court case against the Tamil actor Suriya was fortunately and wisely dropped by the Madras High Court. This, and the case of contempt against activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan, raise serious concerns about the judiciary’s notions of its self-image. One wonders...

Shivaji Sarkar Ambition is good. The $5 trillion economy is a nice goal, but the path chosen has to match the goal. Since the April-June quarter of 2019, the economy has been nose-diving. The industry has continuously been bringing to notice the demand plunge. Belated...

Saeed Naqvi There have been many, but let me cite just two reactions from the family to Justices DY Chandrachud, Indu Malhotra and KM Joseph’s utterances restraining Sudarshan TV from telecasting its ‘UPSC Jihad’ show. A relative mailed a couplet comprehensive in its simplicity: “Door...

Bertrand Badré and Aurélie Jean Trust will be key to the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and recession. Yet over the past ten years, people's trust in governments, public and private institutions, and one another has declined across many of the advanced economies. As is...

Seth Berkley, Richard Hatchett, and Soumya Swaminathan Almost in its tenth month, the Covid-19 pandemic is still wreaking havoc on economies and lives around the world. But while the end of the crisis seems as far away as ever, the fact is that we are...

Dr D K Giri Defence Minister Rajnath Singh spoke in Parliament this Tuesday on the border face-off with China. Rajnath Singh is an old hand in governance, deeply experienced and extremely articulate. Yet, his statement to Parliament was esoteric, evasive and laconic. Disappointing, that he...

Dr S Saraswathi ‘The Pros and Cons of Media Trial’ was the topic for the first Ram Jethmalani Memorial Lecture organised in Delhi the other day, in which renowned lawyers participated. At a time when media activism is going strong, it has become necessary to...

Akira Kawamoto Yoshihide Suga has been selected as the new prime minister of Japan. He will replace Shinzo Abe, who announced his resignation last month for health reasons after almost eight years in office. Japanese and international observers are now asking whether the Abe government’s...

Vijay Darda  All of you must have read about the dreaded Kalia Nag (serpent) in our mythology. The lake in which it lived had become so poisonous that even the birds and animals passing over it used to die. Even the river Yamuna had become...