Opinion

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...

Melvin Durai The polls look good for Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president in America, putting him as many as 12 percentage points ahead of President Donald Trump nationally. But public surveys also looked good for Hillary Clinton in 2016; yet, Trump managed to...

Shivaji Sarkar It is slobalisation across the globe. The world has applied the brakes on the economy due to an unprecedented civilizational lockdown. India, termed as the engine of global growth, has taken a big hit and it may take quite a few years for...

Ajit Ranade The economy shrank by nearly one-fourth during the first three months of this fiscal year. Much of this was due to the harsh lockdown initiated in March. Roughly three-fourths of the economy was practically shut for a month, after which there were a...