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Recent utterances of Prime Minister Damodardass Modi have set the ball rolling in the discussion on the issue of simultaneous elections in India. The proposal to hold all Assemblies and Lok Sabha (Parliamentary) elections across the…

The Supreme Court judgement this past week restoring land taken over by the West Bengal Government in Singur in 2006 to the displaced farmers — some 1,000 acres — is something to ponder over. It is…

The RSS leadership is not known to speak immense sense at all times.There are times when they go overboard in their zealousness to pushwhat they perceive are religious causes. Impression goes around, and rightly so, that…

Kashmir is again on the boil, and there is an urgent need to set things right. Lack of a credible leadership in the Valley in recent times has only added to the troubles caused mainly by…

Laws are made for the people and no civilized society can function without its own sets of laws and regulations. Just like the Supreme Court, High Courts, SEBI, TRAI and so many other bodies that function…

Truth be told, racism is now at its highest in India. It might not show up openly in most situations, but that does not mean this country is above feelings of race – or caste or…

As India battles its summer heat, the chill in its relations with neighbouring Nepal is intensifying. So much so, it seems nearing a breaking point. The KP Sharma Oli government has abruptly cancelled the Nepal President’s…

In a sense, Venezuela, a petroleum producing and exporting country, has shown the way. Its president, Nicolas Maduro, has marked May Day this time with a 30 per cent increase in minimum wages. This was his…

Gugdi is a small sleepy village close to the India-Pakistan border. No one in this country would have ever heard of the existence of this place, located in Barmer district of Rajasthan, had it not been…

In less than a month, the lone juvenile convict in the 16 December 2012 Delhi gang rape case that shook the nation’s collective conscience, is set to walk free. This has prompted the victim’s parents to…

Nepal was, through ages, a dependable ally for India. Proximity, a common religion, similarities in culture, and mutually beneficial engagements between people as also the Royal family and the Indian government saw the relations in top…

The Bihar election results have opened many a new page in the Indian political dictionary. The ‘trolls’ and ’bhakts’ of Damodardass and BJP would certainly be demoralized and disheartened after the events of 8 November 2015.…