Old Editorial
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I, the Law
The incident of a schoolteacher being stabbed by a stalker on a busy road in north Delhi Tuesday raises once again the question of the safety of women in the country. The 22-year-old woman’s murder by…
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Water Wars
The ugly incidents in the southern states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in the past few days over Cauvery river waters had been in the coming for quite some time. A warning has been in the…
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Anti Elections
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…
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If Balance is Sought
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…
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PROCREATION, PROLIFERATION
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…
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Kashmir on the boil again
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…
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GRAND(MA) CENSORS
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…
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Racial Indian
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…
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Befriend Nepal
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…
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Duty not over
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…
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Gugdi The Story
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…
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Hang Him
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…