Editorial

Esmeralda Upton’s outburst against some Indian women in Plano, Texas this past week is an indication of changing attitudes towards people from this subcontinent living in the US. While Esmeralda, a Mexican American, is herself an…

Celebrating the 75th year of Independence and naming it Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and later the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign has been treated as a historic moment in the present times. We shall refrain from mentioning…

This round seems to have gone in favor of Nitish Kumar in Bihar. The Kurmi leader is known for his ability to change sides as and when winds of impending change blows across the Northern Indian…

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and the Opposition are busy trading charges against each other and scoring political brownie points in Parliament over the soaring prices and rising inflation. But, a six-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh…

Bundelkhand, in Jalaun of Uttar Pradesh, a highly impoverished area at the border of UP and Madhya Pradesh, had the privilege of seeing the Prime Minister of India as the inaugurator of the 296 km long…

The developments in Sri Lanka should act as an eye opener for all democracies across the world. After the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and a chain of freedom struggles by natives against foreign rulers, human…

The hurriedly called Quad meeting late last week has expressed concern over the possibility of a déjà vu of the Russian type invasion of Ukraine in the Indo-Pacific region too. This is not simply an attempt…

Russia’s Putin put his nuclear forces on alert when the war in Ukraine reached the fourth day, surprising everyone who thought the outcome of the invasion was but obvious. The non capitulation of the Ukranian leader…

It is unfortunate that Prime Minister Narendra Modi equated the Samajwadi Party’s poll symbol – the bicycle – with those used to plant bombs by terrorists in Ahmedabad. The reference to Ahmedabad holds special significance at…

“What’s in a name?” said the Bard to underline the importance of the intrinsic qualities of a man rather than his family position or social rank. But, when it comes to the name of a place…

The Prime Minister’s Independence Day speech delivered from the ramparts of the Red Fort has turned out to be an exercise in hyperbole rather than a blueprint for what his government proposes to do to tackle…

The spectacle of hundreds of thousands of people congregating at Har Ki Pauri Ghat in Haridwar, Uttarakhand on the occasion of the ongoing Mahakumbh Mela at a time when the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic is…