‘This is the only election where the central focus isn’t inflation (price rise)’, Prime Minister thumped in his victory speech after the 2019 election triumph. Factually, it was true and urban consumers could not be more elated. It is ironic that during the same years, producers of the agriculture sector…

Compassion and tolerance are truly the most endangered traits of the world we are living in. In these circumstances, if those traits are to be saved, that could be done only by the right-wing associations with their essence and meaning changed or narrowed down. We are living in an era…

‘I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability’. Those were one of the prominent posters that were flashing on the corridors of the US Supreme Court on Friday. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the…

Certainly, we are in a period of uncertainty. No crisis in modern human history has affected such a vast amount of human populace and has inflicted huge losses on humanity than this COVID-19 pandemic. We are not entirely sure of the virus. What is its source? How often it mutates…

The year 2020 is beating us in the back for every good thing that we dreamt of it. Long days and nights, loss of lives and livelihoods, poverty and starvation, and global recession. The whole world is fighting the virus by using all the available resources. Governments around the world…

When we sit around and talk over tea with friends, the topic that would never have missed is the issue of CAA, and NPR. …

INTRODUCTION: Around the start of the last decade, the world was humming with hope. The world was recovering from the financial crisis, faster than expected. There were a series of anti-establishment protests in the Islamic world (popularly known as Arab Spring) against authoritarian and oppressive regimes. Countries around the world…

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA. These are the opening words of our constitution. Who are these people? Ideally, that should have been the first chapter of the constitution. But our constitutional forefathers were wise and visionaries. In the first chapter, they specified the territory of India. Then, in the second…

Just My Thoughts Trapped inside a bore well, a two-year-old boy battled for air and energy to gather his strength in the hinterlands of Tamil Nadu last week. It is hard to express the pain and suffering that the little child underwent inside that dark underworld. …