2025: External challenges, Internal Solutions

The kind of challenges we face as...

Haryana’s MSP promise will be unmet without Centre’s nod

Chandigarh: The Haryana government’s recent decision giving...

India-Afghanistan growing ties raise concerns in Pakistan

Afghan staffer survives assassination attempt, amid growing...

Virendra Kapoor

India vs Bharat: Urban snobs against rural talent

Thanks to a deep-rooted bias, people from rural background are denied their due in almost all walks of life. In particular, the English-speaking ruling...

Maya’s objective is to cover corruption, silence critics

MONEY, MONEY, MONEYThere can be no place for crudity in public life. Given the socio-economic background of most politicians, it is, however, not uncommon...

Maya’s objective is to cover corruption, silence critics

MONEY, MONEY, MONEYThere can be no place for crudity in public life. Given the socio-economic background of most politicians, it is, however, not uncommon...

Maya’s objective is to cover corruption, silence critics

MONEY, MONEY, MONEYThere can be no place for crudity in public life. Given the socio-economic background of most politicians, it is, however, not uncommon...

Bring Kashmiri Muslims to the mainstream

BEGIN WITH KASHMIRThe late Balraj Madhok, at the time president of the Jana Sangh, the previous avatar of the BJP, had kicked up quite...

Bring Kashmiri Muslims to the mainstream

BEGIN WITH KASHMIRThe late Balraj Madhok, at the time president of the Jana Sangh, the previous avatar of the BJP, had kicked up quite...

Bring Kashmiri Muslims to the mainstream

BEGIN WITH KASHMIRThe late Balraj Madhok, at the time president of the Jana Sangh, the previous avatar of the BJP, had kicked up quite...

Do not rush to write off Smriti Irani

SHE IS HERE TO STAYDespite her transfer from the rather high-profile HRD to textiles, Smriti Irani is set to remain an important member of...

Do not rush to write off Smriti Irani

SHE IS HERE TO STAYDespite her transfer from the rather high-profile HRD to textiles, Smriti Irani is set to remain an important member of...

Do not rush to write off Smriti Irani

SHE IS HERE TO STAYDespite her transfer from the rather high-profile HRD to textiles, Smriti Irani is set to remain an important member of...

Modi speaks the pro-poor language of Indira

 PARTY OF THE POOR? Has the BJP stolen the Congress’ clothes and become a party of the poor, for the poor? It would seem so...

Modi speaks the pro-poor language of Indira

 PARTY OF THE POOR? Has the BJP stolen the Congress’ clothes and become a party of the poor, for the poor? It would seem so...

Modi speaks the pro-poor language of Indira

 PARTY OF THE POOR? Has the BJP stolen the Congress’ clothes and become a party of the poor, for the poor? It would seem so...

BJP has a Swamy problem on its hands

GIVE UP PETTY FIGHTSSubramanian Swamy. Yes, Subramanian Swamy. What do you do about him? What can the BJP, or, for that matter, anyone else...

BJP has a Swamy problem on its hands

GIVE UP PETTY FIGHTSSubramanian Swamy. Yes, Subramanian Swamy. What do you do about him? What can the BJP, or, for that matter, anyone else...

BJP has a Swamy problem on its hands

GIVE UP PETTY FIGHTSSubramanian Swamy. Yes, Subramanian Swamy. What do you do about him? What can the BJP, or, for that matter, anyone else...

Rebuffs bring the Gandhis to terra firma

MUCH CHASTENEDThe Congress party at long last might be getting its act together. Gone is Rahul Gandhi’s swagger and insouciance. Instead, even he, the...

Rebuffs bring the Gandhis to terra firma

MUCH CHASTENEDThe Congress party at long last might be getting its act together. Gone is Rahul Gandhi’s swagger and insouciance. Instead, even he, the...

Rebuffs bring the Gandhis to terra firma

MUCH CHASTENEDThe Congress party at long last might be getting its act together. Gone is Rahul Gandhi’s swagger and insouciance. Instead, even he, the...

Politics around land has always been a problem

BENDING THE RULESPolitics around land has always been problematic, especially in post-Independence India. Maharashtra’s Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse was plain unlucky when his get-rich-quick...

Politics around land has always been a problem

BENDING THE RULESPolitics around land has always been problematic, especially in post-Independence India. Maharashtra’s Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse was plain unlucky when his get-rich-quick...

Politics around land has always been a problem

BENDING THE RULESPolitics around land has always been problematic, especially in post-Independence India. Maharashtra’s Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse was plain unlucky when his get-rich-quick...

Congress defends private citizen Vadra publicly

INDEFENSIBLELet us begin with a simple question. If, as the Congress boss Sonia Gandhi insists that Robert Vadra is a private citizen, then why...

Congress defends private citizen Vadra publicly

INDEFENSIBLELet us begin with a simple question. If, as the Congress boss Sonia Gandhi insists that Robert Vadra is a private citizen, then why...

Congress defends private citizen Vadra publicly

INDEFENSIBLELet us begin with a simple question. If, as the Congress boss Sonia Gandhi insists that Robert Vadra is a private citizen, then why...

AAP is all pretension and hypocrisy

DOUBLE STANDARDSIt is hard to remain uncorrupt in politics. Despite claims of honesty by Arvind Kejriwal and other megaphones of the Aam Aadmi Party,...

AAP is all pretension and hypocrisy

DOUBLE STANDARDSIt is hard to remain uncorrupt in politics. Despite claims of honesty by Arvind Kejriwal and other megaphones of the Aam Aadmi Party,...

AAP is all pretension and hypocrisy

DOUBLE STANDARDSIt is hard to remain uncorrupt in politics. Despite claims of honesty by Arvind Kejriwal and other megaphones of the Aam Aadmi Party,...

Decline and fall of Congress under clueless Rahul

 ANOTHER CAREER?The Narendra Modi government has good reason to feel relieved at Thursday’s outcome. Following the stunning rejection of the Congress, and the no...

Decline and fall of Congress under clueless Rahul

 ANOTHER CAREER?The Narendra Modi government has good reason to feel relieved at Thursday’s outcome. Following the stunning rejection of the Congress, and the no...

Decline and fall of Congress under clueless Rahul

 ANOTHER CAREER?The Narendra Modi government has good reason to feel relieved at Thursday’s outcome. Following the stunning rejection of the Congress, and the no...

Agusta probe may go Bofors way

CONCRETE EVIDENCE NEEDEDDespite the Italian court convicting the bribe-givers in the Augusta-Westland deal there is hardly any progress at the Indian end to track...

Agusta probe may go Bofors way

CONCRETE EVIDENCE NEEDEDDespite the Italian court convicting the bribe-givers in the Augusta-Westland deal there is hardly any progress at the Indian end to track...

Agusta probe may go Bofors way

CONCRETE EVIDENCE NEEDEDDespite the Italian court convicting the bribe-givers in the Augusta-Westland deal there is hardly any progress at the Indian end to track...

CAG disclaimer in chopper scam unwarranted

SHASHI KANT SHARMA MUST RESIGNA curious fact which seemed to have escaped attention in the on-going slugfest over the defence kickbacks scam is the...

CAG disclaimer in chopper scam unwarranted

SHASHI KANT SHARMA MUST RESIGNA curious fact which seemed to have escaped attention in the on-going slugfest over the defence kickbacks scam is the...

CAG disclaimer in chopper scam unwarranted

SHASHI KANT SHARMA MUST RESIGNA curious fact which seemed to have escaped attention in the on-going slugfest over the defence kickbacks scam is the...

Italians have let down Sonia Gandhi

 Being DefensiveNow, this is unfair. Accusing Sonia Gandhi of receiving kickbacks from Augusta Westland when all of Rs 360 crore paid in bribes came...

Italians have let down Sonia Gandhi

 Being DefensiveNow, this is unfair. Accusing Sonia Gandhi of receiving kickbacks from Augusta Westland when all of Rs 360 crore paid in bribes came...

Italians have let down Sonia Gandhi

 Being DefensiveNow, this is unfair. Accusing Sonia Gandhi of receiving kickbacks from Augusta Westland when all of Rs 360 crore paid in bribes came...

Why did Vadra say what he did and why now?

‘ENHANCED’ LIFEWhat was the provocation for Robert Vadra to give an interview to a private media outlet? And why now? How do you explain...

Why did Vadra say what he did and why now?

‘ENHANCED’ LIFEWhat was the provocation for Robert Vadra to give an interview to a private media outlet? And why now? How do you explain...

Why did Vadra say what he did and why now?

‘ENHANCED’ LIFEWhat was the provocation for Robert Vadra to give an interview to a private media outlet? And why now? How do you explain...

PILs cannot be used to ban IPL matches

MATTER OF WATERWhether or not the BCCI follows the Bombay High Court order and shifts IPL matches out of Maharashtra in May or decides...

PILs cannot be used to ban IPL matches

MATTER OF WATERWhether or not the BCCI follows the Bombay High Court order and shifts IPL matches out of Maharashtra in May or decides...

PILs cannot be used to ban IPL matches

MATTER OF WATERWhether or not the BCCI follows the Bombay High Court order and shifts IPL matches out of Maharashtra in May or decides...

NIT trouble: Where have all the secularists gone?

 TAME ANTI-INDIA ELEMENTSWhere have all the secularists gone! Even if you grant that Kashmiri students of the Srinagar-based National Institute of Technology (NIT) had...

NIT trouble: Where have all the secularists gone?

 TAME ANTI-INDIA ELEMENTSWhere have all the secularists gone! Even if you grant that Kashmiri students of the Srinagar-based National Institute of Technology (NIT) had...

NIT trouble: Where have all the secularists gone?

 TAME ANTI-INDIA ELEMENTSWhere have all the secularists gone! Even if you grant that Kashmiri students of the Srinagar-based National Institute of Technology (NIT) had...

Congress in disarray, lurches right and left

First, the self-avowedly secular Congress took the lead in expelling a member of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen from the Maharashtra Assembly because he...

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