Pragmatic in London: on Brexit The Labour Party’s surprise announcement that Britain should continue in the European single market, a...

Après le déluge: on the Mumbai floods The return of the deluge to Mumbai and the paralysis suffered by the city bring up the question...

Two medals strong Sindhu, Saina continue Indian badminton’s dream run It was an epic final at badminton’s biggest stage, and it sto...

Rallying together A viable alternative must be found to the BJP Not all political alliances increase the winning chances of the con...

Nandyal for Naidu Andhra CM should now focus on governance In the absence of a driving issue, by-elections tend to favour ruling pa...

Agreeing to disagree Ending the Doklam stand-off The separate announcements by India and China that the Doklam military stand-off h...

That old spark Nepal Prime Minister’s visit brings bilateral hope At a time when the  Doklam stand-off had focussed attention on Hi...

Anarchy in Panchkula Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's conviction Nothing shows up the ineptness of the state more than unpreparedness ...

Lessons not learnt: On swine flu The number of influenza A (H1N1) virus cases and deaths reported from across India this year has alr...

Target Section 377: On decriminalising gay sex Same-gender sex remains a crime in the country due to a flagrant judicial mistake comm...

Caste and class On OBC sub-categorisation There are inequalities and then there are inequalities within unequal entities. That rese...

Citizen vs State On right to privacy verdict In a rare unanimous verdict pronounced by nine judges, the Supreme Court has ruled tha...

And the war goes on On Trump’s South Asia policy U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to deepen the country’s military engagement...

Lessons from a fiasco On NEET and T.N. medical admissions It is a matter of immense relief that the prolonged uncertainty over the med...

Fusion and fission: On AIADMK merger New fault lines have formed in the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu. When ...

Undoing injustice: On instant triple talaq verdict By declaring the discriminatory  practice of instant triple talaq as unconstitutio...

Derailed priorities On Utkal Express derailment Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu took several Rail Bhawan mandarins to task within hours...

Prison and privilege On favourable exemptions to Sasikala in jail It is not uncommon for some influential prisoners to get concessi...

Missing investors: on Sahara case It has been about five years since the Supreme Court ordered the Sahara Group, led by Subrata Roy, ...

Separate ways: on JD(U) split On the credit side of his long political ledger, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has been able to car...