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In the seven-and-a-half years that he has been Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has not answered any questions, has not made the customary statement in Lok Sabha after a State visit abroad, has not engaged in a tete-a-tete with a fellow member during a debate. The only time he took part in the proceedings was during his first year in office. When there was a strong protest from

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the grand corridor to the Kashi Viswanath temple on December 13, nostalgic memories swept over me. The earliest, from my childhood in the mid-1950s, is of an enterprising Vadyar — a Sri Vaishnava priest — who organised an annual pilgrimage tour by hiring a bus, complete with provisions, cooks and utensils, to visit the holiest of

The article in The New York Times titled 'Arrests, Beatings, and Secret Prayers: Inside the Persecution of India’s Christians' on December 22 is unfortunate and misleading.

Raising the age of marriage for girls in India from 18 to 21 is not a simple step that will bring all-encompassing goodness in terms of health and development. The claims of the government that this is in the interest of the girl child are not convincing, given that little concern has been shown about a host of other related health issues. 

The first draft proposal of the delimitation commission, shared with five MPs from Jammu and Kashmir who were associate members of the body during its meeting in New Delhi, is on expected lines, including accentuating the regional divide as it has left most of the stakeholders, with the exception of the BJP, displeased. 

The farmers’ agitation, which went on for over a year and cost the nation more than 700 lives, has ended. But not many in New Delhi have cared to judge the pulse of the farmers. One of three controversial laws, on which the agitation continued for so long, concerns the central question of minimum support price (MSP). To understand this, one must go back more than half a

The farmers’ agitation, which went on for over a year and cost the nation more than 700 lives, has ended. But not many in New Delhi have cared to judge the pulse of the farmers. One of three controversial laws, on which the agitation continued for so long, concerns the central question of minimum support price (MSP). To understand this, one must go back more than half a

Moscow’s concerns about the Quad are increasingly emerging as a matter of discussion and debate. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his visit to New Delhi in March 2021 called Quad the Asian NATO. Primarily, it signified Russia’s opposition to the creation of security blocs in the region. Moscow’s concerns about the Quad are also driven by the China factor,

Trinamool Congress’ Derek O’Brien, the former quiz master and the party’s intellectual, recently called on Congress leaders to “wake up and smell the coffee”, hoping that the strong brew would alert them that the ground is fast shifting under their feet. 

Speaking at a Constitution Day event last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held the "colonial mindset" guilty for stalling India's development journey. Among other things, he claimed that India is the only country that is in the process of achieving the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement ahead of time. Yet, in the name of the environment, he rued, various pressures are