General Peacenik?
A Pakistani general and a dove? It would usually be an oxymoron. But AfPak, BRICS all set a new context.
Into The Valley Of Life On A Hero
Every step of the way to Arunachal is weighted down by older or later colonial history. Once there, this travelogue springs into lush, joyous life.
Looking Out The Window
Except on our ties with West Asia and jehadi terror, Saran’s lucid account correctly details our national interests, with an advocacy of a multi-polar world
He Does It Without Boasting
In this collection of recent material, a master foreteller of economic phenomena dazzles with his unpacking of the complex interplay between polity and finance
Toronto Diary
Notes from Toronto International Film Festival-- a gala that serves as a tastemaker for the Academy Awards.
Mea Culpa
The best way to ensure quality in government hospitals and schools is to make the bureaucrats go there as patients and parents.
‘Busting Dark Web-Sourced Drugs Is A Big Challenge’
How IPS officer Akun Sabharwal, the drug-buster of Hyderabad, had to acquaint himself with the dark web to deal with new-age narcos.
Paved In Psychedelia
As students trip on LSD and cocaine lines lead to Tollywood, the dig on Hyderabad’s drug rackets unearths more shocking finds
Black Spider Fuzz
Meet dark net, a new drug mule hidden from the law, thriving in the virtual underground
‘The Code Gives Bureaucrats The Upper Hand’
'Social security must be an enforceable fundamental right,' says C.K. Saji Narayanan, president of the RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, on the draft code for social security.
A Universal Net To Hold All Workers
A dramatic draft moots a single social security system for all workers, formal and informal. Sceptics fume.
‘The Tech’s There, Not The Political Will’
Magsaysay award winner Bezwada Wilson, in the wake of Ghazipur landfill tragedy, talks about the civic scenario and why, as a nation, have failed to deal with sanitation in a scientific manner...
Hope Turns Valley Aglow
Rajnath’s Kashmir visit lights up people’s mood. Tenacity alone can sustain it.
They Who Belong To The Earth
The Rohingya crisis is the legacy of accursed history—going back to Partition-era politics—and the fog of violence clouds the possibility of real solutions
Kingdom Of Crooked Mirrors
Like the fabrication behind ‘Pakistan Defence Day’, Bajwa’s solemn jeremiad about their good intentions is a bare-faced lie. Only a strategic shift can correct it.
Path Yet To Take A Turn
Reactions to the Kannada editor’s killing continue to be loud. The investigations have made no headway.
“India Does Not Need Anyone To Give It An Afghan Role. It Has One By Virtue Of Its History.”
As fast-paced developments in the region recently have again brought back focus on Kashmir and India-Pakistan relations, Ambassador Satinder 'Sati' Lambah talks on what is still possible.
The Subcontinental Menu
Keralites break Onam booze record again. Why are people offering demonetised notes to Ganesha? Read all the juicy tidbits...