Opinion

  Sara Kayyali In a no man’s land along the Syria-Jordan border, an estimated 55,000 Syrians escaped the horrors of Syria’s conflict only to languish, abandoned in the desert as...

Larry Beinhart In the print edition of the New York Times Magazine, there’s an ad. It features a fresh-faced young woman smiling straight into the camera, looking totally exploitable. She’s...

Aakar Patel The ruling party for 22 years, the Bharatiya Janata Party, says it is about development. This is apparently a copyrighted word and development is something only the BJP...

Ajaz Ashraf It is election season in the Indian state of Gujarat. Its residents will vote to elect their state assembly on December 9 and 14. The vote has thrown...

  Tawakkol Karman Nobody argues any more about what is happening in Myanmar. The United Nations, international human rights organisations and world capitals all agree that the war being waged...

Sarita Barara With her bundle of joy, a tiny baby girl in her lap, Sunita Sandra’s happiness was writ large on her beaming face. The baby girl was born in...

Deepak Razdan The three years of Modi Government have virtually seen revolutionary changes in the labour and employment scenario. Laws and schemes have undergone basic changes benefiting the entire working...

Rabia Mehmood In a depressing turn of events, the government of Pakistan surrendered to hardliners on Monday morning and accepted their demands for the resignation of the country’s law minister...

Mohan Guruswamy The Indian Air Force was hoping for a minimum of 80 Dassault Rafale fighters, but the Narendra Modi government has kept the initial order down to 36 fighters...

K V Venkatasubramanian India has made remarkable progress in healthcare; the nation is much healthier today. Several diseases including polio, smallpox and guinea worm have been eradicated successfully. Besides, there...