Opinion

V. Mohan Rao The change in the name of the Department of Disability Affairs to the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities soon after the NDA assumed power was...

Aakar Patel I am writing this from Istanbul, where I am attending a terrorism trial in court as an observer. The trial is that of the chair and director of...

Leonid Ragozin There is suddenly too much entropy in the Russian political universe. At least some people are acting as if there are no adults in the house. Political campaigns...

  Marwan Bishara Israel and Saudi Arabia have been the hot subject of speculation and gossip in recent weeks. Not a day goes by without us hearing about their latest...

  Shiv Visvanathan Years ago Rabindranath Tagore, in a quietly reflective moment, said “every child is a sign that God is not yet tired of man”. One wonders what the...

  ABHIJIT BHATTACHARYYA I am neither on value judgment per se nor on appraisal or the possible repercussions on political logic, or lack of it, on the broader spectrum of...

  Lloyd Russell Moyle A decade ago, the military government in Myanmar cracked down on peaceful protests for economic and political reform, killing an estimated 100 monks and triggering a...

Lloyd Russell Moyle A decade ago, the military government in Myanmar cracked down on peaceful protests for economic and political reform, killing an estimated 100 monks and triggering a wave...

Neena Gopal With the US Congress passing a $700 billion defence budget for 2018 that makes some $350 million available to Pakistan, contingent on whether it takes demonstrable steps towards...

The socio economic growth is not synonymous to socio economic development Shahid Majeed Mir Societies thrive on certain well defined attributes which bring stability to the prescribed social order.  The...