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Forty Years Ago: July 20, 1979
Chetan Pandey was a thirty-six-year-old Indian mountaineer who lost his life on an expedition to Nanda Devi peak along with seven other mountaineers. “Mountain climbing
Jab they met – An interaction between the inner me and outer me
Spirituality, they say, is in finding the real you, hiding within your being. I, too, in most of my writings focus on finding the unknown, so that the layers of deception
Green shoots of economic growth
Without factoring in agriculture, the vision of a $5-trillion economy will remain a distant dream
The NEP and liberal arts education
The draft’s endorsement of critical thinking would have gained credibility if it had promoted liberal values
Unpresidential slant: on Donald Trump's racist tweets
Trump’s racist tweets risk damaging the fabric of American society further
Inclusion over exclusion: on Assam NRC
Fears of a vocal section should not override the rights of NRC claimants to due process
State power needs to be balanced with civil liberties and individual rights
The contribution of public sector banks (PSBs) in nation development in the last 50 years has been immense, particularly in the areas of financial inc
Uniform yardstick needed for farm credit
‘Scale of finance’, a measure of loans permissible per acre per crop, varies across districts, causing confusion. It must be harmonised
Few jobs, made worse by poor working conditions
Unlike in China, basic rights such as an employment contract are not enforced in India. Legal entitlements, too, are not enforced
Does the anti-defection law serve any purpose?
The Supreme Court has held that it is the Speaker’s discretion to decide on the resignations of the 15 dissident MLAs belonging to the Congress-Janata
Recently Laddu Pinto met me for a counselling session. He was under severe stress, heartbroken and dejected. Life had shown him a series of unhappy incidents. Professiona
CBSE paper leakThe article, ‘CBSE needs to redeem itself, right now’ by Raghuvir Srinivasan(March 30), makes an important pointwith thousands of st
If civic authorities have too much else to do, then it might be best if the job is turned over to the ASI
Bank nationalization in 1969 showed why politics is all-important
Fifty years ago, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced that 14 large private banks would be nationalized. There was a successful legal challenge against the decision but
Saregama Carvaan Go Review: A Dose of Nostalgia on the Go
Saregama Carvaan Go is a portable version of the company’s popular Carvaan speaker, with 3,000 preloaded songs on it.
Opinion | Reliance Jio’s surge
Reliance Jio has vaulted past Bharti Airtel to become the country’s second-largest mobile telephone company by user base
Opinion | Is it possible to hack the brain to make us immortal gods?
The brain-machine interface is a response to billionaire concerns. It attempts to mechanize human frailty and humanize machine villainy
The mission Modi could have undertaken
By visiting Tehran as a neutral intermediary, the Prime Minister could have reassured Iranians that India is a long-term friend which is keen to see the
And why politics, sanskriti and some good ol’ blame game’s never far from the pitch
Seeta aur Geeta 2.0 ft. brooms and horses
A plotline good enough to feature two of Bollywood’s superwomen – Hema Malini and Kangana Ranaut
The draft NEP has a gender strategy, but it's an incomplete one
While this is the draft of the NEP and thus open to modifications, it is hoped that the final text of the policy supports its promise of equity and gender equality in edu
Another election year in Delhi and another move to regularise unauthorized colonies and offer ownership rights to their residents has begun. In 2008 and 2013 Congress had
After four TDP MPs switched to BJP in the Rajya Sabha and the sole INLD MP there did likewise, it was the turn of SP’s Neeraj Shekhar to turn saffron. Except, in his ca
Dhoni’s future: It’s time to put in place a transition plan
There has been much speculation about MS Dhoni’s future with the Indian cricket team following the just concluded World Cup. Dhoni’s performance in the tournament dre
This is the third wave that has left Punjab for foreign shores. The first time around it was to the UK and the USA where sometimes one encountered countrymen or women wor
Typewriter Review: Is Sujoy Ghosh’s Netflix Horror Series India’s Stranger Things?
Typewriter, the latest Netflix web series from India, follows a bunch of kids as they try to capture a ghost in a haunted house in small-town Goa. Sujoy Ghosh is the dire
Power plays and power ploys: The lighter side of lights out
Even as in a reprise of the 1977 blackout, large parts of New York City were plunged into gloom thanks to a massive electricity outrage last week, causing the Big Apple t
Netflix, welcome to ratings hell
With last quarter’s weak showing, the video-streaming service gets to experience what the media giants went through
It was 3 a.m. of 8 th June 2019 and my family was excitedly waiting for our flight to take off. But my heart had already taken off on its customary flight back to the...
India is often described as the land of diversity, colors, rich culture, ancient history, engineers, doctors and so on. We as Indians have progressed in and acknowledged
How culture influences children’s development
We are civilized people who live in a cultured society. The word culture represents a certain predisposition in the way we conduct ourselves personally, professionally, a
Opinion| The future of dissent
Since ubiquitous surveillance can easily become the new normal, it will not be surprising that an entire generation might once again have to find a new vocabulary of diss
These industry captains deserve to be heard
Captains of Industry generally swim with the tide, and are not known to make jarring critical comments for fear of seeing a negative impact on their business activities.
When the Kerala High Court in 2017 held that politics has no place in academic institutions, politicians of all stripes opposed it.
APAC firms must transform cybersecurity approach
With the number of data breaches escalating and threat landscape fast evolving, Asia-Pacific enterprises will have to think outside the box and transform their cybersecur
NRC quagmire: The mess that is Assam’s NRC exercise should warn against simplistic solutions
A fortnight ahead of the deadline to publish the final version of Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC), both the Centre and state government have asked Supreme C
In a recent column Raghuram Rajan, the former governor of the Reserve Bank of India made the case for why the Budget decision to issue foreign currency debt has no real b
‘Now I am in a strong position … now they will really experience what is a Goenkarponn government’
Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant has been a busy man, with dramatic political developments in the state. Within four months of his taking charge, there have been two larg
The rainy season and nature’s rhythm
By Aruna Jethwani “Experience the spirit of the season,” said my beloved master. We were sitting under the large Banyan tree – with its silvery roots embracing the
Unto the breach: The eight amendments proposed to Bankruptcy Code will plug some loopholes
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), which was enacted in May 2016, is a critical link in a chain of steps initiated since 1991 to transition India to a market econo
Singular democracy: As more and more defectors join BJP, India could become a one-party polity
The Big Boss and his Shah-en-Shah mulling over the spate of defections from other parties to join BJP. Big Boss: People are saying that what’s happening poses a threat
