Editorial

Jayadeva Ranade Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, within a fortnight of his summit with Japan's Shinzo Abe and before his meeting later this month with United States President Barack Obama,…
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Difficult times are the surest test of friends and foes. The present crisis in the J and K state has clearly exposed friends, foes, distinguishing well-wishers from devilish evil wishers, the sympathisers from the exploiters, the good from…
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Rohit Dhankar The RSS has been raising the issue of Muslim men converting Hindu women to Islam through marriage in a planned manner as part of their strategy to increase Muslim population in India. They raise this hype under an emotive…
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The education sector is poised for reforms especially the right to education envisaged under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE Act) the endevour of Human Resource Ministry is to make the Act more workable and…
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Claude Arpi New Delhi is getting ready to receive Chinese President Xi Jinping on his maiden trip to India. It will, no doubt, be a significant visit, especially after Prime Minister Narendra Modi journeyed to Japan and met with old friend…
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Swapan Dasgupta Should Prime Minister Narendra Modi have gone on national TV to address schoolchildren on Guru Utsav or, if you so prefer, Teachers' Day? The answer to this seemingly innocuous but inevitably politicised question will…
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The Jammu and Kashmir floods have sparked a debate in UK's Parliament on the political and humanitarian situation. The debate organised as part of the regular backbench Business Committee application process in the House of Commons had no…
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The unfortunate unprecedented floods have caused enormous damage to life in Jammu and Kashmir. Water level though receding in Valley will need enormous efforts to put life back in gear.  Immediate follow up to such water logged conditions…
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Vinayshil Gautam The quality of public discourse has been steadily declining and needs to be arrested. The quality of enquiry, the quality of interrogation, interpretation of the data which normally precedes discussion, is poor. One is not…
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Rajesh Singh India has had more contentious issues with the US than it has with China. This ranges from diplomatic (the Devyani Khobragade matter; the almost-humiliating frisking at US airports of former Indian Presidents) to commerce…
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