Editorial

There are repeated reports of minor robberies and frequent thefts from water logged, inundated, flash flood ravaged abandoned houses. That has added to the miseries of already crest fallen people riddled with crises of enormous dimensions.…
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As the 17th Asian Games progress India's performance at Incheon in South Korea will be under scanner. And expectations would be will India surpass its performance at 2012 London Olympics and 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. The Chinese…
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 Kay Benedict Forty-five years ago then Congress President S Nijalingappa led a revolt against Indira Gandhi, who was then Prime Minister, and expelled her from the party for  "fostering a cult of personality". That  action was culmination…
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Sitaram Yechury Prime Minister Narendra Modi has just concluded his much tom-tomed visit to Japan, which received euphoric coverage in the Indian media. He returned to receive Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Then he received Chinese…
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Harsh Mander 'There is nothing, nothing which can persuade us to return to our villages. They burned and looted our homes: We could barely save our lives, as we desperately ran with our children in our arms and just the clothes we were…
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The incursion by 600 troops of Peoples Libration Army (PLA) of China against 100 odd Indian soldiers, their movement of civilian population of nomads deep inside establishing a tented camp with support from PLA and their air maintenance by…
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The referendum on Scotland and it has decided to stay under the Union Jack. British Prime Minister David Cameron was right when he said recently in an interview, "Whatever the result, we are a democracy. You have to respect the expression…
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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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Rameshwar Singh Jamwal The ticking time bomb has finally exploded and caused destruction and damage at unprecedented scales. The flash floods caused by incessant rains in the entire state of J and K was not something unexpected, though the…
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G Parthasarathy The 21st century is often described as 'Asia's Century'. This is primarily because of the rapidly growing economies of East and Southeast Asia and the declining rates of economic growth in the US and its European allies.…
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