editorial artical

Kushan Mitra The Chinese President's visit to New Delhi might have fallen short of tangible benefits, but it did bestow the capital with the mother of all traffic jams. Commuters who usually take an already long 90-100 minutes were taking…
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    Sandhya Jain Those cheering the revival of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's fortunes in the recent by-election, must concede that, if this is the defeat of the BJP's 'Love Jihad', it is equally the victory of the 'boys will be boys'…
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Rats abandon sinking ships, while leaders of men stay with their teams closely in times of crisis sharing their pains, difficulties to give solace, encouragement and provide guidance, help and muster remedies to overcome crisis.  The trend…
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Sanjay-Swami and Mamta Phogat Synthetic polymers in the form of crystals or tiny beads available under several trade names such as super absorbent polymers, root watering crystals, drought crystals and crystal soil are collectively known…
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Brig Anil Gupta The three pillars of any successful management of disaster are the three 'R's, ie, Rescue, Relief and Rehabilitation. Recently the Jammu and Kashmir State has been struck by a massive disaster resulting into huge losses of…
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Rakesh Journalist The natural disaster in the kind of rainy weather in September (4th to 8th ) in Jammu and Kashmir had evidently gestured once more about this fact of life that natural disaster is quite worse than the man made . By…
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Farrukh Dhondy As this columnist predicted on19th  September, 2014, the fatal day when the results of the Scottish independence referendum were announced, this partition of the United Kingdom would lead to ultimate instability and…
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Kuldip Nayar 'I did my duty' is the defence of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the charge that he was aware of corruption taking place in the 2G spectrum and sale of coal mines and did not do anything to stop the corrupt deals…
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Samar Halarnkar Many Kashmiris, Hindu and Muslim, know the story of  Jalodbhava (he who is borne on water), a demon who once terrorised the people of Satisar, a great lake of unified legend, which supposedly once sprawled across what is…
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra Now that the dust has settled on India's supposed obstruction of a new trade deal at the World Trade Organisation, far greater clarity has emerged on why India adopted the position it did. If anything, the facts on the…
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