In the run-up to an election opposed by the main players, Centre needs to clear the air about the peace deal

Economic Survey does well to include data on India’s ‘unwanted’ daughters. It helps make discrimination visible

Universities cannot be made world-class if the desire doesn’t come from within

Indian cricket team is finally coming into its own on foreign fields

To remember Mahatma Gandhi is to reflect on the meanings of home and dispossession

Sedition law has been misused by over-zealous agencies. That’s no reason to scrap it

Sheikh Abdullah, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, called for a dialogue between the Centre and the states to help them acquire more powers.

The coming year may be better for growth, but there are risks too — which the Economic Survey rightly identifies

Killing of civilians in Shopian threatens to undo hard-won gains, puts question mark over panchayat polls

Roger Federer's greatness lies not in smothering the competition, but in upping the game

Delhi Declaration’s mention of cross-border terror is a good beginning. But it won’t be enough to dent Pakistan’s impunity

The protests against ‘Padmaavat’ draw on a deep misogyny

After four years of falling short, the BJP knows that it cannot go back to the larger, non-urban electorate with economic delivery as its election plank. For this section, ‘achhe din’ still remains a mirage and any mention of it may actually rile sentiments.

Mohan Bhagwat’s remark draws attention to RSS-BJP discomfort with caste politics. And to its unfulfilled possibilities

Foreign minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee envisioned a larger Asian community extending from Iran to the Indo-China peninsula permitting an uninterrupted interchange of commerce, economic and cultural cooperation and ideas.

If industries/businesses in the organised sector that employed 20 or more persons can generate 55 lakh new jobs in a year that qualified for enrolment under the EPFO, then we can declare that India has, truly and comprehensively, slain the demon of unemployment!

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not meet Rahul or Sonia Gandhi during his recent trip to India although it is customary in diplomacy for visiting heads of states to also speak to the leader of Opposition.

There is one name which is always particularly intriguing and indeed could have changed the course of political history had he got his chance — Jyoti Basu.

It is an atmosphere so infused with latent menace and terror that it is hard to believe that the Prime Minister actually came to Davos last week to tell foreign investors that they were welcome to India.

Awards like Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri had been abolished by the Janata government in keeping with the spirit of the constitutional provision on titles and awards

Zia Mohyeddin evokes classicism in an environment of vulgar exaggeration

After recapitalisation, government should hasten on a linked reform: Improving governance standards in PSBs

Deaths in Maharashtra have bared issues that government must address in the Pesticides Management Bill

It is a political project, a metaphor for our times, and also a multiplying meme