India, Bangladesh relations need reframing. Modi and Hasina can restore Bengal’s regional centrality

Indian Express front page on April 6, 1977

Loan waiver schemes — as in Uttar Pradesh — do not address the fundamental causes of agrarian distress

Designation of ‘minorities’ is well-settled in law. The current debate is unnecessary

Consolidation in banking sector is welcome. But can government unshackle governance of state-owned banks?

By its outreach to jihadist rivals of the IS, Moscow risks perpetuating the problem it faces — not solving it

Kishori Amonkar’s notes soared, refused to be tied down to any school or style

The strong and justified rebuke from African Heads of Mission is a wake-up call to all Indians

“To unify its people, the government should ban slaughter and sale of all bovine species," the spiritual head of Ajmer Dargah said.

In his sheer indifference to the prize, Bob Dylan remains an anti-establishment figure

Punjab minister’s proposal to decolonise history can be a beginning

Dispensing political counsel to AAP, Election Commission steps over a line it has itself etched and adhered to faithfully

The issue is not drink, but drunk driving. SC order will now hit state revenues and numerous jobs

An omnibus Finance Bill violates canons of constitutional propriety

Apex court’s decision to hear constitutional cases in the summer vacation is a welcome signal of resolve

India will need to find new, adroit strategies to maintain its strategic leverage in Nepal

It is a living entity, with rights. Time we recognised this in our decision-making

New national commission for backward classes must address the gaps and lags in the Mandal project

At social gatherings, our honorable MPs behave like best friends and not political opponents.

The Scottish Parliament passed a motion for holding a referendum on independence of Scotland from the UK.

Partypersons wonder at the need to experiment with newcomers when seasoned hands are at a loose end

Dozens of officers, including officers of the Ministry of Law, spend more than a hundred hours to draft the Finance Bill.

It tempers and leavens sporting antagonisms and rivalries

The Modi government is making the people the real agents of transformation