Chief Justice T.S. Thakur’s opening remarks are enormously welcome and reassuring.
Modi government does well to resume talks with Pakistan. Now it must stay the course, make the process less vulnerable.
Here is what happened on December 7, forty years ago.
Congress’s position on the GST bill can hurt the economy and also isolate the party politically.
In a divided social milieu, ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’ is an idle fancy.
India must seize the opportunity to arrest the downward spiral in the relationship with Nepal.
When it poured, the government drowned. Chennai residents had no option but to summon their own fortitude.
Pay commission recommendations aren’t inflationary. But the fiscal deficit targets may prove unrealistic.
They shed light on a complex and changing gender and sexuality landscape.
With lessons in Hindi, Khan Academy shows the way to an undivided Digital India.
Delhi government treats the capital’s air pollution problem with the urgency it merits. India is watching.
BJP setback in local polls may point to a growth model that does not create jobs.
The International Film Festival of India appears to be losing its raison d’être.
Rural distress singes the BJP in the Gujarat local body elections. There may be a larger lesson in this for the party.
As air pollution in Delhi soars, the government cannot afford to keep looking on.
Germany should re-publish ‘Mein Kampf’. To understand better the reality that made Hitler possible.
The Anil Vij-Sangeeta Kalia spat in Haryana underlines the need to build trust.
The Monsoon fury in Chennai lays bare the crisis of governance in the city.
The most remarkable thing about the intolerance debate is that it happened in Parliament. But some cues can be salvaged.
Parliament would better celebrate Ambedkar by declaring war on unconstitutional evils like untouchability.
It is evident that the BJP and Congress don’t want a Delhi Lokpal. But the bigger question is, why are our old colleagues helping them?
Rajnath Singh’s Constitution day speech trivialised the fight for gender justice and against caste hierarchies.
In tense times, the symbolism of a Modi-Nawaz or Obama-Putin chat can help turn a corner.
Government should act on Jaitley’s criticism of Section 377, not look to the courts.


