The sad truth is that India’s biggest failures in 70 years of glorious independence have been in the area of human resource development.

At a meeting on August 12 and in his Independence Day address, according to some BJP leaders, Modi has opened the door to a brave new world! Has he? I doubt if the PM had weighed the consequences of his words

The decade of 1977-1986 had few compensations. Strife in Punjab, the assassination of a prime minister, the slaughter in Delhi, plus Bofors.

The Indian armed forces have been nurtured by successive generations of leadership and based on a solid foundation of nationalism and the three pillars of being apolitical, secular and professional.

As we reflect upon our glorious past, we also need to chalk out a roadmap for the future and strive to realise the dream of Mahatma Gandhi — that of ushering in Ram Rajya, where there is no discrimination.

Her supporters in Manipur and elsewhere should thank Irom Sharmila for her extraordinary sacrifice and move on with their campaign against AFSPA without her iconic presence.

Balochistan and Kashmir have become key strategic points in Sino-Pak ties, upsetting India’s traditional engagement with the two countries.

The statesmanship that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown by calling an all-party meeting on Kashmir and taking some important decisions for solving the problems of Kashmir is laudable.

Baloch nationalists have always wished to be treated as an entity separate from Pakistan. Prime Minister Modi’s statements have granted us that recognition.

Prime Minister’s I-Day speech was a spectacle that didn’t hold together.

When we speak of freedom or azadi, it brings to mind a very different idea of India.

The article slams those jihadi leaders who send their children to study in big cities, but push the children of poor Muslims to jihad and are “never shy of betraying their own community”.

Only when Parliament and politics are no longer dominated by one single political party, will India become a country where all points of view will once again be freely expressed, freely heard.

Zafrullah Khan’s role in Pakistan’s history is not recognised for he belonged to a community deemed apostate.

Today’s leadership thinks differently. Transformation, not merely reform, is on its agenda.

Replacing PDS with cash transfers will weaken social protections.

Nationalism and consumerism are blinding India and Pakistan to the benefits of a collaborative relationship

The politician-activist-donor nexus dominates the appointment of judges.

PM Modi needs to move from slogans to action to transform agriculture.

Sixty-nine years after Independence, Indians are more free than when the British left, but less free than what the framers of our Constitution hoped us to be.

A couple desperate to have their children study; 3 boys who kept missing classes. As chaining the children lands the father in jail, the parents ask what is one to do

Babul Supriyo joined politics in 2014 and was voted to Parliament from West Bengal, one of only two BJP MPs from the state.

The Prime Minister assumed his rightful place as a national leader with his speech in the Lok Sabha, which was inclusive and generous towards the opposition parties.

The Prime Minister in his speech said he was sad that instead of laptops and books in their hands these children had stones and grenades.