Police departments are home to deep-seated gender bias and stereotyping. Even women cops are masculinised, completing a vicious circle.

Brexit militates against the spirit of human oneness.

Prakash Javadekar must ensure ideology does not take precedence over reform.

The origins of the Brexit vote, indeed of the need to call the Referendum, lie in the recent past of the Conservative Party.

Smriti Irani’s downfall came about largely because she had alienated most of her Cabinet colleagues, including those handling the HRD in the PMO.

The ideology of Islamism is directly responsible for creating these monsters who become bereft even of basic humanity.

I believe that in the next 25 years we have a good chance of wiping out poverty completely — in the case of at least 100 million people it is abject poverty.

For Jagjivan Ram the panacea for social ills lay in integration, not confrontation

The insistence on ideological purity could prove fatal for India’s Left

Diplomacy’s lexicon sets store by discreetness and politesse, which cannot be derided as yachna or begging. The supercilious rants seen in public debates on the Seoul experience hardly help

Stories from the Urdu press.

The retrogressive tendencies unleashed by the Emergency have gained an upper-hand.

The founder of the Aligarh Muslim University wanted it to be a non-sectarian educational institution.

Rajasthan law reform project is the most ambitious overhaul of outdated and obsolete statutes undertaken in the country.

Smriti Irani’s downsizing in the Modi ministry took everyone by surprise.

Excerpts from the judgment of the Madras High court uphelding the right of Tamil author Perumal Murugan to publish novels.

Organiser comments that “in the race for this newsy struggle, the real message given to the people was missed out”.

Willingness to depart from orthodoxy is K.G. Subramanyan’s invaluable legacy.

In the intersection of secularism, an illiberal state and war crimes trials may lie reasons for the recent attacks in Bangladesh.

With his return to the realm of ideas, Rajan has accepted the responsibility to speak out without the constraints of public office. This is where the fun begins.

In a competitive global economy, India must use regulations strategically

Delhi needs a more agile — and more open — policy to engage with Beijing

Political instability has allowed it to spread and grow.

Agriculture needs a champion in the Union cabinet.