The sector is ripe for reform. Will the Centre bite the bullet in the next budget?

Paris was no Copenhagen. But let’s now hope it is no Rio, where commitments made in 1992 were abandoned in due course.

Parliament has been turned into a general purpose complaint akhada.

As Nirbhaya, Jyoti became a symbol of civic convenience that fit with Indian society’s patriarchy. We know her name. Let’s say it aloud, again and again

It is noticeable that since Modi-Sharif talk during COP21 and Sushma Swaraj's Pak visit, there has been a toning down of the angry rhetoric between the two countries.

The Modi government must prepare for an endless non-cooperation movement and get on with the task of governance.

On the National Herald issue, it appears that the government was prepared for the expected.

GDP price deflator is negative. So why can’t the RBI cut rates?

The conference of DGs and IGs that begins today must lay down a roadmap for meeting policing and internal security challenges for the next five years.

Vendetta, fascism, psychopath, crybaby — it’s all on TV.

A Saudi Arabia-Iran reconciliation alone can end Shia-Sunni conflict in West Asia.

Three years later, December 16 reminds us that we need to make our streets and systems more gender-friendly.

Benedict Anderson’s work spurred debates on nationalism, neglected by the left till then.

After its worst-ever debacle in Lok Sabha elections, the Congress should rebuild the party with an inclusive organisational structure.

The climate agreement strikes a fine balance between ambition, differentiation and finance

Sangh’s relationship with Ambedkar is being misrepresented.

India’s poor are closely bunched up near the poverty line. This could make poverty alleviation more manageable.

India’s unfolding partnership with Japan allows Delhi to respond more effectively to China’s One Belt, One Road initiative.

And a personal email from Salman Rushdie to Rajiv Gandhi was ‘filed’ away.

In the absence of disabled-friendly public transport, Delhi’s car-free day and odd-even formula will force upon me undesired holidays.

Twenty-first century town-planning must put nature at its heart.

Urban governments in India are abject failures. The elected representatives jostle to control access to land as a surefire way of looting the gullible.

Sonia Gandhi has been summoned to appear before a trial court on December 19 in connection with the National Herald case.

After returning from another mysterious medical break in a mysterious foreign country, Sonia got the news that the Delhi High Court had accepted that there was merit in the National Herald case.