The renaming of a road is part of a wider pattern of strategic messaging by the NDA.

That’s the real challenge, in Palmyra and elsewhere, in the face of the IS’s ideology of fear and destruction.

In being unafraid of bringing religion into foreign policy, Modi treads new ground in India. But there are dangers.

On census, Christians and conversions, Surjit Bhalla has tortured his data to make it say what he wants to hear.

To suggest that quantity never produces quality is snobbish, inane and untrue.

Letter to the editor, 31 August, 2015.

The Centre needs to wake up. Otherwise India may return to the shortages of the mid-1960s.

We stand to gain much from developing an understanding of ancient India, its deep and diverse ideas.

In August, the rupee has depreciated by about 3.3 per cent against the US dollar. Such volatility and decline in asset prices are stressful.

Indians hate to walk. At sprawling foreign airports, they often don’t need to.

From now on China will be like any other economy.

Last week when TV channels announced that Sarma was holding talks with BJP president Amit Shah, Rahul sprang belatedly into action.

The new leader from Gujarat is an unpleasant young man with dodgy political ideas and dodgy political heroes.

It was Narendra Modi who had equated the strength of the rupee to the prestige of the prime minister.

Brazil’s president has upset both sides of the spectrum. The stalemate seems set to continue.

Despite having the highest level of female education and the lowest fertility rate, why is the Christian population growth rate the same as that of the average Indian?

A full-fledged GST will take time in the present political environment. But the Union government can begin by transforming its own indirect taxes into a GST at the manufacturing stage.

Is forcing government servants to send their kids to government schools absurdity or common sense?

They need protection. They are not wastelands, or receptacles of garbage.

The census data underscores the fact that the only community to grow at more than the usual rate was the Muslim community.

Sangakkara reintroduced the indomitable spirit of Sri Lankan cricket to the world.

Strengthen the New Pension System to head off ‘one rank one pension’-like political crises.

Gujarat, the first state to fight caste-based reservations, may also be the first to re-invent the system.

Distortions of the reservation policy caused the Patels to demand backward status.