Express Opinion

Mission Indradhanush is a successful intervention in scaling up immunisation for full coverage.

From the beginning, the ICHR has been beholden to the political and historical beliefs of whoever was in power. This aspect of its leadership has not changed.

Is ‘Sri Venkatesa Suprabhatam’ the right invocation for Lord Padmanabha of Thiruvananthapuram?

Angus Deaton has helped us understand poverty. His work has lessons for India’s policymakers.

A look at the front page of The Indian Express, published on October 14, Forty Years Ago.

Lumpenism of the Sena, pusillanimity of mainstream parties, ensure that Mumbai is losing sight of itself.

Upper-caste alliances are not called casteist. Subaltern caste coalitions are.

Shiv Sena’s real threat is this: It can shift markers of language and public norms.

Men need to be awakened and empowered to change the situation and the “power-based understanding of [the] man-woman relationship has to be discarded”.

Congratulations to the IMD which sounded out the country on below-normal rainfall at 93 per cent of the LPA and then downgraded it to 88 per cent.

The central message of Angus Deaton’s work: Becoming richer is not necessarily the same thing as becoming better-off.

In oppressive times, writers find ways to make their voices heard.

Shiv Sena’s attack on Sudheendra Kulkarni is part of a pattern of intolerance that is spreading on the BJP government’s watch.

Nawaz is not as powerful as Raheel. As the Pakistan army exerts real power, democracy is more and more a facade.

Manorama brought a quiet dignity to the role of the comedian in Tamil cinema.

New Delhi needs to take him at his word — and trust the people of Nepal.

Narendra Modi’s impressive outreach to the neighbours when he took charge of Indian diplomacy in May 2014 has seen some unfortunate stumbles — in the Maldives, Nepal and Pakistan.

The challenge is that different forms of malnutrition — stunting, wasting, overweight, anaemia, low birth weight — exist in almost all populations.

A number of significant disclosures were forced by the RTI, including the information regarding 2G and Commonwealth Games and so on.

As an aspiring world power, India cannot shrug off its responsibility to make its military establishment gender neutral.

A nonstop flight between Bangalore and Silicon Valley is a great idea

Ten years on, it is a weapon for the citizen facing arbitrary power. It needs to be protected, taken further.

Investments in the real economy are needed to ensure financial inclusion is for real.

The Union cabinet lacks a champion for agriculture

A look at the front page of The Indian Express, published on October 12, Forty Years Ago.