Express Opinion

The proposed legal amendments do not factor in the complex cruelties of ‘honour’ crimes...

Stop the denial — proof that Himalayan glaciers melting is irrefutable. Why won’t we do anything about it?

Asia will look to the Commonwealth Games for signs that India’s moving beyond the regional stereotype of disorganised chaos..

Bangalore’s quaint,unique coffeeshops are slowly giving way to its great export — CCD...

Some of Delhi’s leading journalists camped outside Omar Abdullah’s residence hoping for an interview with the beleagured Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister after the army was called in to control the turbulence in Kashmir....

A shameful blot on our criminal justice system is the phenomenon of undertrials rotting in jails for periods longer than the maximum punishment imposable upon conviction.....

Once again we have a display of the insecurities of the Maratha people....

When I heard Pakistan’s Foreign Minister liken the Indian Home Secretary with Hafiz Mohammed Sayeed last week I was so shocked that I thought I had heard wrong....

Music is an emotion and passion that people cannot do without. A recent study by global market research firm Synovate with 8,000 adults,ages 18+,across 13 countries....

Its conference seized on languages like Tamil and Bangla as new growth frontiers....

That’s how it’s playing out in Karnataka politics,as BJP,Congress and JD(S) all look to cover their tracks in the mining mess....

Our political parties may have different ideological stripes but most of them have a common streak — promoting their interests even at the cost of reason and truth....

What the assassination of Habib Jalib Baloch portends for a province sitting on a time bomb....

One-size-fits-all ‘accountability’ for NGOs won’t work....

Post-election pettiness means Obama’s White House is crushing the talent of Clinton’s state department....

A register of reports and views from the Pakistan press....

First time on Indian television,Times Now said. What?! This: Footage of men in a despairingly frozen-in-time and therefore a typical Bengal village....

Complicated,and working with multiple ideological considerations,Kashmir’s politics has made genuine dialogue and socio-political progress almost impossible....

The 50 per cent reservation mark is a principle of political morality....

The Indian rupee gets a unique identity,but will it make a real imprint?

Even if the Maoists don’t lead the new Nepal government,they will still steer the course of Nepali politics....

You think Russian spies are the only Cold War relic floating around? Think nuclear submarines....

2010 is the year which will see,for the first time,a number of international summits on the tiger,culminating in the first ever summit of head of states from tiger countries in Russia....

In a signed commentary on the situation in Kashmir in the daily Sahafat,published from Delhi,Mumbai,Lucknow and Dehradun,entitled “Back to Square One”....

The crisis over cashless hospitalisation is because India’s public-sector insurance has been struggling with high claims for years now....