Express Opinion

One cannot be blind to the suppression of one’s own while positing a universalist agenda. Anti-women behaviour needs to be addressed as a community project.

"I had to quarantine myself for seven days in a Bangalore hotel before leaving for the IPL," says Parthiv Patel, who recently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.

The asymmetric negotiating matrix between the famers and corporates will invariably lead to negation of their rights. The present laws alter the bargaining landscape in favour of the corporate players to the detriment of the

Sri Lanka offered DDCs as a solution at a time when the Tamil polity was already radicalised. The DDCs became a reality but they did nothing for Sri Lanka’s relations with its Tamil citizens.

Surjit S Bhalla writes: A minuscule minority of farmers is protesting against the farm laws. They don’t want an end to the system that has benefited them.

There are many “parties” working as “non-state actors” who may dislike your reports and come after you. In the interior of the province of Sindh, a journalist can be kidnapped and killed by an offended

Waving, air kissing and namaste will replace the handshake. Maybe in retrospect, we’ll miss this bizarre time that has provoked a universal bout of mass introspection.

Not all countries are in a position to take net zero targets. They should make pledges that are credible and fair.

PM makes eloquent and soaring case for democracy as he flags off new Parliament project — there was also the sound of a silence.

West Bengal’s politics needs an overhaul — the ruling party must own the responsibility, take the lead.

Like most greats, Paolo Rossi showed that it was possible to rise again from the ashes.

The document stresses on friendship between the two countries and suggests areas of cooperation between the two countries on international affairs including making the Indian Ocean a zone of peace.

The motives for joining the anti-CAA protests were different for different women, which allowed for greater mobilisation but simultaneously eroded their strength

Improving capacities of anganwadis is one of the ways to improve the country’s woeful record in addressing malnutrition.

The realities of torture and its prosecution in India would temper our expectations from this one development. The Supreme Court needs to ensure robust implementation of its order and simultaneously plug the gaps so that

Karnataka’s cow protection bill, like similar laws in other states, threatens to rupture critical chains in the rural economy.

Government has offered significant concessions. Farmers must not turn their back on a solution.

Market reformers must clean up their ideological lenses and see the reality of where power lies in markets. As Barbara Harriss-White, a scholar of India’s agricultural markets once observed, “deregulated imperfect markets may become more,

In Britain, William Shakespeare scripts a pandemic twist

Ashutosh Bhardwaj writes: Politics takes refuge in a leader; poetry is a celebration of people. Dabral’s political poetry is not about grand revolutions, but the muted sorrows of the common woman and man.

Suhas Palshikar writes: In itself, a prime minister agreeing to negotiate is not a shortcoming, but after having built an aura of non-negotiability about his wisdom, a settlement would mean the first step in converting

Amitabh Kant writes: What I said and what has been ascribed to me are poles apart. My statement, with relevant portions, is that India is too much of a democracy to mirror a China model.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 11, 1980.

This Human Rights Day is an opportunity to revisit the culture-centric approach to human rights, by first improving the conditions of the creators of culture, its practitioners and workers.

Astad Deboo defied attempts to pigeonhole his practice. Taking dance beyond the proscenium space and extending the vocabulary to many others, he created collaborators for his work.