Cultural homogenisation through centrestaging Sanskrit will rob Indian culture of its plurality.

The real challenge is not teaching women in the air force to fly. It is bringing about a shift in thinking. Women in the forces need to be made equal contributors to strategy, future-planning.

Indian interests in Africa will benefit from timely implementation of projects.

Supreme Court’s NJAC verdict is an innovation to preserve the judiciary’s power to appoint its own.

The myth of Subhas Chandra Bose living incognito is just that — a myth.

NJAC verdict underscores justice rests on mutual respect among institutions, not brute executive will.

Like anti-blasphemy laws across the border, India’s legislation on cow slaughter and protection may have become a tool to harass and intimidate minorities.

India needs to think with its head to exploit opportunities in the US-Pak nuclear negotiations.

Separate personal laws for communities are antithetical to a uniform civil code.

Deaton knows the importance of both theory and data in solving social problems.

I know many of the writers involved; most are longstanding critics of the Congress. Contrary to Jaitley’s claim, most have never been “recipients of past patronage”.

Admiral Ram Tahiliani was a role model for the fraternity of sailors.

In 1999, three members of the Congress did the BJP’s work for it by raising the issue of Sonia Gandhi’s ‘foreign origins’.

They are young, urban and online. They organise efficiently and move swiftly to muzzle dissent.

Fighters for liberal rights cannot rely on any Government. Remember the Emergency. As Taslima Nasreen and Salman Rushdie know, the seculars are just as bad when their vote banks are at stake.

The Desi Modi stands in depressing contrast to Modi Abroad

The Vigilance Bureau building is reportedly to be converted into the CM’s ‘advisory council office’ if Nitish returns as CM.

Writers who would have been adults during the Emergency said that the atmosphere of ‘intolerance’ today was worse than it was then. Really? How many of them have been jailed for saying this?

The writers are protesting against events that have not only political overtones but have profound social consequences. Are all Indians obliged to conform to one notion of religion or food or language or dress?

Pranab Mukherjee’s Israel visit reconfirmed Delhi’s deliberate policy ambivalence

High quality and transparent data needed for informed debates.

While the acceptance of the award brings glory to writers, it’s in the returning of it that our collective battles are fought.

Modi knows that the liberati media is gunning for him. Then why give them a beefy opportunity?