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With the nation facing a “real and present” military threat from two adversaries, it is incumbent upon the GoI — notwithstanding the economic downturn — to find the means to bolster national security.

Flood of Israeli tourists in Dubai shows that, like war, peace can come by other means.

Partial reopening of schools in several states is a necessary and welcome step. For teachers, the task is cut out.

It is in the Arctic that global warming presents its most dramatic face; the region is warming up twice as fast as the global average. The ice cap is shrinking fast — since 1980, the

It is the intangible spirit, the underlying metaphysical order, which lends Louis Kahn’s architecture its power. His masterpiece in Ahmedabad must be preserved in its entirety, restored from one end to the other.

Jean Dreze writes: Surjit Bhalla picks on data, but fails to debunk evidence of alarming trends in child nutrition.

Indira Gandhi said that solutions to most problems facing the country were beyond one organisation or one party and had to be seen from a much broader point of view.

Women tend to have a natural biological survival advantage over men. Yet, paradoxically, in India, the CFR for women is higher than that for men.

The National Education Policy (NEP 2020) announced a few months ago, too, has endorsed the idea by providing for a common single regulator for the entire higher education system, with the exception of medical and

With government’s tax revenues picking up, it should spend more to support the economy.

The global death rate attributable to air pollution exposure is 86 deaths per 100,000 people. Ninety-two per cent of the global population lives in places where air pollution levels are above the WHO guideline for

The university has got mired in short-term objectives. It needs to go back to its founding principles.

In March, as a sudden lockdown was announced, the massive out-migration from cities of migrant workers made us realise that this silent majority had been made invisible by the city, much as Dalit experience and

In the aftermath of the pandemic, moreover, we should realise the interconnected-ness of all life on the planet, that the questions and challenges we face are both global and local.

For long, homo sapiens has been known as a questing, consuming, destructive species. What is new in this calculus is the idea of global finitude.

It is time to imagine the boulevards and sewers that will emerge at the end of this pandemic. To consider this, we must ask what from 2020 should we reinforce, what must we rebuild and

PB Mehta writes: Outside of political contexts there is enough vitality, creativity and reciprocity, where the people are expressing themselves in all their concreteness, individuality and complexity, more than enough to sustain faith in the

There is no reset button, no way to erase annus horribilis. But perhaps optimism about a new year isn't unwarranted

UK regulator's approval to Oxford vaccine means India is a step closer to rolling out an inoculation drive against coronavirus

This was a year of the shrinking public sphere. Here’s to stepping out, without stepping over

Five persons were killed and about 14 injured in violent incidents that marked the one-day band called by the Tamilaga Vivasiyagal Sangham led by C Narayanswami Naidu.

Fraternity may well be the only treatment for the multitude of challenges that this pandemic has brought with itself.

Both need to listen to each other because for them, and all of us, the end is the same — India's peace and prosperity. So both need to choose means that are wise, that are

For the larger Hindutva project is fundamentally about consolidating Hindu society across caste differences and the Muslims are the punching bags. The prejudice and fear against them is designed to instil such unity.

It is incumbent upon healthcare providers who have borne witness to the societal fissures that determined who lived and who died, to help rebuild and reimagine. They ought not to retreat to the wings.