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Giant steps

January 10, 2020 12:45:34 am

The golden couple of the UK don’t want to stand on ceremony any more. Sometimes, stepping back spells progress.

It is poetic irony that govt’s autocratic steps to quell dissent has produced the biggest awakening in recent history

January 10, 2020 11:25:23 am

At the core of the non-violent protests against the CAA, NRC and NPR is the message of peace and equality and an affirmation of solidarity with values enshrined in the Republic’s founding document.

State and society must seek avenues that could end the longstanding tension between the two

January 10, 2020 11:32:24 am

The society and state are in conflict. A youthful, vibrant, ambitious and connected society is pitted against a hesitant, at times paralytic, politically-shackled and precedent-bound state.

Window for peace

January 9, 2020 7:50:34 am

Tehran signals intent to avoid escalation of the conflict in Gulf. Washington must seize the opportunity and engage politically

Delayed action fuse

January 9, 2020 4:00:26 am

Over a decade after it was published, Mohammed Hanif’s ‘A Case of Exploding Mangoes’ sets off the Pakistan army

Weathering the storm

January 9, 2020 4:00:16 am

State of Climate of India report should occasion interventions to make people resilient to extreme weather events

$A new, fractured global order is upon us. India’s response must evolve accordingly$

A new, fractured global order is upon us. India’s response must evolve accordingly

January 9, 2020 10:13:03 am

As political ideologies fail to provide purpose and meaning to individuals, they are increasingly finding refuge in identity and religion. The thin line separating church and state is collapsing rapidly.

Soleimani’s assassination has no ethical justification, brings global order to the brink

January 9, 2020 10:20:46 am

Whether Soleimani’s past makes him a likely war criminal or not, the US cannot abrogate to itself the right to mete out drone-delivered justice, and so, any arguments in favour of an ethical justification for the assassination based on his past are empty.

Forty years ago, January 9, 1980: An Indira Victory

January 9, 2020 2:27:18 am

January 9, 1980: The Congress (I) would have crossed the 362 mark — which gives it a majority — during the day, but for the stiff resistance it met from the Left Front in West Bengal and from the Lok Dal in several constituencies in Uttar Pradesh and the Janata in some seats in Bihar.

It is for majority community to realise its duty not to discriminate against minorities

January 9, 2020 10:26:08 am

India, for the first time since 1947, is facing a direct confrontation between hardliners and liberals, between political ideologies, and sadly, between the majority and minority communities among its great people.

JNU is one of India’s great universities. Its autonomy must be nurtured and replicated

January 9, 2020 10:37:55 am

Last year, a consultant came to meet me. He was commissioned to give a report on how to build globally eminent universities and since JNU had done it in my days, he wanted the “formula”. There isn’t one: A great university is built with autonomy and accountability.

JNU has been used by the Left to further its political agenda

January 9, 2020 10:29:55 am

In 1983, leftist politics on campus became so violent and uncontrollable that the university had to be closed for a year.

View From The Right: Blame It On History

January 8, 2020 1:44:12 am

In an editorial, the Organiser has blamed the “monotheism” of Communism, Islam and Christianity whose “natural corollary” is the distortion of history.

January 8, 1980, Forty Years Ago: An Indira Victory

January 8, 2020 1:20:09 am

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on January 8, 1980.

Less work, more play

January 8, 2020 1:00:03 am

Finland’s PM calls for a four-day work week. It’s an old idea, but its time may have finally come.

The deaths in Kota bare the light on a healthcare system founded on apathy towards the poor

January 8, 2020 11:01:30 am

What is urgently required is not the involvement of private players but a sincere engagement by the state in matters concerning peoples’ health. Reports have shown that most of the babies in Kota died due to suffocation at birth; low birth-weight and infections were the other significant causes of death.

The isolationist view of the progress of knowledge is fundamentally defective

January 8, 2020 10:47:43 am

Divisions, tensions and violence between groups and sects that political separatists promote not only damage our social lives, but also work as barriers to intellectual progress within as well as across nations.

Whose police?

January 8, 2020 12:32:08 am

JNU violence has raised questions about the conduct of Delhi Police. The onus is on the force to restore its credibility.

Present operations and aims of country’s statistical system are at alarming variance with past legacy

January 8, 2020 10:08:06 am

The danger that the system can be subverted increases when there are pressures to misuse the statistical system for political purposes. For example, there is a genuine fear that the exercise of preparing a National Population Register (NPR) as a prelude to Census 2021 could be subject to such misuse.

Sobering account

January 8, 2020 12:23:14 am

NSO pegs growth at 5 per cent, Union budget must pare down expectations to reflect state of economy.

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