Crying shame
The brutal custody death of two men in Tamil Nadu has given us our #livesmatter moment. Book errant cops, now If the ugly face of police brutality and the killing of George Floyd in the US incensed us in India, then we should be venting vociferously on the excesses in our...
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Chinese art of deceit
29 June 2020 | Bhopinder Singh -
Problem of unemployability lies in education system
28 June 2020 | Raghavendra P Tiwari -
China’s sinister game in guise of peaceful rise
28 June 2020 | Makhan Saikia -
No Board exams
27 June 2020 | Pioneer -
China won’t back down
27 June 2020 | Pioneer -
Why we slip into amnesia
27 June 2020 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Hurting China or ourselves?
26 June 2020 | Pioneer
Ayurveda vs Ramdev
By claiming a drug for COVID while procuring its licence as a preventive, Patanjali has diluted research into our herb heritage If the slew of products, from disinfectants to immunity boosters, is any indication, then a subsidiary economy has evolved from the fear of the pandemic. So anything claiming preventive properties...
India’s counter strategy
India must take the lead in the South Asian region by accelerating economic activities and involving other nations in integration projects. This can serve as a deterrent to China Ever since independence, India’s stated objective in the South Asian region has been to pursue friendly relations with its immediate neighbours. An...
The joke’s on him
Djokovic is nicknamed the ‘joker.’ His beliefs in pseudoscience are no joke though as he tests positive No one can doubt Novak Djokovic’s stunning success in the tennis circuit. Even before this year’s tennis was short-circuited due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Djokovic was the only man to consistently challenge the duopoly...
Can Russia help?
While its ties with China are transactional, it has to get past the latter’s economic heft to rationalise India’s stand The Russia-India-China (RIC) trilateral front, ostensibly to fob off the preponderance of the US and the EU, is now being tested with its inherent pulls and pressures. China’s ingress at Ladakh’s...
Lessons from history
One hopes the Prime Minister learns from past events and chooses a course of action that’s in the nation’s interest. He must understand that the Army retains an edge over the PLA At the turn of the 20th century, George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, writer and essayist, wrote, “Those who cannot remember...
Grounded ‘mission’
The Vande Bharat scheme was just a cover for expensive and monopolistic charter flights. The US has rightly called it out Damned if you do, damned if you don’t, some in the Indian Government will argue. After the first phase of the evacuation of Indian pilgrims from Iran as also those...
Code red Delhi
Lives could have been saved if the disease protocol was executed in letter and spirit. We can’t afford to go the New York way In a major firefighting exercise, the Centre and the Delhi Government have decided to bury the hatchet, work together to curtail the spread of COVID-19 and keep...
