Governance first
The nation hopes that with this resounding majority and consequent political stability, the Prime Minister will succeed in actualising his own vision and India’s unbound aspirations The BJP was well on its way to emerging as India’s ‘natural party of Government’ under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee when its hope...
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Modi, the faith keeper
25 May 2019 | Prafull Goradia -
Three new-age musketeers
25 May 2019 | Amit Goel -
A lost opportunity
25 May 2019 | lalit Kumar -
Becoming agents of change
24 May 2019 | Swapna Majumdar -
Guard against an apocalypse
24 May 2019 | Sandeep Kumar Dubey -
Living dangerously
24 May 2019 | Nadeem Paracha -
Naya Bharat
24 May 2019 | Pioneer
Farmers back in the fold
BJP’s resounding victory in UP signals a triumph of developmental politics over the casteist variant. The pre-election payment to sugarcane growers worked too This Lok Sabha election has broken many myths not only at the national level but in Uttar Pradesh (UP), too. This is for the first time that...
Remembering Niki Lauda
The Austrian racer is best known for displaying his doggedness on and off the race track Austrian Formula 1 racing legend Andreas Niklaus Lauda passed away earlier this week. He was more than a legend. His comeback from his fiery accident at the old Nurburgring is one of the most...
EC must win our trust
While EVMs are convenient, there are too many reports of tampering. A workable solution is needed in future Granted there is a general air of mistrust over the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) ever since it was introduced, and depending on whichever party has had the unexpectedly winnable verdict, its opponents...
Time for cricket
The great Indian political tamasha that we see every five years is over, now the quadrennial cricket World Cup is here India has fond memories of the Cricket World Cup. After all, as Kapil Dev sprinted back to catch an over- the-head mishit pull off Vivian Richards back in 1983,...
China-Nepal love affair
The deepening of ties between Kathmandu and Beijing is a serious setback for New Delhi. China scored one more goal but it’s difficult to say how far this story will continue In politics, there is little difference between love and sycophancy — the case of Nepal is particularly telling. The...
How to end the plastic kingdom
The dismal global recycling statistics do make us wonder whether we will ever efficiently adopt 100 per cent recycling of plastics. A more fundamental solution is to switch to variants from biodegradable sources like wood, corn starch and sugarcane Plastics have for long been associated as an environmental contaminant. Slowly...
Iranian war is unwinnable
A confrontation between Iran and the US will be a high-speed replay of the Vietnam war and the latter will lose again. It really is the stupidest idea After a long debate, the highest levels of the military could not forecast a way in which things would end favourably for...
