Temple talk
The signs have been there for a while now — the BJP will not go into the 2019 Lok Sabha poll sans the Ram Mandir issue It has never been a secret in the mainstream Indian centre right — for lack of a better, equally-intelligible-to-all term — that though Prime Minister...
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Debating India’s ‘draconian’ laws
20 October 2018 | Raghav Pandey/Neelabh Bist -
Give Bt Brinjal the go-ahead
19 October 2018 | Navneet Anand -
Women who lead by example
19 October 2018 | Sadaf Zareen -
A quintessentially postcolonial poet
19 October 2018 | Sachida Nand Jha -
The Chinese are coming
19 October 2018 | Kushan Mitra -
Faith and law
19 October 2018 | Pioneer -
He had to go
19 October 2018 | Pioneer
The global warming goal and India
Hopefully, the assessment made by some of the best scientists in the world, working under the IPCC, will bring about urgent shifts in the manner that we use fossil fuels and conventional sources of energy The early part of October has been taken up worldwide in a debate and discussion on...
What it takes to kill a Tigress
The human-animal conflict is unequal given the weapons and other resources which humans command. T1 is perhaps destined to be one of its victims Time was when, faced with persistent complaints of a human-devouring tiger or tigress on the prowl, authorities in what is now Uttarakhand, particularly its Kumaon region, would...
Environment risks and migration
A vicious cycle of failing environment and rising migration levels needs to be ended by implementing effective agricultural strategies as suggested by FAO October 16 is observed as World Food Day in honour of the founding date of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations in 1945. The...
Leopards on the prowl again
Although the rate of poaching of the leopard in our country is shocking, numbers of the big cat are on the rise and they are dispersing in new areas in a majority of the States E P Gee, a well-known naturalist, estimated there were 6,000 to 7,000 leopards in the Indian...
Goa, going, gone
For the Congress, it appears to be game over in Goa, a State that was their stronghold till not so long ago In the 2012 Assembly poll in the tiny State of Goa, which has significant minority population, the Manohar Parrikar-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured a simple majority in the...
Entitlement Culture
VIP privilege which leads to the kind of incidents that went down in Delhi is the bane of a meritocratic society Events that unfolded at a posh hotel in South Delhi a few nights ago have once again highlighted the many shades of the all-persuasive, boorish VIP culture that infects the...
Khashoggi death: Worse than a crime
The killing of the Saudi journalist was definitely a blunder. Mohammed bin Salman thinks he can make foreigners shut up but his very own family can probably bring him down If Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), did really send a hit team to Turkey to...
