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By Dr.Tasaduk Hussain Itoo The need to spread environmental awareness is enormous in the context of successfully addressing environmental problems. It is linked to environmental education. On the one hand, provision of

By Ashwani Kumar The course of democracy anywhere in the world is defined by events that test the resilience of democracy and also add to it. The arrests on August 28 of

AFSPA SC plea

By Mehr F. Husain Pakistan at the Helm is Tilak Devasher’s second book on the country, the first being Pakistan: Courting the Abyss. A former member of India’s civil service, he writes

By JAVED ANAND Kerala, currently reeling under nature’s fury, is often referred to as “God’s own country” and rightly so. Apart from being a tourist’s paradise, the state prides itself for having

By SABARI RAYCHAUDHURI Nandita Haksar’s The Flavours of Nationalism: Recipes for Love, Hate and Friendship is a bold memoir that deftly touches upon various aspects of our daily lives — from food

By Khaled Ahmed Pakistan’s last Field Marshal Ayub Khan’s posthumous book, Diaries of Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan 1966-1972, had a significant entry: “Chanakya the Indian philosopher was also called Kautilya which

By A.G. Noorani EACH prime minister has his or her own distinctive style of bringing the press to heel. Jawaharlal Nehru amended the Criminal Procedure Code to make it easier to prosecute

By Irfan Husain SANSKRIT has always intrigued me, partly because it shares so much grammar and vocabulary with a number of European and South Asian languages. But for me, it’s more personal:

By Ranjan Kashmir is boiling over Article 35A, the constitutionality of which is under attack. The Supreme Court is set to adjudicate on whether it is violative of the basic structure of