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July 2, 2020

How Bakarwals are braving the pandemic

By Firdous Khan At a time when almost entire world is in the middle of Corona Virus crisis and all sources of physical connectivity be it local, national or international have been…

Fear of losing political power

By Iftikhar Ahmad Research and results on ground have indicated that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success. What is ultimately required is a society that creates incentives,…
July 3, 2018

Foreign relations are in tatters

By Shekhar Gupta India’s external and strategic environment is looking like a train-wreck and it isn’t just to do with the American humiliation of “postponing” the vaunted “two-plus-two” dialogue for the third…
July 1, 2018

Mehbooba’sManmohan moment

By Barkha Dutt Till recently, Mehbooba Mufti — a hardy, unconventional woman working in a dangerous and male dominated world — held one of the toughest jobs in India. As the chief…
July 1, 2018

An Open Letter to Governor Vohra

By Naveed Para Respected Sir, I am writing this letter when the popular government of state no longer exists; creating fear in the minds of common people on the pretext that Governor’s…
July 1, 2018

The physics of our lives

By Basab Das gupta If we observe the life of a randomly selected person, chances are that it progresses according to a daily pattern during the week. He/she gets up in the…
July 1, 2018

The meaning of secularism

By Smita Gupta As a series of important State elections and then the Lok Sabha election approach, the Congress is being watched for how it plays the secularism card. Over the last…
July 1, 2018

Bipartisan consensus needed

By ShastriRamachandaran The first-ever report of the United Nations on the human rights situation in Kashmir finds the Government of India in a Catch-22 situation, from which it may not be able…
July 1, 2018

IQBAL: A GUIDING LIGHT FOR MUSLIMS

Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), philosopher, poet and political leader, was born in Sialkot, a small town in the Punjab, which is now a province of Pakistan. In 1927 he was elected to…
May 6, 2018

RECONSTRUCTING A ‘MUTINY’

No matter how horrendous the atrocities or massacres, humans have the stark ability to rationalise their actions using a mixture of pseudoscience and ideological narratives. It is only decades or centuries…
May 6, 2018