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By Pulapre Balakrishnan The university in India is morphing under external pressure. How it will end up should be a matter of concern for all Indians and not just its denizens. This

Abdication of Responsibility by PMO and CVC

By Jyoti Malhotra New Delhi: remains untied in Verma’s FIR against Asthana is the passing reference to Samant Goel, additional secretary in India’s external intelligence agency, RAW. According to highly placed

By bid Ahmad Shah History is replete with chronicles of conflicts since the dawn of the human civilization.Although, the scale and intensity of these conflicts can be variable,yet going through the narratives

By Mubashir Noor What are the core duties of a government? This debate is as old as the idea of nation-states itself. If a government must prioritise economic growth with equity, is

By Rahul Bedi The spirit of English sahibs and their equally grand memsahibs would be troubled by Himachal Pradesh’s BJP governments recent proposal to rename Simla, their once delightful summer capital 154

By Subhash Gatade “Change is in the air”! A retired academic who had his last assignment as Vice Chancellor of a leading university said to me the other day, while we were

By Ananya Bhardwaj The unprecedented churn in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over corruption allegations follows two years of hostilities between its top two officers, director Alok Verma and special director

By Mubarak Ali There are many factors for the rise and fall of nations. One of them is change of environment. When historians and scientists turn their attention to the downfall of

By Gautam Bhatia In Isaac Asimov’s famous Foundation novels, one of the protagonists often explains that “violence is the last refuge of the incompetent”. In India, the fallout of the #MeToo movement