BY SABINA KHAN
As has been highly publicised, Iran is in the midst of negotiations regarding its nuclear programme with six world powers: Britain, China,...
BY JACK DUTTON
The Feeding the World 2014 conference took place in the halls of an 18th-century mansion on February 13. It saw industry representatives,...
BY MUSHARRAF ALI FAROOQI
SOME of the most invaluable learning experiences in any creative activity are the doubting and reflection we undergo that leads us...
BY CHANDRAHAS CHOUDHURY
Here are three strange but instructive instances of pride, pique and prejudice in modern India at different levels of state and society....
BY SYED MUHAMMAD ALI
It doesn’t take a poverty specialist to realise that the world in the 21st century remains plagued by disturbing disparities. Some...
BY JOHN SPRITZLER
Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Constitutional scholar (like President Obama once was), is leading a march against corruption, by which he means the...
BY VASUNDHARA SIRNATE
In Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, the main protagonist, Guy Montag, is a “fireman” whose task is to burn all books. Set...
By Dr N. Janardhan
A few weeks ago Sachin Tendulkar ‘controversially’ became the youngest and first sportsperson to be formally decorated with India’s highest civilian...
Manoj Mitta’s analysis exposes a regulated drift in the Gujarat investigation, which the Indian media has studiedly chosen to ignore, even when put down...
BY JAWED NAQVI
Strangely enough, a TV channel screened the 1960s Indian movie Leader the other day, which was a day after Arvind Kejriwal filed an unusually...
BY PRAFUL BIDWAI
‘India makes a power point’, triumphantly announced a Times of India headline when Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella was named the CEO of the software giant...
BY AJAZ ASHRAF
Once you complete reading Manoj Mitta’s breathtaking investigative book, The Fiction of Fact-Finding; Modi & Godhra, you are likely to wonder about the...
BY JANET SURMAN
Gross pay, to a certain extent, appeases workers because they perceive themselves to be earning more than they are, although they also...
BY HUSSAIN NADIM
“The Empire, long divided, must unite: long united, must divide.”
The classical quote from the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong captures...
BY KALPANA SHARMA
Thanks to the unfortunate and virtually relentless reports of sexual violence against women in different parts of the country, the question of...
BY JONATHAN COOK
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely been so politically embattled. His travails indicate the Israeli right’s inability to respond to a...
BY APOORVANAND
These are lonely times for scholarship in India. TheShiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti( SBAS) has claimed yet another scalp in the form of the withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s...
BY MUDASIR WANI
Two points become clear from the foregoing discussion: that there is a strong connection between Geelani Sahib and the Jama’at in the...