Kerala is battling a three-frontal war: against flood, fund-crunch and fake news
As the muddy waters now recede from flood-stricken Kerala, one remembers the reactions this tragedy evoked. What is more tragic than lakhs of human...
Category : Opinion
Kerala Floods: Is our disaster response system flawed?
The Kerala floods is a grim reminder that India’s disaster management policy is flawed. Amidst the ongoing rescue operation in Kerala, Prime Minister Narendra...
Kerala Flood: a grim reminder of why India must revise the NDRF guidelines
The NDRF procedure of assessment not only neglects the fact that during natural disasters like Kerala Flood, time is most precious. If you want to...
Remembering Atal Bihari Vajpayee: journey of a statesman through pictures
Remembering Atal Bihari Vajpayee, perhaps the greatest statesman India has witnessed, we look back at the different stages of his life. It was the...
Rafale deal is Modi’s Bofors nightmare
Though the video attempts to defend the Modi govt’s Rafale deal, it ends up raising one more important question. Who is answerable to us? Modi...
Remembering Somnath Chatterjee: The statesman who was betrayed by CPI(M)
When the CPI(M) decided to pull out of UPA1, another blunder by the Marxist party, Somnath Chatterjee would have been the Jyoti Basu of his...
When will the Opposition learn?
Opposition unity is more like a political flash mob where they come together for special performances like No-confidence Motion and again disperse. The Opposition led...
Why the RS Deputy Speaker election win was more necessary for Modi than Congress
Why in the first place victory in the Rajya Sabha Deputy Speaker election so important for NDA, more so for Modi? The election for...
Kalaignar Karunanidhi: The Dravidian sun has set over Tamil Nadu
Karunanidhi joined Dravida Munnetra Kazhgam as a disciple of the Dravidian ideology but his unwavering faith has made him synonymous to the movement. On...
“You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall”: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Is the contribution of Nehru to India so negligible that it can be obliterated from India’s collective memory? When I was in school, the Jawaharlal...