Foreign aid: The US accepted it for Hurricane Katrina, why can’t India for Kerala?
The US had accepted $ 100 million foreign aid from Qatar and UAE. This strikes down the rationale behind the refusal of foreign aid that it...
Category : Opinion
Sacrilege of religious text: Punjab govt’s new brainchild may end up strangling genuine debate
Section 295A does not even clearly draw a line between genuine criticism and deliberate, malicious intentions to insult religious text. On the eve of 15th August,...
Is saffron taking over Tiranga?
The Saffron that is trying to be all-pervasive is narrow in its outreach. It excludes all who do not adopt the outlook that it propagates....
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...
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...