WHEN Modi took over as the Prime Minister in 2014, he aroused great hopes in members of the Kashmiri Pandit community. Most people...
ByMK KawJuly 16, 2018THOUGH Uttarakhand had 21,966 protests, the highest number in the year 2016, it was Tamil Nadu with 20,450 protests—at the rate of 47...
ByCol R HariharanMay 18, 2018THE scary and sordid episode of Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash being subjected to physical violence in Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s office at...
ByRam VarmaApril 15, 2018THE ugly face-off and the violent fallout between the Civil Service and Delhi government remind us of EV Lucas’ short story, Face on...
ByAlam SrinivasMarch 9, 2018INDIA received a not so envious accolade last week when the Fraser Institute (one of world’s top think tanks) dropped the country from...
ByK. SUBRAMANIANMarch 9, 2018SINCE June this year, good news seems to have stopped coming for the Shivraj Singh government in Madhya Pradesh. Worse, frequency and intensity...
ByRakesh DixitOctober 14, 2017MADHYA Pradesh’s bureaucracy is baffled at an apparently Janus-faced Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Like the Roman god Janus that is depicted with...
ByRakesh DixitAugust 19, 2017IN 2016-17, over a billion people rode the Delhi Metro. On some days, over 3.5 million boarded the trains. Based on similar high...
ByAlam SrinivasAugust 19, 2017THE farmer stir that claimed six lives in police firing in Mandsaur on June 5 may have petered out, but its aftereffects are...
ByRakesh DixitJuly 9, 2017THE turning point came on the 4th of June, 2015. On that day, after being dormant for fifteen years, the North-East rebels proclaimed...
ByDiptendra RaychaudhuriJuly 9, 2017