Opinion

The PM’s speech was highly laudatory, and he rightly termed the university as a ‘Mini India’, the former AMU V-C writes.

This exercise on part of the ruling JD(U) is also imperative because it could itself become victim of poaching by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, who is known for his precision to slice the rival political parties vertically.

Any peace deal finalised will have to go through a series of sub-negotiations in which the Afghan government seems to have little role other than that of a passive client to say the least.

The government is unwilling to repeal the law and the farmers agitating want nothing less. This stalemate cannot continue.

There is a filter bubble of political voices around superstar Rajinikanth that wants him in politics as it serves their purpose. But does it serve his?

The NDA knows that Lalu is a force to reckon with, the one who had controlled and monitored the Bihar election even behind the bar.

The allegations Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mahmoud Qureshi raised were those that the rest of the world has been employing to describe the role of Pakistan in sponsoring regional and global terrorism. Whether it is the US or EU, or India, which has...

While this would befuddle social scientists who made their career analyzing politicization of caste, the voters are having the last laugh. Beating anti-incumbency of 15 years was not an easy task. In that sense the victory is significant.

It is interesting to note that retail price inflation has raised its ugly head in these months despite weak consumption demand due to the Covid-19 fallout and within overall inflation, the spike in prices of fruits and vegetables is the biggest culprit.

Military values are reinforced continuously among individuals until they become second nature. These values guide the conduct of soldiers during times of crises or personal dilemmas on the right way ahead. Values also shape an individual's perception of h...

Lack of trust between Nitish Kumar and Paswan (made so overt by Chriag Paswan) is not about personal preferences but embedded in the social-caste structure of the state. To illustrate the point, one could recall the infamous Belchchi massacre of 1978, whi...

If Saudi Arabia gave its women the right to vote and run for office as late as 2015, India has finally given equal coparcenary rights to its women in the true meaning of the term only in August 2020.

The Bihar elections are an open game which could go in anybody’s favour and the contest would be held seat by seat, district by district and region by region.

The idea of censorship is a double-edged sword. With the reach of social media, the conventional ideas about censorship also need to change because things eventually get disseminated one way or the other.

Teachers of this age must teach to differentiate the essential from the necessary, the necessary from the useful and the useful from that worth disposal.

Muivah raised an army of Tangkhuls equipped with Chinese weapons and unleashed the bloodiest violence on the Nagas of Nagaland and denied them a yet another God sent opportunity for peace.