Why India Needs Population Control

Will Prime Minister Modi start a conversation on the need for people to limit the size of their families, asks Colonel Anil A Athale (retd) on the occasion of World Population Day, July 11. IMAGE:......

'The past has a knack of exploding in our faces'

'People beat their chests when the Babri Masjid was brought down, not realising that it was just one event in a chain going back centuries; to look at the last link or two in isolation is absurd.'......

The Truth and Myth of Indira Gandhi

'It has even been suggested that Modi and Amit Shah, however grudgingly, harbour admiration for her controlling streak and steely resilience,' says Sunil Sethi. IMAGE: Indira Gandhi with Mother......

Debunking 10 myths about China and the South China Sea

An international tribunal in the Hague ruled in favor of the Philippines Tuesday, concluding that there was no legal basis for China to claim historic rights to resources within South China Sea......

Did NDA govt help Vedanta's Tuticorin factory?

The environment ministry till May 2014 (still under UPA) ordered that cases like Vedanta’s expansion plans need to consult people.  But in December 2014, the NDA government reversed this......

Threats that India faces in a post-globalised world

India should plan its strategies on the assumption that the rightward swing will stay and the West will retreat into an economic fortress, says Nitin Desai. One month of the Donald Trump......

Protecting the environment was a Herculean task: Jayanthi Natarajan

Former Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan tells Nitin Sethi that she had an unpopular job but she never did anything wrong. Excerpts: Image: Villagers walk towards the Mahan forest......

Hail the invisible hand of the State

Neither pharma nor IT would have become the stars of the economy without the active but largely invisible hand of the Indian State, says Ajit Balakrishnan. The current debate in India about how to......

Why You Must Watch Rings Of Power

'Tolkien wanted his work to be timeless so the people of any country, any time and any background would be able to find themselves in these stories.' With his fantasy books The Hobbit and The Lord......