The depressing drumbeat of bad news from Jammu and Kashmir and Bhutan's Doklam plateau may or may not be a consequence of the policies or actions of Narendra Modi's government....
Catholic League president Bill Donohue digs beneath the issue of so-called transgender persons serving in the military:...
There has been much mud-slinging after news of a senior army officer's wife humiliating a junior officer's wife in public appeared in a national daily. Like it's the trend these days, this piece of "news" has been dissected to the minutest detail on social media platforms by just about anyone....
He said all the right things about his illustrious predecessors, including Pranab Mukherjee, and also about Indian poverty and diversity and combining the "wisdom" of ancient Bharat with the science of contemporary India. Similarly, the village panchayats and a digital Republic were described as the "twin pillars" of national life....
India faces a "real danger to freedom of expression", says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, a veteran journalist, who quit as editor of Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) after he was asked by the trust that manages the internationally respected journal to withdraw two articles critical of the government for favouring the Adani business group....
Yet to make a breakthrough in the case of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, Delhi Police has asked a high-level medical board to give clarifications on different findings and opinions given by forensic labs and the autopsy reports of AIIMS and the FBI to ascertain the cause of her mysterious death....
Does eating healthy necessarily mean eating tasteless? A gourmand may well answer that with a resounding 'Yes' -- but a bunch of chefs at the top of their game are out to change perceptions....
It's been a year since famed Indian artist S.H. Raza's death on July 23. A legend in the true sense of the word, he popularised Indian concepts and iconography globally and built an impressive legacy of modern art....
Only the naive will believe that the elevation of a Dalit, Ramnath Kovind, as the President is of seminal importance either for the community or for the party which chose him....
The greatest challenge for a short story writer, says one of the foremost names in the field -- who might not be too well known in India but has built up an impressive resume in the US -- is to stick to its ideal length, with the writer captivating his readers in a way that they have no desire for more....
