Journalists continue to be the target of murder and imprisonment worldwide, which does not augur well for the health of democratic values.

The steady growth of Hindutva in coastal Karnataka has been accompanied by intense communal polarisation. In this developed region of the State, incid

The central trade unions organise a national strike to press for their charter of demands aimed at keeping workers in the protective ambit of labour l

Interview with V.A.N. Namboodiri of BSNL Employees Union.

R.K. Narayan’s house in Mysuru has been made into a museum, but the execution seems half-hearted. Much more needs to be done if it is to attract the g

Interview with Prashant Bhushan, political activist and lawyer.

The conduct of the spectrum auction, which was won by Reliance Jio for its services, raises disturbing questions about whether state policy is availab

Justice Jasti Chelameswar’s decision to keep away from the meetings of the Supreme Court’s collegium as a protest against its opaque functioning lends

The history of the collegium is replete with instances of successive CJIs using their clout to suppress dissent and presenting to the outside world a

Turkey’s open military intervention in Syria, with the United States’ backing, evokes sharp condemnation from Russia and Iran, Syria’s allies in its

For the first time, a company in India will have to pay compensation for damage occurring during a natural disaster: the NGT imposes a fine on GVK for

Interview with Union Minister Anil Madhav Dave.

The Supreme Court’s ruling that the land acquired in Singur for the Nano car project must be returned to farmers has come as a huge victory for Chief

Malaria control in India is seriously affected by the fact that the knowledge once gained through painstaking research and fieldwork by entomologists

With the time frame for stakeholders to submit complaints and suggestions over the declaration of ecologically sensitive areas in the Western Ghats ne

G. Prabha’s Sanskrit film Ishti pits the feminine spirit against patriarchy while weaving a riveting tale of transformation within the Namboodiri comm

Reliance Industries unleashes a full-scale war in the mobile business by blurring the divide between voice and data. But its entry as a harbinger of r

A book that will have a long-term bearing on contemporary political thought and the history of the “empire”.

Caught between Turkey’s demands and Kurdish ambitions, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has an impossible mission in Syria in which he is both the p

Right-wing opposition forces have succeeded in ousting President Dilma Rousseff on dubious grounds and are in the process of making changes in the cou

Pakistan’s statement criticising the hanging of the war crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali does not go down well in Bangladesh.

Although the data plan rates Reliance Jio is offering seem extremely low and attractive, a closer look at them suggests that the reality does not matc

Kiran Doshi takes an important period of modern India’s history and fictionalises it to make it more intelligible and plausible.

Vajpayee’s use of the slogan was of a piece with his evasion of specifics and was not informed by any real intent of conciliation.

The manner in which the Jayalalithaa government has filed defamation cases against political opponents and the media and gone about muffling dissent

The book opens up the windows of the Reserve Bank of India to the wider public to enable it to understand the working of a public institution that has

The ASI discovers a separate Neolithic phase for the first time in Odisha’s prehistory, followed by a clear-cut Chalcolithic horizon, in its excavatio

In the euphoria that has surrounded the Reliance Jio launch, Mukesh Ambani’s previous launch of mobile services 14 years ago provides some sobering th

The Prime Minister’s endorsement of the Ambani group’s new digital product ends speculation of the supposed distancing between Narendra Modi and Relia