The life and work of Alexander Csoma de Koros (1784-1842), who spent his life travelling and learning languages in his search for the roots of the Hun

The government bends over backwards in the Air India sale, handing over an array of assets to the Tata group, but years of mismanagement and a host of

Innocent people suffer because public prosecutors in India are not free of government control, and the victims are very often Muslims.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s endorsement of the activities of Hindutva’s lumpen foot soldiers provides a clue to the direction the BJP

Colin Powell (1937-2021) has, among his many achievements, the distinction of being the first African American to occupy some of the highest military

Afghanistan struggles to regain a semblance of stability as the Taliban regime comes under terror attacks staged by the radical Islamist group Islamic

The former Mumbai Police Commissioner, who is alleged to be complicit in several extortion and corruption cases, has remained untraceable since May.

The cumulative effect of the Modi government’s flawed policies and the unfair tax burden have sent millions into unemployment, truncated the small and

The number of COVID cases has risen sharply in West Bengal after the Durga puja celebrations when people threw COVID-safety norms to the winds and the

The AIADMK, which steps into its 50th year in 2021, is now a pale shadow of its former formidable self. The party founded by the charismatic MGR is cr

Despite a parliamentary report indicting him for nine crimes relating to his handling of the COVID-19 situation in Brazil, including “crime against hu

The government’s obsession with mega events has resulted in a haphazard policy, leading to a record number of doses on certain days, such as Prime Min

Pitting Hindus against Sikhs at Lakhimpur Kheri and stirring the communal cauldron may be the BJP’s way to counter the attempt to expand the farmers’

Interview with Satyajit Rath, immunologist and visiting faculty, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.

Although the government has reacted angrily to the GHI report of 2021, which has ranked India lower than its South Asian neighbours, the report has in

The reality on the ground shows that the government’s promise to vaccinate all Indians by the end of 2021 is mere rhetoric. But the propaganda machine

Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan gets bail, but the drug-related case has taken on a new dimension involving the investigators and raising doubts about a la

The Modi government continues to claim that its policies have solved the problems in the Union Territory and restored normalcy, but the situation on t

India must study the mistakes it made in the process of achieving the 100 crore doses milestone and review the performance of its vaccination drive, d

The so-called coal shortage in India was the result of botched policy initiatives that involved curbing public sector mining and getting the private s

This book fills an important gap in scholarship on the history and current state of the portion of Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan illegally oc

Two new books, both by authors critical of gender identity ideology, take on the challenge of exploring the tide of sex denialism currently sweeping a