Opinion

India has showcased its sporting prowess in the Asian Games with 100 medals, including 25 gold, in the ongoing edition in the Chinese tech city of Hangzhou. However, this stellar performance has failed to hide the underlying military tensions between the two nuclear-armed Asian rivals. For India, the Games started on a sour note, and […]

The Bihar Caste census, hyped as the 'Brahmastra' to confront the seemingly invincible Modi-Shah duo, has ended up undermining Nitish Kumar's trust and credibility among influential caste groups in the state, thus exposing the flaws in the policy and acting as a deterrent for other states to follow into his footsteps

MK Gandhi was an influential figure of the 20th century and a peerless influence on India. Before him, mass politics, civil disobedience, and popular mobilisation, were largely unknown. He singularly created a rousing new awakening and propagated reasoned anti-imperialist consciousness whose reverberations were felt from Gymkhanas of Delhi, to the drawing rooms of Malabar Hills, […]

In what way is the US involved in the recent drama initiated by Canadian PM Justin Trudeau on the killing of terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar? Informed Indians are primarily divided in two groups on this question: those who think that this entire episode has been guided and directed by the USA, and those who think […]

Aditya Chaturvedi looks at the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard courtroom drama, and the recently released Netflix series on it, through a philosophical prism.