Opinion

Melvin Durai My wife, Malathi, does not like to drive. Her car remains parked on our driveway 99 per cent of the time. Malathi drives it only on weekends, usually to go shopping and to ensure that snakes and other creatures do not start living...

Sampad Patnaik In December 2019, the Washington Post published its investigation into an 18-year-old propaganda by the US government about military successes in Afghanistan, while “hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.” The Post mentioned that it could only publish after a three-year-long legal battle...

Malay Mishra Four burqa-clad Afghan women auctioned at a street corner and a Taliban elder forcibly dragging away a small Afghan girl in full view of her parents who turn their back and walk away on the wailing child. At the Kabul International Airport, there...

Melvin Durai In my next life, I want to be farmer. Farming is hard work, with no guarantee of making a good living, but let me tell you something from personal experience: there is something magical about sowing seeds, watching them germinate and eventually harvesting...

Rup Narayan Das At a time when India is commemorating the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, and his passing away is still shrouded in mystery, it is worth a while to revisit a seminal work, Verdict from Formosa: Gallant End of Netaji...

Dr DK Giri Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot’s visit to India last week as the special envoy to finalise a Free Trade Agreement has sent a dramatic message to China and the world. If what he said happens, it would mean a radical change...

SN Misra The World Health Assembly had set a target to reduce the prevalence of anaemia among women in the age group of 19-49 by 50 per cent by 2025. As per the Global Nutrition Report 2020, India will miss this target by miles. Anaemia...

Melvin Durai It was early evening on August 7 and officials at the National Centre of Seismology were concerned about several tremors they had detected in Delhi, Haryana and other parts of India. They were about to issue an earthquake warning when they found themselves...

Dhanada K Mishra The just-released ‘IPCC Report 2021’ has been called ‘code red’ for humanity. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, short for IPCC, has been issuing these warnings for over three decades now based on the near-unanimous scientific consensus that anthropogenic emissions are causing...

Jagdish Rattanani & Sudarshan Iyengar The growing influence of large and powerful business conglomerates continue to raise concerns, not only in India but across the world. Suspicions have risen high these days in the age of the overwhelming influence of Facebook and Google but they...