Opinion

Alex Hinton Strange as it is to say, but it is no longer uncommon to hear talk of insurrection, martial law, and civil war in the United States. The arrest of militia leaders in Michigan on charges of planning to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer and...

Dr D.K. Giri Foreign Ministers from four Quad countries met in Tokyo last Tuesday to discuss pandemic-related issues. At the behest of Japan, a Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI) in order to reduce dependence on China was also discussed. The new supply chain would enhance...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala Union Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad, has expressed satisfaction that the number of mobile phone manufacturers in India has increased from two to 60 in the last five years. In parallel, Secretary Ajay Prakash Shawney has said that...

Martin Macwan Hathras is the first case in independent India where the State has deprived the parents of a sexual abuse victim the right to respectfully cremate their child by forcefully burning the body, knowing full well that it is destroying crucial evidence. The right...

Bill Emmott Japan's new Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga, has arrived with a suite of ambitious policy ideas, including plans to digitise government services and revive the country's regional banks. But he has yet to come up with an overarching theme that strikes a chord with...

Dr. S. Saraswathi Ten Central Trade Unions have announced a nationwide general strike on November 26 as a protest against the recent labour codes law passed by Parliament. They are mainly sore over diminution of their right to strike. Three labour codes have been passed...

Ashok Mahapatra China’s hegemonic ambitions are well-documented, and these continue for long. Notably, after gaining complete control of the mainland, the Communist Party of China (CPC) established the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. The CPC forced Kuomintang (KMT) led by Chiang Kai-shek to...

Melvin Durai A matrimonial ad placed by a 37-year-old man from West Bengal recently went viral on Twitter. It was first shared by Nitin Sangwan, an IAS officer in Ahmedabad, who made this intriguing comment: “Prospective brides/grooms, please pay attention. Matchmaking criteria are changing.” Are...

Ian Buruma In his quest for the secret of US democracy in the 1830s, the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville reflected on the important role played by religion in American life. Having escaped from the authority of the Pope, he argued, American Christians were free...

Dr. Bhubanananda Sahu The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the USA sent the first-ever unique satellite to Space called cosmic background explorer (COBE) in 1989 to measure the scatter infrared and microwave radiations from the early universe. It is reckoned that COBE can visualise...