Opinion

Prof SN Misra After the fall of Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama had said that the fall epitomised the end of all ideology, particularly of Socialism, and the advent of liberal democracy. When the book ‘End of History’ was slipped under the door of Margaret Thatcher,...

Saeed Naqvi The Saint Sophia museum in Istanbul being reverted into a mosque has brought back, like a powerful refrain, that couplet of Mir Taqi Mir which has been an emotional crutch for me. For instance, when I visited the great Cordoba mosque built in...

Dhanada K. Mishra Mahatma Gandhi said almost seventy-five years ago - “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” This was at a time when the world was not yet faced with the threat of sixth mass extinction. Gandhi was...

Dr. Bhaskar Nath Biswal ‘Shield Yourself Against the Rising Medical Expenses due to Covid-19’. This is the slogan displayed on the website of an insurance company. This is about the new insurance policy it is offering, styled as ‘Corona Kavach’. In fact, all the 30...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala China is facing the worst floods in hundred years though it made the largest numbers of dams in the world. India too is facing floods in Bihar despite having arrested floodwaters in the Tehri Dam. Assam is regularly facing severe seasonal floods. The...

Dr. Oishee According to projections, India will have 35 lakh Covid-19 cases by September. The daily nationwide testing of 27 lakh is proving to be inadequate with positivity rate – total confirmed cases per 100 tests -- reaching the double digit mark for the first...

Devinder Sharma Lakshminarayan is a farmer from Shimoga in Karnataka. He had taken a loan of Rs 35,000 from a local branch of Canara Bank. About a month ago, he received a threatening call from the bank, asking him to pay back the pending dues...

Naba Kishor Pujari With the onset of Covid-19 causing immense disruption to normal life, the world is busy fighting to check its spread. While the pandemic has pushed millions of people into economic hazards, we are yet to fathom the extent of damage that this...

Dr. Ramesh Chandra Parida & Dr. Pranab Kumar Ghosh A mother can never be evaluated in terms of money. She is simply priceless. So is tree, which provides us all the motherly care throughout our lives. This includes clean air to breath, pure water to...

Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to transform our behaviours, attitudes, and policies in many areas. For the sake of overcoming the public-health crisis and enabling economic recovery, one must hope that water and wastewater management will be among them....