Opinion

Melvin Durai Responding to an online petition, the matrimonial website Shaadi.com recently removed a skin complexion filter that allowed people to search for potential partners through descriptors such as “fair,” “wheatish” and “dark.” This is a welcome change. I certainly wouldn’t want to categorise myself...

Naveen Jindal A  global pandemic threatening the very human civilization may not be the best of times to discuss population explosion and the strain that it puts on a nation’s resources, exchequer, and the national and social fabric. Look no further than New Zealand as...

Dhanada K Mishra We are an examination-obsessed country proven conclusively by the latest guidelines issued by the top higher education regulator, the University Grants Commission. The guidelines say the universities “are required to complete the examinations by the end of September 2020 in offline (pen...

T Jacob John and Jagdish Rattanani There is criticism against the ICMR over its recent diktat to deliver a vaccine for Covid-19 by Independence Day, August 15. The direction is flawed and the ICMR has made itself and India lose respect. That the purpose of...

Shivaji Sarkar Rising food prices are adding to the woes of post-corona lockdown recovery. Some states are in quandary whether to allow full opening or continue with half-shut half-open measures. This is adding to supply problems creating artificial shortage. This is a double whammy. Recession...

Saeed Naqvi The manner of Vikas Dubey’s murder (encounter) would cause Joey the child in awe of Shane played by Alan Ladd to scream: “that’s not fair – I hate you.” A knee-jerk response to the Dubey saga would lead us nowhere without picking up...

Dr. S.N. Misra & Sanjaya Kumar Ghadai In 1975, the national emergency ironically coincided with the launching of the biggest nutritional programme, the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), to mitigate undernourishment amongst children and expecting and lactating mothers, and achieving socio, economic and distributive justice...

Dr D K Giri The disengagement in Ladakh has begun. China is stepping back from three contentious areas; Galwan, Hot Springs and Gogra. Everyone at home and abroad is cautioning New Delhi to carefully monitor the withdrawal; never to take the Chinese on their word,...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is printing notes and the government is borrowing that money to meet the shortfall in its revenues due to the pandemic. While this could be a justifiable response to the present crisis, there is more to it....

S Saraswathi A survey conducted by the Tamil Nadu Women’s Collective in 62 villages in 18 districts in the state found that 81 per cent of families reported some kind of domestic violence during the lockdown period. Of these families, 25 per cent were also...