With geopolitical game in West Asia reaching new heights, powerful players bid to secure their interests

Lack of adequate and timely access to finance continues to be the biggest challenge for their growth prospects

It is now enough to convince people to believe whatever you are saying, even if it isn’t the truth

The BJP government is portraying the entire opposition as the nation’s enemy as if the BJP is itself the nation

Teaching through mother tongue must be viewed in the perspective of education in universities, where English continues as medium of instruction

Marry merit and integrity with ‘authority’ so that public officials are honest and meritorious to deliver goods and services

To conduct ourselves justly towards others, we have to ignore criteria such as their gender, race, religion

The university must make its presence felt by a proper rebuttal to the vilification campaign of AMU and Sir Syed

Union govt has to statutorily compensate States and the Act doesn’t specify any conditions absolving it from this duty

The contribution of tribals was significant in the fight for freedom and Telangana is an important territory in this respect

The policy is an expression of a conviction that the best way forward is to walk backwards

The demand to celebrate it as day of liberation or as day of integration warrants closer scrutiny

Trying to ape BJP on larger ideological issues is neither helping it win new votes nor retain existing ones

Our standing as the world’s largest democracy will be in peril if we do not treat all our citizens equally

The seminal prerequisite is to determine if the problem is instructional medium or instructional methodology, or a combination of both

The heads I win, tails you lose approach will damage the assiduously built federal system

Increasing penetration of mobiles in rural India makes it easier to implement digital tech solutions even in inaccessible areas

Tax compliance should be a fundamental duty and taxpayers must be classified based on their compliance track record

Tax isn’t an entitlement of tax collectors but duty of every citizen and compliance should be a fundamental duty