Opinion

Like how Gandhi prevailed over Churchill in proving him wrong, Chandrashekhar Rao stands as the David against the 56-inch chest Goliath, to bring back the very essence of India

The idea of floating Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), an all-India political party, was hanging in the air for some time now. It was finally launched on October 5.

By Amitava Mukherjee Great interest is likely to be generated all over the country as K Chandrashekhar Rao, the Chief Minister of Telangana and the founder of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (now BRS), launches his own national party. It may act as a trendsetter as no other regional party of the country has so far […]

The best strategy for the Congress will be to turn Bharat Jodo Yatra into a Bharat Jodo Andolan

Homogenisation of society by pushing a single political ideology, religion and a particular type of identity augments the cultural degradation of plurality

In the past, Europe played a balancing role: a place where LNG cargoes were sent, normally in the summer months, when demand was low in Asia

By Dipa Sinha While the period before the pandemic saw exceptionally low food inflation in India, the current inflation, particularly in food items, is putting added pressure on people’s ability to access adequate and nutritious food. In a country where the poor spend over 40% of their incomes on food, sustained food inflation poses a danger […]

The futures we can anticipate include significant impacts not only from accelerating climate change, but also from pollution, wars, pandemics, AI, current demographic trends and social conflict.

A stronger approach might be one that uses the frameworks to curate data that ameliorates specific problems of communities, and ensures data is used in line with the needs of the community in question.

Even in countries with massive numbers of undernourished people, such as in India, harvests are moving away from crops for direct food consumption.

Post-World War II, Europe invested in regional cooperation, but now with Russian invasion of Ukraine, even pacifist countries like Germany have decided to increase their defence budget.

Seaweed has now been certified by ICRISAT, Hyderabad, as an active biofertilizer and with organic farming catching on, seaweed sap as fertilizer is bound to break new ground

While the people of Telangana have forgotten the animosities of 1948 and have imbibed a secular way of life, the BJP wants to revive the old animus to polarise the communities

The Russian authorities see their war in Ukraine as an existential war, while the west sees it as a war of choice

Rahul Gandhi has visited Gujarat only twice in recent months, whereas Modi has used several occasions to address the people of Gujarat and Kejriwal has toured the State a dozen times

It is extremely difficult to return to a diplomatic agreement in which one side has to make additional concessions and return to a previous status quo

Xi Jinping’s trip to Kazakhstan the day before he met Putin in Samarkand sent a strong signal of support to a country that has been increasingly at odds with Russia over the war

President Biden will host Pacific leaders for the first US-Pacific Island Country Summit in Sept end that will be in the style of ASEAN meeting held in May

This month an event of planetary importance will take place. NASA’s DART mission will test the feasibility of redirecting an asteroid.

Along with Nehru, Netaji was the formulator of the concept of national planning, which resulted in the Planning Commission but the Modi government abolished the Planning Commission

Political leaders seek to sharpen differences to consolidate people with particular identities behind them for electoral benefit and the best way to sharpen identities is through the use of sectarian violence

The proposed Electricity Bill is one of many such whips with which the Modi government wants to control the democratically elected State governments.

Regional parties that are in power in different States need to work on building their own distinctive model of governance by putting forth the work that was done in States such as Telangana.

It is clear Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has brought together members states around it like never before in the last two decades.