Opinion

‘Another Sort of Freedom’ by Gurcharan Das is the rarest of the rare gems. It is about the fourth aim of moksha, offering an all-natural, non-religious, non-transcendental view of freedom

Drug traffickers and peddlers who would normally face gallows or life imprisonment in most countries, get away in India very lightly on technicalities and procedural lapses of the enforcement agencies

India’s current space sector is valued at approximately $8 billion and has been growing at a rate of about 4 per cent per year, which is higher than the global average of 2 per cent. It is expected to reach $40 billion by 2040

From that turbulent era to the present period witnessing a slow civilisational recovery, the Ram Mandir journey has been epoch-making

Indian athletes at the Asian Para Games, Hangzhou not only re-scripted history but elevated it. 303 athletes — 191 men and 112 women — romped home with 111 medals — 29 gold, 31 silver and 51 bronze

The Congress and Left parties appear to portray Israel as the villain and Hamas as messengers of peace. This political competition in whitewashing Hamas is a cause for concern, as pointed out by Bishop Tharayil

Successive governments in Punjab have opposed the SYL Canal citing they have little ‘surplus’ water to share with neighbouring states. Ironically, Punjab has already been exporting huge quantities of virtual water in the form of rice

Cricket at LA28 would be a game-changer for the sport, especially considering the uncertain future of the longer formats - Tests and One Day Internationals

Why did China pick an Indian web portal to spread misinformation about Indian politics, questioning for example whether Arunachal Pradesh and Kashmir were an integral part of India?

For months, the people of PoJK have been protesting against power cuts and heavy taxes on electricity bills. Until recently, these protests lacked coordination. But that changed after the formation of Jammu Kashmir Joint Action Committee in September

The people of Chhattisgarh are livid over the unending scams that have tumbled out of the state government’s closet. From being in a seemingly good position, the Congress is struggling to resist an imminent defeat

For India to keep looking the other way or, worse, allowing extremist secessionism to flourish either within its borders or on the soil of so-called friendly countries is no longer an option

In the past 40 years, both Conservatives and Liberals have pandered to Khalistani extremists operating on Canadian soil. Justin Trudeau, in that way, has merely pushed the envelope to ‘mainstreamise’ these extremists on a scale not seen before

There is always a near miss and the task before this year’s panel of Booker Prize judges was humongous. In seven months, the panel of judges read an astounding 163 books before zeroing down on the long list of 13. The short list will be announced four day...

India serves to be the best navigator of international complexities in a multilateral world of conflicting national and geopolitical interests. The G20 shows how diplomacy can be done rather than how it has been done, so far

To call Bharat’s G20 presidency an unparalleled success might just be an understatement. Today, when India puts its foot down, the biggest powers of the world fall in line