The Mumbai train accident was avoidable

Hyderabad, June 11 -- The Monday morning deaths of commuters on the Mumbai suburban network were a not so common, freak accident, substantially due to the gap between two sets of tracks being less tha... Read More

Thanks to the court, grassroots democracy is back in Maharashtra

Hyderabad, May 7 -- The Supreme Court has given a leg up to people's representation at the grassroots - normally called the local self-government bodies, from panchayats to huge municipal corporations... Read More

Shouldn't the wheelchair be for all those who need it or should it be for only privileged few?

Hyderabad, April 25 -- One should accompany a physically challenged - that is, disabled - and an elderly person, and notice the hurdles he or she faces in doing things the young and fit elderly do? Fo... Read More

Will the Thackeray cousins dance the tango?

Hyderabad, April 21 -- The Thackeray cousins, the nephew and son of the patriarch, the late Bal Thackeray, have suddenly created waves. Nephew Raj Thackeray has proffered his hand to Uddhav. Uddhav ha... Read More

Opinion: Water water everywhere but not enough to drink-that is world-class Mumbai for you

Hyderabad, April 16 -- Remember, Mumbai is located on the shores of the Arabian Sea. But here is a fact to chew on. When 2,000 licensed water tankers that ply Mumbai city - not the metropolitan regio... Read More

Controversy surrounding 'Phule': Are Indian cinegoers becoming more intolerant?

Hyderabad, April 13 -- There was a Mahatma before Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was given that honorific by Ravindranath Tagore in 1915. Jyotirao Phule, also known as Jyotiba Phule, was bestowed with tha... Read More

Isn't 'Mumbai' a mini-India? Will not the insistence on use of Marathi alone damage the State?

Hyderabad, April 7 -- Though Maharashtra is officially a Marathi-speaking state, has a Marathi majority population, the state government does its business in that language, Marathi, suddenly took the ... Read More

Is Maharashtra too becoming a 'bulldozer state'?

Hyderabad, March 25 -- What Kunal Kamra said the other day and raised a laugh from his audience was nothing new. Uddhav Thackeray and his loyalists, that is those who stayed with him when the Shiv Sen... Read More

Aurangzeb: a 'grave'issue snowballing into a long-time divisive problem

Hyderabad, March 20 -- Two years ago, a lane in New Delhi named after the Mughal ruler, Aurangzeb was changed to Abdul Kalam Lane. It commemorated the late president but did not erase Aurangzeb from t... Read More