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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


Maharashtra: Unkept promises in electoral politics amount to immorality; but who cares?

Hyderabad, March 12 -- When a political party or an alliance wins an election on the strength of a promise and does not deliver on it once elected to power, it amounts to short-changing the voters. It... Read More


Who was he? Asks Central Censor Board exposing its shameful ignorance aboutNamdeo Dhasal

Hyderabad, March 3 -- "Who is he? We don't know about him." That is what the unnamed officials of the Central Board of Film Certification reportedly said when denying clearance to a crowd-funded Marat... Read More


Given the debacle in Delhi, is INDIA left with any future?

Hyderabad, Feb. 12 -- There are too many questions regarding the I.N.D.I Alliance. Was the alliance for all times to come? Or till such time the Bharatiya Janata Party was defeated? Or was it limited ... Read More