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More Sinned Against than Sinning - Scapegoating Rahul Gandhi!

India, Jan. 26 -- Varun Grover, the delightful comic sage, recently had a go at the ugliness, hypocrisy, intolerance and chicanery that are tearing our country apart. His show, "Nothing Makes Sense," ... Read More


The Demeaning Culture of Silence

India, Jan. 26 -- Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, while presenting the Priyadarshini Literary Award to a veteran writer, educationist and literary critic of Kerala, M Leel... Read More


Budget Allocations Leave Religious Minorities Famished and Deprived

India, Jan. 26 -- The Union Budget for 2026-27 is being formatted even as we write, and will be presented on February 1 in the Lok Sabha. The Budget Session of Parliament will commence from January 28... Read More


From Dropouts to Dignity, 100 Years of Caring for Youth

India, Jan. 26 -- The Salesian Province of Kolkata will celebrate its centenary with the presence of the Rector Major of the Salesians, Fr. Fabio Attard, the 11th Successor of Don Bosco, across three ... Read More


Why Only Greenland?

India, Jan. 26 -- The courtroom of the International Court of Justice was unusually quiet that morning. Even the translators had stopped whispering into their microphones. The judge adjusted his glass... Read More


Is Our Country Still a Republic?

India, Jan. 26 -- Every year on January 26, India celebrates Republic Day to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution in 1950. The day symbolises the transformation of India into a sovereign, soci... Read More


Remains of the Republic

India, Jan. 26 -- On Republic Day, we are reminded of the Preamble, yet the lived experience of millions stands in utter incongruity to its text. Article 25 and its companion rights pledge every India... Read More


When Executive Activism Replaces Judicial Activism, the Nation Suffers

India, Jan. 19 -- From 1975 onwards-and more sharply between the early 1990s and 2014-the central democratic worry in India was judicial activism: courts intruding into policy-making and unsettling th... Read More


Not a Pretty Neighbourhood Religious Freedom in South Asia

India, Jan. 19 -- Christians are persecuted in every one of the eight countries in South Asia, but even prominent religious groups, Hindus and Muslims, and smaller groups of Sikhs and Buddhists, also ... Read More


Corporate Takeover of Hospitals: Death Knell for Public Health

India, Jan. 19 -- American Corporate giants Blackstone and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) have been acquiring private hospitals in Kerala on a war footing. If not properly regulated, it will have... Read More