India, Dec. 29 -- India is fortunate to have given birth to Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, and Mahatma Gandhi, who inspired generations not only in India but across the world. Apart from thei... Read More
India, Dec. 29 -- In the thundering storm of ignorance and fear, Rose a voice, fierce and clear-Periyar, the seer. A flame against the darkness, a sword against the lie, He challenged the shadows that... Read More
India, Dec. 29 -- I was all of 25 years old and assigned to report on the first Christmas scheduled to be celebrated near the administrative capital at Naharlagun. On Monday, December 25, 1978, the qu... Read More
India, Dec. 29 -- The instruction came the moment I climbed into the van. "Father, go back and change," my brother said, hands on the steering wheel. "Jeans and a T-shirt. Casuals." It wasn't a sugg... Read More
India, Dec. 29 -- I love the national anthem. You do not question it. You stand up, straighten your back, look noble and sing it with more enthusiasm than talent. I have sung it in school halls, dusty... Read More
India, Dec. 22 -- In the second year of his reign, Caesar Augustus decided the world needed to be counted. Every person, every household, registered and taxed-a grand bureaucratic dream of control dre... Read More
India, Dec. 22 -- Let there be Christmas to help us realise that Joseph, together with his young, pregnant wife, had to trudge a long distance to register in Bethlehem because of a Roman decree by Cae... Read More
India, Dec. 22 -- Christmas has become a global festival celebrated not only by Christians but also by people belonging to different religions. While for Christians, Christmas commemorates the birth o... Read More
India, Dec. 22 -- Mahatma Gandhi was never a comfortable figure for the Narendra Modi-led government. His name is invoked, his spectacles are displayed, his statues are garlanded across continents, bu... Read More
India, Dec. 22 -- The Narendra Modi government is soon going to replace the two-decade-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, namely MGNREGA, by a new legislative measure titled "... Read More