NEW DELHI, June 3 -- Recently, I watched a TED Talk by Kathryn Schulz, an author and public speaker claiming to be the world's leading "wrongologist." Her talk was about the value of being wrong; her ... Read More
NEW DELHI, June 3 -- The Supreme Court on Friday, May 24, refused to direct the Election Commission of India to publish the booth-wise numbers of voter turnout and upload copies of Form 17C (which ref... Read More
NEW DELHI, June 3 -- June 5 is annually marked as 'World Environment Day,' an observance followed over the past five decades since 1973 under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Programme. The... Read More
NEW DELHI, June 3 -- At the end of an unprecedentedly long, dragging and tiresome election schedule during a gruelling summer, the people of India eagerly await the results on June 4. The rhetoric of ... Read More
NEW DELHI, June 3 -- Democracy is a system of society won after long and intense struggles. The preceding society mainly had kingdoms. A typical kingdom was an alliance between the feudal lord-king an... Read More
NEW DELHI, June 3 -- The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, was released three years after my birth and holds the distinction of being the first movie I watched in a theatre. This film, i... Read More
NEW DELHI, June 3 -- Modi's outlandish assertions have been making headlines and eliciting waves of disbelief for some time now. His most recent claim was that MK Gandhi was an obscure figure until th... Read More
NEW DELHI, May 27 -- We have been watching our foreign minister, with a serious, unsmiling, professional face, meet world leaders and have our newspapers report how he's told some world leader off or ... Read More
NEW DELHI, May 27 -- Imagine a world where everyone, regardless of their financial status, can access quality healthcare without burdening their pockets. This vision, embodied by the Affordable Health... Read More
NEW DELHI, May 27 -- "Name an insignificant piece of straw as mother-in-law and see how it frolics and frisks," so goes an old Tamil adage. It thoughtfully conveys the power a mother-in-law enjoys in ... Read More