opinion - Page 7

By Amir Suhail Wani There were times when people travelled for months together just to learn a single fact, a single sentence, a single poem or a single verse. Those journeys were

By SHABBIR AARIZ Addressing India Today conclave 2019, Prime Minister Modi said that the situation would have been different, had the government procured Rafael jets and according to him, the whole nation

By Sevanti Ninan In 2014, media issues did not figure in the election manifestos of the Congress, the BJP or the CPI(M). But today the media and internet so overwhelm the public

By Ajaz Ashraf The desire to play the role of elderly statesman surfaces in Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani every time he feels slighted or thinks

By Bilal Ahmad Dar Live stock is an important sector in agriculture. It represents 60 per cent of agricultural value added and contributes 11 per cent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

By Bhushan Parimoo It appears that the thaw has just set in within the deliverance apparatus of the Social Forestry. Very minute and feeble softening yet gives sign of hope. A matter

By Shiv Visvanathan Manifestos are generally acts of defiance and hope, which combine wishful thinking with critique. Manifestos have created world views and lived on as political and literary classics. The Congress

By Khaled Ahmed Pakistan protested to India when the alleged destroyers of the 2007 Samjhauta Express train — which killed 42 Pakistanis going home after visiting India — were allowed to walk

By ASHUTOSH Machiavelli was not a great thinker. He was not in the same league as Plato, Aristotle, Karl Marx, Immanuel Kant or Shankaracharya. He was not a man for epistemology. He

By Ranjona Banerji As you read through this book, you realise just how overdue it is. We talk a lot in India, and about several uncomfortable issues these days, not just cricket