News: Opinions and Editorials

Subtlety resides in the subliminal private garden of every person.

During the 1960s when the American Civil Rights movement entered a militant phase, there was a lot of downgrading of old idols as having been too subservient to the White majority.

Abu Azmi was perfectly entitled to take oath as a legislator in Hindi which is our national language.

Every time I go to a country that used to be way behind India and is now way ahead, gloomy thoughts fill my head and as a responsible columnist I feel it my duty to share them with you.

The UN designated November 19 as World Toilet Day some 20 years ago but nobody in India appeared to have paid much notice to it until a toilet-cleaning powder started advertising it on radio this year.

PARUL: Unlikely Hero, written by your wife Nandita Puri, has created quite a stir and certain portions of the book have annoyed you.

Campaigning for the Jharkhand assembly elections has picked up pace, with voting in the five-phase schedule beginning on November 25. The Congress- and BJP-led alliances have released manifestos promising everything from cheap foodgrain to job creation.

Unusually but, and I hope you agree with me, justifiably, this edition of the column shifts its focus beyond what was on news TV. We look at a section of news TV audience.

The south-western border districts of Bengal, where Maoists are fast gaining ground, were until recently, unquestionable strongholds of the ruling Left.

Crises precipitate summits and summits usually spew a bunch of banalities. 2009 witnessed several summits — the G-8, a few G-20s with different levels of government representation, and a just-concluded World Summit on Food Security, convened by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome.