Uttarakhand : Small States Not Necessarily Efficiently Governed
byDehra Dun : On November 9 Uttarakhand will celebrate 14 years of its founding, after the hill areas were cut out from Uttar Pradesh…
Blogs
Trishna – Winterbottom’s Take on India’s Tess (Movie Review)
byPicking out Thomas Hardy’s tragic novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles from the Victorian era rural settings and placing it in modern India in Trishna makes the…
Unearthing Black Money – The Hindu Way
bySo we have come full circle again – the list of holders of foreign accounts which had been lying with the government for three…
The Arab Springs in India
byMohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, set himself on fire in December of 2010. Enraged by confiscation of his meagre goods as a street…
Democratic dividend can bridge the rural urban divide
byTechnological advancement has made development of all sections of society possible but here in India, the rich-poor divide is only widening, fuelling the traditional…
Rule of Law? Really?
byIts fashionable to begin articles these days with a disclaimer (it makes one appear more profound), so let me confess too. I am no…
Cricket – a money hungry beast
byIt is already being called as Cricket’s day of shame. The West Indies’ decision to cut short their tour to India on the back…
Tihar Regency
byThis is the century of Private Capital. While governments involve themselves in waging wars and making life as difficult as possible for their citizens…
Congress – Reform or Perish
byA political party must be endearing. It should have the aptitude to grasp the prevailing mood of the populace and frame its strategy accordingly….
Himachal Pradesh University plagued by students politics, financial crisis
byStudents’ politics in Himachal is in turmoil and so is the very foundation of Himachal Pradesh University, the oldest university of the state that…