GMR fiasco: What India needs to learn from it?
byThe GMR fiasco has rung danger bells to Indian ears. Maldives government took control of the Male International Airport from the Indian company GMR…
Opinion
Dowry System: Even education isn’t of much help
bySwapna laid in the bed of Government hospital recuperating the burnt marks on her body. She refuses to speak with anybody. A regular girl…
Anthropocene Unfolding
byWe can’t put a date on when geological epochs begin or end. But to say that Anthropocene began circa 19th/20th century would be reasonable;…
Revisiting a historic Ayodhya – secular and diverse
byNew Delhi: A 16th century historical work tells of an Afghan army which went out of Ayodhya – which was controlled by local chiefs –…
Fair to women and East Asians (The Funny Side) Moustaches wars not
byPicture the scene. A banker, reluctant to give out a large cash loan to a desperate man, asks: “But do you have any valuable…
Has the stock market revived for an appetite of fresh IPOs
byThe Sensex stocks have outperformed the new issues on the bourse in the past two years but now there seems a revival of the…
Mumbai riots 1992-93: The days that changed the city
byMumbai: It was a rather cool evening in the second week of December 1992 when I was permitted to leave early – to rush from…
Rubbing it in, social media the trouble maker
byWas social media the powerful game-changer behind the Egypt Uprising, Arab Spring, and exodus of North Eastern residents from Bangalore? Is it to blame…
In the eye of climate change, Himalayan badlands
byHigher temperatures are being recorded in Himalayan altitudes which had not seen the mercury rise so much before. Changes in temperature zones are causing…
Slip, slidin’ away: it’s skating season in Shimla
byShimla: A red balloon was today tethered to the roof of the British-era municipal corporation building for the first time this season, signalling as it…