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A PIL for Syama Prasad Mookerjee

By Shantanu Guha Ray New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) A monk turned lawyer's public interest litigation (PIL) in Calcutta High Court to seek reasons behind...

An ‘inconvenient truth’: Yogendra Yadav and the changing face of intellectual freedom

By Heeraman Tiwari New Delhi, June 28: In the famous film, Fiddler on the Roof, where Tevye (played by Chaim Topol), a poor Jewish farmer...

Happiness is a Warm Gun: the Myth of Gun Control in America

By Shivaji Sengupta Greek statues, with bullet-holes for eyes Blinded as Eros, with surprise, Lover and loved...(Lawrence Durrell) Yes, it has happened again and again and again...This time...

Unfazed PM spells out concrete plan for sustained supply of vaccine

By J.V. Lakshmana Rao Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems closely fitting into Lord Krishna’s definition of “karma yogi.” He has not reveled on...

People should not let the country down

BY D.C. PATHAK The deadly second wave of Covid-19 has provoked an intense public debate and anger on the reasons why it was allowed to...

The President’s Proposed Infrastructure Bill: What Does It Mean for America?

By Shivaji Sengupta The well known political newsletter from Washington D.C., The Hill , defines infrastructure as the "the basic physical and organizational structures and...

Loyalty and Trump Presidency

By Dr. Dinker Raval During Trump’s presidency two words, “loyalty” and “firing”, became familiar and famous. Slight display of the lack of personal loyalty...

China’s intent to study bioweapons reopens Covid origin controversy

By Atul Aneja New Delhi, May 11: Recent findings in a report in an Australian daily has yet again reinforced the call that international investigators...

India in the grip of Coronavirus; all adults to get vaccinated

By J.V. Lakshmana Rao The current flood of reports about the second wave of Covid-19 cases in India is alarming and even scary. What looked...

From shaping the news to slanting it: the culture of ‘Narratives’ in America...

By Shivaji Sengupta At first there was the Word. Genesis I, i. Seems madam! Nay, it is. I know not seems. Shakespeare. Hamlet. I, ii. Why is it that...