Opinion

Lata Mangeshkar, born Hema Mangeshkar had been given several honorifics –  Nightingale of India, Queen of Melody, and so on, all of them good as descriptions go but none that truly described her. She was phenomenal. Losing her father when she was only thirteen, in 1942, the burden of providing for her three siblings and […]

One thing one can be sure about the wars is that apart from them being the harbingers of death and destruction; they keep on evolving. With the passage of time, most of the wars that started as conventional wars have now evolved into proxy/hybrid wars. One such war that started in 1947 as a conventional […]

In Kashmir, the hijab or the veil was enforced in the 1990s as part of the Islamo-fascist insurgency sprouting in every nook and corner of the Valley punctuated with bomb blasts, grenade attacks, shootouts between security forces and strike calls by secessionist leaders, with civilian killings and targeted assassinations. In the lull between violent incidents, […]

Various opposition-ruled state governments have every right to protest against the Centre’s move to take over unilateral authority to post officers at the Centre, or wherever the Centre pleases. Only, if those regional parties’ point is that India’s federalism is being undermined, they are being hypocritical. If they really valued federalism, they would have stood […]

The run up to elections in Punjab is turning out to be quite interesting. If all the 30% or so dalit voters of Punjab vote for Charanjit Singh Channi then he is likely to lead the Congress party to another sure shot victory. Channi as CM would mean a symbolic end to the already eroding […]