Guest Opinion “It did initially feel like a little bit of a hollow statement to make, given the limited nature of our contracting with po...

Guest Opinion Coined in 1958 by the sociologist Micheal Young in his book The Rise of the Meritocracy—describing a dystopian society in w...

Guest Opinion The Supreme Court of India has come to occupy the spotlight in public discourse and consciousness. There is added scrutiny ...

Burning of Manusmriti on 25th December 1927 by Babasaheb Ambedkar inspired a new style of defiance of the Manusmriti. The Manusmriti, lit...

In geopolitics, the closer your ally is to your common adversary, the better it is. The same goes for Vietnam and India. Vietnam is at a ...

Guest Opinion It is two factors which makes democracy desirable even in its worst of times, something every citizen of a democratic setup...

Guest Opinion Hindustan Times I write this piece in memory of Nani Palkhivala, a courtroom genius, on his death anniversary. His substant...

Guest Opinion Mike McQuade for The Atlantic It was not very long ago that I read about American hegemony in my Class 12th Political Scien...

The ancient period of the Indian subcontinent was marked with the writing of rich Sanskrit literature which provides us with an in-depth ...

Guest Opinion Amidst a pandemic where enterprises are struggling to stay afloat, the business of various online streaming platforms is bo...

"If a larger country oppresses a smaller country, I'll stand with the smaller country. If the smaller country has majoritarian religion t...

Since the times of the Romans, Spaniards, Portuguese, the French, the British, the Germans, the Russians, and now the Americans - the Wes...

Guest Opinion As the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) narrowly scraped through in what has been one of the most closely contested elect...

A gram panchayat meeting in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh. Credit: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh A fervour of anxiety and enthusiasm all around, makin...

Republic TV anchor Arnab Goswami on his release from jail on November 11. | PTI Judiciary is considered as the last institution of hope a...

Singapore: When Sarah arrives at the clinic, she removes her veil. “They told me that I can't work here if I wear the Tudung (local Malay...

The world has experienced a sharp rise in social movements in the past few decades. We have seen numerous instances of mass-mobilisation ...

Guest Opinion The conference in New Delhi where Lord Mountbatten (centre) disclosed Britain’s partition plan for India to Nehru and Jinna...

Guest Opinion As Indians, we tend to forget too easily that we wish to forget and relatedly, see the highest constitutional post as a mer...

Guest Opinion As the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc, only a handful of countries managed to get out of it unscathed. With ...