The international community and Mali must focus on the gains made at the Brussels meet to push for development, political dialogue and democracy On January 23, 2013, in The Hindu (Op-Ed, “United against the terrorist threat”), we had outlined the strate
The system of choosing judges should be preceded by a national debate and discussion The law treats the rich and the poor, the man and the woman, the mountain and the valley, all on an equal footing. But the legal system can be operated only if lawyers
Translated and edited excerpts of the intervention made by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during the debate on the confidence motion moved and adopted by the Bihar legislative assembly on Wednesday Why did things come to such a pass? Today they [the
With a near majority in the Bihar legislature, there was never any doubt that Nitish Kumar would sail through the confidence vote post the Janata Dal (United)’s split with the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Congress chose to back the Chief Minister, obviousl
There is not much to celebrate in the Taliban’s announcement finally that it is prepared to hold talks with the Afghan government, and plenty to be wary about. The announcement came with the opening of a Taliban office in the Qatar capital Doha, which wil
In the forthcoming Strategic Dialogue, India and the U.S. should focus on their long-term interests to take the bilateral relationship forward The impression is now widespread that India-America relations are on a plateau, if not in the doldrums. This w
“As former British Prime Minister George Canning once quipped, you can prove anything by statistics except the truth. Indeed, one can find illustrative examples of any phenomenon, however rare, if a rigorous statistical analysis is undertaken across the g
This is not to claim or argue that jugaad is all good quality, but also to emphasise in the same breath that something is not poor just because it is jugaad. It is likely this article will not be read in any other way, but I want to make it ...
Beneath the chaotic events that have convulsed the country in recent months is the unmistakeable undertow of election year politics Bangladesh’s War Crimes Tribunal (WCT), set up to try Bengalis who committed war crimes along with the Pakistan Army duri
