Official day, calendar are marked by date, times fixed by astrologers who have confidence of paranoid people in power.

The terror index quantifies human intent, action and agony, but the study of terrorism is a useful way to tackle it.

As in India, exploitation of mineral resources in Pakistan is complicated, out of control via ownership, policy issue.

Political class has gradually turned into virtual caste, most privileged & only challenged by their siblings, near kin

Celebrated only a decade ago as India’s city of the future, Bangalore is now sinking under heaps of garbage.

Does the presence of a TV camera or the promise of wide exposure in itself stimulate the performance of violent acts?

The civilising project, such as renaming landmarks like Shadman Chowk, often erases much more than it builds.

I think that the Right to Information Act...enable(s) us to fulfil to a considerable degree, Bapu’s dream...

Caste is losing its grip over dalits because India is industrialising, urbanising and modernising.

Jairam Ramesh, speaks for a nation of Gandhian imagination when he says that India needs more toilets than temples.