Post Osama US Enemies
Will Iran and China also be in America's hit list post Osama?
Dr. Singh's trump card
There are two facets to India's journey under Manmohan Singh's leadership for the last two years in his second term. On one hand, the economy has been growing robustly; savings, expenditure, investment and trade have been increasing exponentially.
Not fair for the fairer sex
In an era when women are leaving no stone unturned to prove their mettle, be it to bring social changes or initiate political turmoil, there are still many places where the ‘fairer sex’ has to struggle to get their due rights.
Life beyond Caste system
Last month, the Supreme Court (SC) of India declared Khap panchayats
illegal and asked the authorities to stamp them out.
World splits over oil
A hundred conspiracy theorists must have given a thousand different reasons as to why oil prices have been rising since decades.
Children pay for our Peril!
Missing children is a worldwide phenomenon, but is most alarming in India. Hunger, poverty, lack of adequate shelter, lack of education and other social sector paucities are the biggest contributors for this phenomenon.
Monitoring TV content
"Sex sells†is a popular, tried and tested maxim in the reel world. No wonder then that this concept has quite openly sneaked into our drawing rooms through the quintessential idiot box.
Foreign policy dilemma
The world may have shifted from being unipolar to multipolar in terms of power distribution, but America's clout is still the determining factor in many nations' foreign policy even vis-a-vis their close neighbours.
Unused, misused & abused
Misuse of funds is a common phenomenon in India. However, the even bigger one is under-utilisation of funds. Every year during the budget session, the states and their respective ministers go ga-ga over allocations, – all of them demanding a raise in the sum of funds allocated to their respective ministries.
Of nose cuts and shame
It's raining trouble for Obama and his administration. This time the reason being Obama declaring Libya a no-fly-zone and allowing military intervention to free the country from the 'dictatorship' of Muammar Gaddafi.
Is beauty the priority?
Scottish-born American author, John Muir once said “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.â€
The last samurai
The recent earthquake that struck Japan on 11th March 2011 with 9.0 magnitude on the Richter scale and the subsequent 33 feet high tsunami has not only threatened Japan, but also the world more than ever before.
The relevance of economics
Intricate economic nuances often prove to have a lot of relevance in life. Almost every decision making process undergoes the journey of the harsh economic principles.
Tears of the sun: Made in USA
The fact that US pump arms and weapons in numerous conflict-riddled zones across the world for their own strategic and diplomatic purposes is known to all.
Indians unsafe abroad
India has usually been soft when it comes to negotiations with terrorists or kidnappers. Be it during the LTTE days, when kidnapping of Indians in Sri Lanka was common for hefty ransom, or be it plane hijackings by terrorists, either our government h
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
