Navjot Singh Sidhu: An Optimist or a Parochial Sub- Nationalist?
Given shared ancestry and blood lines, common language and habits and cultural affinities, the Pakistanis are unable to separate themselves from India and create...
How Community participation influences National Health Mission (NHM)
Launched in 2005, NRHM ensures community partnership in making health systems efficient, need based and accountable. Community partnership has been institutionalized from the village...
R.N. Ravi: The Governor and his Government of Tamil Nadu
The tussle between Governor and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu is becoming murkier day by day. The latest in the series is Governor’s walk...
Season of Yatras in Indian Politics
The Sanskrit word Yatra (यात्रा) simply means journey or travel. Traditionally, Yatra meant religious pilgrimage journeys to Char Dham (four abodes) to four pilgrimage sites...
The Sordid Saga of Indian Baba
Call them the spiritual gurus or thugs, the fact remains that the babagiri in India is today mired in obnoxious controversy. There is a long list...
‘Swadeshi’, Globalisation and ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’: Why India Fails to Learn...
To an average Indian, the very mention of the word ‘Swadeshi’ reminds of India’s independence movement and nationalistic leaders like Mahatma Gandhi; courtesy collective...
Kabir Singh: Bollywood Reinforcing Inequality, Non-Egalitarian Aspects of Indian Culture
These are prime examples to explain how Bollywood reinforces non-egalitarian aspects of Indian culture because if a majority of a theatre audience laughs at...
Sabrimala Temple: Are Menstruating Women Any Threat to Celibate Gods?
It is well documented in the scientific literature that taboos and myths about menstruation impact on girls’ and women’s mental health. The current Sabrimala...
The Offensive Verse from Tulsi Das’s Ramcharitmanas must be deleted
Swami Prasad Maurya, a leader of Samajwadi Party of Uttar Pradesh who champions the cause of backward classes, has demanded the deletion of "insulting...
Taliban: Has America Lost to China in Afghanistan?
How do we explain utter surrender of 300,000 strong Afghan Army fully trained and militarily equipped by US before ‘’volunteer’’ force of 50,000 strong...
