As the world gears up to celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, a pertinent question looms ~ how far have we truly come in achieving gender equality? In India, women have risen to positions of power, yet they continue to battle the deeply entrenched patriarchal mindset that seeks to diminish their contributions and limit their aspirations.
Austria’s newly formed three-party coalition government is an unusual experiment in European politics.
President Donald Trump’s first address to the US Congress in his second term was not just a policy statement ~ it was a declaration of dominance.
Alas, slowly will Tamil perish/As languages of the West flourish.” This was a Tamil poet's fear in the early 20th century.
India’s economic ambitions rest on its ability to foster a generation of entrepreneurs willing to take risks, build industries, and create jobs.
The thickening forest of uplifted arms demanding Azadi threatens, like in Shakespeare's Macbeth, the castle of the Indian democracy.
The streams have dried up. Let alone getting fish and crabs from those streams, we cannot even get sufficient drinking water…
We hear of profound, suggestive mysteries in stray whiffs and then the newspaper report is just a paper packet stuffed with, perhaps, soaps and sanitisers.
As pointed out by the CJI, the Executive could help by sticking to rules and avoiding actions that test the borders of legality and the Legislature could frame laws in a better fashion.
Among the liberal principles enshrined in the Constitution, secularism has come under severe attack in recent times.
