NATIONAL INTEREST

Modi has debunked uncontested old wisdom that foreign and strategic policy must follow broad national consensus despite change in governments....

India’s bane is our easy embrace of mediocrity – from academia and science to business and military power. Sport is...

Irom Sharmila without tubes is of no use to those who built careers around her. But she realised an activist...

India and Pakistan have both followed a consistent policy of talk-talk, fight-fight since the Kashmir insurgency began in 1989. By...

No country can go from zero to hero in Olympic sports. A hundred Indians now feature in the top-25 and...

Nitish Kumar confirms the rising phenomenon of maximum populism in Indian politics: a consensus paving the road to disaster What...

There is scientific evidence now to show how caste has acquired clear racist characteristics and it is cause for alarm....

Arvind Kejriwal may feel victimised by the Modi government but he is revelling in it too much, risking a constitutional...

Why BJP can’t realize its dream of uniting with culture (Hindutva) what sociology (caste) divided All national parties claim to...

New turn reveals our ugliest underside: it’s not even about Kashmiri territory or Kashmiris, India or Pakistan. It’s now Hindu...

Zakir Naik, a gentle, rock-star televangelist, is dangerous as young Muslims can be swayed by his fundamentalist interpretations of Islam...

A big-hearted leader finds talent wherever available and packs his team with it. Narendra Modi is yet to do this...