Old age homes for the cash-rich have been around in some Indian cities for quite a while, but the concept has only now arrived in Kerala, a state where those over 60 make up 12.6 per cent of of the population. The national average is 8.6 per cent....
Malala, Mexico, murder mystery, MI5, movies, music, milk of various kinds, hurrying mothers pushing buggies and herding toddlers -- that's Oxfordshire in Merry Ol' England for you this summer....
When he was born in Kandy in Sri Lanka, perhaps none would have even remotely imagined that M.G. Ramachandran, or MGR, would overcome the tag of his Malayali origin and the grinding poverty he faced in childhood to one day become a colossus in Tamil Nadu. R. Kannan's well-researched book does full justice to the extraordinary story of a remarkable man whose ...
In the landmark judgment on the right to privacy, which the Supreme Court declared was a fundamental right, Chief Justice J.S. Khehar, Justice R.K. Agrawal, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice S. Abdul Nazeer made some telling observations:...
The Supreme Court which by a 3:2 majority decision struck down triple talaq as "unconstitutional", "arbitrary" and "not part of Islam", had differing arguments by the judges. ...
President Donald Trump has signaled an open-ended involvement without an identifiable end game by announcing a conditions-based approach instead of a time-based approach to the Afghan war. ...
True freedom is equal access to everything in society -- education, jobs, etc, etc. When that is achieved, the prejudices will begin to disappear, but only gradually, not instantaneously. Without having equal access to economic betterment all these words about caste being an evil practice or we should t...
Anxiety is writ large on the faces of over 3,800 Rohingya Muslims living in this city amid reports that the Indian government is planning to deport them. They say they prefer to die here rather than return to Myanmar, where they face persecution....
A slump in the export of perishable commodities such as fruits and vegetables due to high airfreight charges has prodded the government to explore the cost-effective alternative of water transport to boost the trade and give Indian products an edge over their competitors in the international market....
In its recommendation to NCERT, Shiksha Sanskriti Uthan Nyas, an RSS affiliate asks for removal of English, Urdu and Arabic words, the thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore; extracts from painter M F Husain’s autobiography; references to the Mughal emperors as benevolent, to the BJP as a “Hindu†party., an apology tendered by former prime minister Manmo...
