Guest Column

Today, I tried to buy a few bananas at a convenience store. The cashier wouldn’t let me pay for the bananas as they were heavily spotted, and he explained that...

“After me, the deluge.” Madame de Pompadour, the profligate mistress of French monarch Louis XV, is supposed to have said in casual indifference to the suffering of people due to...

How good is your memory? If I could make one wish that would turn true, I would wish for good health. If I was granted an extra wish as a...

Minerals are one of the most important natural resources. They are being mined and utilised to meet our increasing needs for energy, metals and alloys, cement, refractories, pigments, inorganic chemicals...

They were the last to lay arms and the first to raise them against the British. The Sikhs of Punjab have not figured prominently in the galaxy of freedom fighters,...

The sudden turn of events in Bihar seems to have galvanised anti-BJP forces in the country. With Nitish Kumar, whose U-turns could soon become part of India’s political folklore, taking...

Trollocracy. Some call it the anarchist's utopia. A few would prefer the word dystopia. But everything in the universe is a matter of perception, isn't it? Actually it's democracy, post-modern...

Although Mahatma Gandhi led the non-violent independence movement, he didn’t join the government, even though he was the tallest leader of the Congress party. Just like he kept his distance...

During our training in the Indian Forest College (IFC), Dehradun, we were on East India Tour in January-February of 1983. While camping at Varanasi, we got a message from IFC...

Both of them hail from the same state, are from the backward class, both are products of the JP Movement, they have together thrived on Mandal politics and both follow...