Opinion

The fight is not against Israeli ‘atrocities’ or ‘highhandedness’ but against the very existence of Israel. The real battle is against the humanistic, democratic world order by those pursuing authoritarian ethics of both Godless and God-fearing ideologies

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s castigation for merely being a Hindu ought to be a sign that the gap between India and Pakistan is now one too wide to bridge

The pictures of people running on Kabul Airport to flee the Taliban rule are still very much alive in the minds of the people. Isn’t allowing Afghanistan to continue as an international cricket-playing nation legitimising the Taliban rule in Afghanistan?

Punjab and Haryana present two starkly different examples of how they have tackled stubble burning. While Haryana has managed to curb 38% of stubble burning incidents, Punjab’s initial gains are rapidly coming undone with farm fires back on the rise in No...

The Men in Blue deserve to win the ICC Cricket Men’s World Cup. In fact, such has been their dominance that any other outcome will surprise the entire cricketing world

The real concept of an ambulance is missing in India. Worse, the ambulances are inadequately equipped, and they do not have trained Emergency Medical Technicians

Many brave officers and men have laid down the supreme sacrifice of their lives in the defence of the nation. We as Indians, must always remember these soldiers in all festivals and pray to the God Almighty to bestow on their families good health, happine...

Radha, in Mehboob Khan’s ‘Mother India’, is the role model of the chaste, strong, just, hardworking woman for Bollywood screen women to emulate. Let us visit a few new-age Radhas with similar fortitude in different eras

If Canada had respected India’s concerns, voiced for decades, and disallowed Khalistani radicals from using Canadian soil to mount anti-Indian activities, matters would not have deteriorated so much

We need more voices demanding why there are no protests unequivocally condemning the brutal Hamas attacks, taking of hostages, and parading the captives on the streets of Gaza

Joya Chatterji’s formidable but deeply flawed account of 20th-century India is a salutary reminder of the external impact of Western intellectual life, books, universities, journals, think tanks and its media and newspaper editorial pages

In the last decade and a half, Gaza has acted as a launching pad for several serious attacks on Israel like in 2009 and 2014, leading to major hostilities. Hamas, unless removed, will continue to be a bugbear for Israel

Noble Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi is a great message to the world that it’s not the job of women alone but the world’s to stand together and be with the cause of women’s rights as human rights

After casting aspersions on India, Trudeau now wants to discuss things behind closed doors. India, however, stands unyielding. It’s a nation that cannot be pushed around at will, and its strategic clout resonates far beyond its borders

In a resounding global show of support, Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. However, this honour was met with vehement opposition from China, a nation notorious for its disregard of human rights and political reform advocates

The Anglosphere still nurses its colonial hangover, believing that the onus is on former subjects to prove its wild allegations right, to never raise their voice, and to not embarrass it publicly. India is guilty of shattering all three expectations and m...