While the Uttar Pradesh CM may have registered a handsome double-term win, the Oppn — especially the Congress — needs to rethink strategy. Congratulations Yogi ji, it’s a double term for you. Your tactics are unorthodox and no one can steal the credit for your victory,...
Walter Lindner also cautioned against rising fuel prices and inflation. ‘Democracy and freedom have a price, and we are ready to pay it,’ he said. Usually diplomatic sessions are boring, filled with platitudes and full of words like “world peace, rule of law, and co-operation”. So...
Wheat, corn, cooking oil, fertiliser – the crisis is likely to affect all these prices. Have you been thinking that the Ukraine-Russia crisis is distant and doesn’t effect your home? Think again, because the odds may be stacked against you. The recent increase in fuel prices...
As Valentine’s Day approached, I finished another Edward Abbey book. Abbey, a crazy white bearded “desert-rat”, had ensnared me. Possessed with thoughts of a sandy paradise, I set sail for the Thar desert. Two days later, I was on the Jaisalmer-Jodhpur highway, flanked by three fellow...
The evolving crisis in Ukraine forces us to rethink the Bosnia-Herzegovina war, which led to redrawing of maps and untold misery on people It was another grey day; heavy artillery had been pounding unarmed and hungry people. The cities were besieged and genocides were being furtively...
As the Ukraine crisis heats up, a conversation with Roman Babushkin, deputy chief of mission (DCM) of the Russian Embassy in India. A long time ago, Nobel Prize-winning philosopher Lord Bertrand Russell was asked advice for future generations. The first bit of his two-part response went...
Still reeling from the Covid-19 crisis, the Indian seed sector is being challenged by another deadly contamination: from Herbicide Tolerant (HT) Bt cotton. Reports from Maharashtra confirm that motivated agents are duping farmers and trying to sabotage the legal cottonseed business by channelling an illegal...
The national capital is imploding and the public medical infrastructure is in a state of intentional ruin. Central hospitals don't even have functional bathrooms, forget oxygen or higher-level care. My cellphone rings at 3:30 am. “Can you come now, my father is in the hospital,” said...
Palanpur: With the coming of the green mango season, Rakesh Tikait spent some time in Gujarat early this month, in an attempt to “seed a revolution”. The battle lines were already drawn before Tikait’s journey to the state — the Gujarat government recently arrested Bharitya Kisan Union leader...
Chautala: A no-confidence motion in Haryana, a farmer revolution growing in their backyard and an ongoing tussle between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress for the state — the Chautala clan have had a lot on their plate over the last few months. Both factions of the clan — Dushyant’s...