T K ArunThe challenge for the BJP’s opponents is not just to win elections, but to build democracy, combat the ideology of a homogeneous nation, based on an a historical version of Hinduism shorn of diversity and centered on...
Harsh V Pant & Yogesh JoshiOn May 11, 1998, India declared itself a nuclear weapon state by conducting a series of tests in the Thar desert. Under Jawaharlal Nehru and Homi Bhabha, India laid the foundation of an elaborate...
Press ReleaseImagindiaNew Delhi. The Imagindia Institute, a leading think tank, today called upon the world community to discuss immediate arrangements to place Pakistan under the 1945 Trusteeship Council mechanism of the United Nations.“There is a Shakespearean tragedy unfolding in...
Anil TrigunayatIn the wake of unprecedented developments in West Asia especially the demarche and rapprochement by major Gulf powers in recent times, the meeting of National Security Advisers of USA (Jake Sullivan), India (Ajit Doval), and UAE (Sheikh Tahnoun)...
Sandeep ChachraMonarchy, dictatorship, authoritarianism, and despotism, even of the benevolent kind and as a result of democratic elections, are an affront to people’s struggles over the millennia for sovereignty and freedom. However, I must confess to having mixed feelings...
Chandrachur SinghPolitical groups within Delhi University Teachers Association have been manipulating academic appointments to strengthen their cadres.In the season of academic and cultural festivities at the University of Delhi, the news of a young academic Samarveer Singh’s death by suicide at Hindu College has left the academic...
Tikender Singh PanwarThe use of high-density varieties of apple and artificial intelligence (AI) in production, it is widely considered, has benefits such as increased capital investment and mechanization, but it is also causing a major disruption in the industry...
T K ArunWhat should India get out of its G20 presidency, apart, of course, from countless dos all over the country to remind people, with their pomp, posters and streams of visitors from abroad, of India’s global leadership role?In...
Saurabh BishtIntroductionThe issues around, and about, women empowerment and the patriarchal nature of our country have been seeking solutions for a long time. The data from 2011 Census showed the declining Child Sex Ratio (CSR) as a continuous trend...
Dhiraj NayyarTen years ago, when then-prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi promised India bullet trains, he probably did not bargain for the system’s resistance to high speed. The journey from an average speed of 60 kmph to a bullet speed of over 300 kmph...
