India's daughters are still treated as someone else's property, burdened by patriarchy, denied autonomy and forced to surrender independence. Rahul Gandhi's women-only gathering in Pune challenged thi

If changing the Constitution is difficult, changing the electorate may prove easier. SIR's mass deletions raise the disturbing possibility that Hindutva's route to a Hindu Rashtra may run not through

This writer must admit to a vested interest in this story, as the Election Commission office in New Delhi erased his wife from the national capital territory's electoral rolls, and restored it only af

Reservation is not charity; it is a constitutional instrument of social justice. But leaving sanctioned posts vacant, replacing permanent employment with contracts and privatising public institutions

Children do not always need another lecture, correction or punishment. Sometimes they need an adult willing to listen beneath the behaviour and discover the unmet need. The language we use can rebuild

A 7.8 per cent GDP growth rate makes for an impressive headline. But GDP does not pay the rent, buy food or protect a worker from illness or unemployment. The country's growth remains incomplete until

He may speak of purity and pollution, tradition and order, custom and inherited authority.

To commemorate this historic occasion, the Departments of History, Sociology and Political Science organised a one-day state-level seminar in collaboration with the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQ

Gentlemen, before telling women to stay at home, remember that the doctor saving your life, the judge protecting your rights, or the pilot flying your plane may be a woman.