Cover Stories

Burying the Rights

She lay on the pyre, but her parents couldn’t cry over her body. Her mortal remains were consigned to flames, but they could not perform the last rituals for her.

Dr Suresh Mathew Dr Suresh Mathew
05 Oct 2020

NATIONAL SHAME: No end to this darkness

Almost a year back, talking to a television news channel, Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh made a tall claim

V. Kumara Swamy V. Kumara Swamy
05 Oct 2020

Articles

On March 9, 1954, when the famous journalist Edward R Murrow exposed the then junior senator from Wisconsin -- Senator Joesph McCarthy,

Rohit Wellington Rohit Wellington
05 Oct 2020

Dear Yogi Adityanath Ji, When you became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in March 2017, I likened it to Confucius coming to power in China in 500 BC.

A. J. Philip A. J. Philip
05 Oct 2020

September 30, 2020 will go down in the annals of Indian history as one of the darkest days because of two reasons.

Jacob Peenikaparambil Jacob Peenikaparambil
05 Oct 2020

The Nirbhaya incident in 2012 was followed by spontaneous nation-wide (also world-wide) protests, candle light marches, rallies and meetings etc.

M L Satyan M L Satyan
05 Oct 2020

The judgement acquitting the 32 accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case is an absolute shocker.

Albert Thyrniang Albert Thyrniang
05 Oct 2020

CIVICUS is the well-known global alliance of civil society organisations that strives to promote marginalised voices specifically in the Global South;

Cedric Prakash Cedric Prakash
05 Oct 2020

In the mainstream media’s obsession with the alleged suicide or murder of a Bollywood actor, which has degenerated into targeting women actors

A. J. Philip A. J. Philip
05 Oct 2020

Although, Father of our Nation succeeded in casting out the foreign invaders from our country, His efforts to integrate leprosy patients

Manoj Varghese Manoj Varghese
05 Oct 2020

Mahatma Gandhi, who is widely honored and internationally acclaimed as the Father of the Indian nation, is irrelevant today!

P. A. Chacko P. A. Chacko
05 Oct 2020

Ironically Indians manifest their patriotism on 26th January, 15th August and during the cricket match between India and Pakistan

Varghese Alengaden Varghese Alengaden
05 Oct 2020

When James Mill periodized the Indian History into Hindu Period, Muslim Period and British period, he not only gave the tool to British to pursue their policy of ‘divide and rule’

Ram Puniyani Ram Puniyani
05 Oct 2020

On September 26, Mysuru City Police, acting on a tip off, raided a private hotel where a suspected fake University had organised a ceremony to confer honorary doctorates and arrested three persons.

Aarti Aarti
05 Oct 2020

The newspaper boy, clutching his newspapers like diamonds in his hand, shouted, “Vaccine found! Vaccine available!” And people hearing him at the railway station and street outside

Robert Clements Robert Clements
05 Oct 2020