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Feb 11, 2019
Lords of the ring
Not since the days of Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis and Riddick Bowe has heavyweight boxing grabbed the kind of mind space as it does now. -
Feb 09, 2019
Read India must come before Skill India
The recently released Annual Status of Education Report, India’s largest NGO-run yearly survey, paints a distressing picture of basic reading and arithmetic abilities of students: with 25 per cent of students completing Class 8 without any reading competency, and over 50 per cent unable to even divide numbers. -
Feb 09, 2019
Cults, religious sects are not a thing of the past
The tragic and inglorious end of Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple, Osho’s Rajneeshpuram, Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo and other such associations across the world by no means implies that cults are a thing of the past -
Feb 09, 2019
Sanatan Sanstha: A Hypnotic Attraction
The secretive organisation set up by hypnotherapist Jayant Balaji Athavale has been accused of serious crimes like murder and bomb blasts but remains popular among the youth for its ideology -
Feb 09, 2019
Collegium has flaws, but that’s the cost of judicial independence
While there can be no getting away from the truth of these criticisms, the question we need to ask ourselves is whether they mean that the collegium system should be done away with? -
Feb 09, 2019
Collegium has to go, and it is just a matter of time before it does
The question whether the Supreme Court collegium should be dropped as a mechanism for appointing higher court judges has become redundant. Every day that passes points to this opaque process being completely incongruous with the democratic ideals of transparency and accountability that India aspires to. -
Feb 09, 2019
An Idea Eternal: The Billion Interpretations of Draupadi
Her character was shaped on the anvil of dharma by kings and rishis, executed by lesser men, honed by desire, and cheated by her own -
Feb 09, 2019
Where RSS Men Love Their Pork
The RSS and its Hindutva affiliates are making deep inroads into the many tribes and ethnic communities that make up the Northeast by trying to hoist, at least, 109 existing indigenous faiths in a strategic bid to counter evangelical Christianity. -
Feb 09, 2019
Lines drawn for Didi of all battles in West Bengal
There was both an intended and unintended consequence of Mamata Banerjee’s curious dharna against the CBI’s attempt to question the Kolkata Police Commissioner in connection with the Saradha scam. -
Feb 09, 2019
Tigress by the Tail
Nowadays, the people of Bengal want to hear news about jobs and are loath to follow the antics of the CBI, Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
