Editorials

The following reply from the Bombay Government is received by Sir M.B. Chaubal, Chairman, Provisional Governing Body, Nutan Maharashtra Vidya Prasarak Mandal: The Secretary to Government says: I am directed to your representation, dated the 9th September, 1918, on the subject of the establishment at Talegaon Dabhade in the Poona …

The BJP is giving up seats it won in Bihar to JD(U), a strategy that is not without its risks It is easier to reach agreements in principle than to sign up on the specifics, but both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Dal (United) overcame a major hurdle …

President Sirisena’s actions have putSri Lankan democracy in peril Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to withdraw his faction from the ruling coalition and replace Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has plunged the country into a political crisis. This was further complicated, a day later, by …

Instant online opinions impoverish our public sphere Social media activists seem to have different notions about corrective action, justice and fairness. They want retribution, revenge and punishment rather than non-punitive course correction, which is the essential function of a news ombudsman. A news ombudsman adopts a light-touch approach to visibly …

Businesses are facing up to the possibility of the U.K. leaving the EU without a final deal in hand The moment when Britain would officially exit the European Union (EU) is still some months away — 11 p.m. local time on March 29, 2019 — but the tremors are being …

When protesters let their ego overcome their faith, they are no longer true disciples of their god Every day we see people brazenly driving through red lights, breaking queues with impunity or getting their way through bribes. Each time I see this, I despair, but then these people invoke a …

The Supreme Court’s actions in the CBI case underline the gravity of the institutional crisis The Supreme Court, on Friday, stepped into the institutional crisis engineered by the “forcible transfer” of the Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) earlier in the week. Given the patent illegality of the …

A fermented batter of ground rice and lentils, steamed in little circular moulds, served with a vegetable stew. Well, a decade ago, it was simply the idli. That is how fancy we have become. Every little simple thing has been turned into bizarre, out-of-this-world articles, making everyday life more complicated, …

I heard the first rumblings a decade ago. My siesta was rudely ended by a crash and screech. When I stepped on to the balcony to find the source of the commotion, I came face to face with the gigantic paws of what is called khooni panja in local parlance. …

I first recited St. Francis of Assisi’s poignant prayer (a.k.a. the Peace Prayer) sincerely but without much thought as a teenager at the St. Francis Junior College in Secunderabad. It fell to a brave man to bring alive for me its true meaning, over three decades later. The Hindu temple …