Congress leader and former diplomat Mani Shankar Aiyar called the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) of yore an "upper caste" service, which he claimed is becoming more democratic now with the flavour of......
The judiciary, the police, the lawyers and the public will have to know the new laws. It will also endanger settled jurisprudence on the old laws and open up all sorts of minor and major problems......
Debates on changing the name of India to Bharat continue to spark a crisis of identity without answering moot questions that stare us in the face.Ramesh Menon asks a few of those questions that do......
While acknowledging Shivaji's naval contributions, questions are being raised about the inadequate acknowledgement of Chola sea-power in southern Tamil Nadu, which dates back by a few centuries,......
Will Indian democracy benefit from the potential that Shashi Tharoor stores in his mind, spirit and intellect?Or will it be the saga of another leader who promised much but delivered too little,......
Governments in India have used a clause (known in the legal trade as Section 292 of the Indian Penal Code) to curb various attempts to titillate the Indian mind, writes Ajit Balakrishnan. No sooner......
With the benefit of hindsight, it's a great pity that the French, Danish, Dutch and Portuguese held only relatively small swatches of the sub-continent and that the Spanish and Germans never came......
IMAGE: Marcos Alonso celebrates with Cesar Azpilicueta after scoring Chelsea's second goal against Plymouth Argyle in the FA Cup fourth round at Stamford Bridge, London, on Saturday. Photograph:......
'That has always been my ambition -- to take the reader behind the scenes, to the places he was not allowed to visit, but which I had the privilege of entering.'Haresh Pandya remembers Ted Corbett,......