Why Is The BJP Talking About Stability?

'What should surprise BJP supporters is Modi's call for 'stability' at the manifesto launch, a theme that he and his team members had not touched ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in 2014 and 2019.'......

Stop Displaying 'Army' On Private Vehicles

Displaying 'ARMY' on private transport is an attempt to milk the respect and reverence that the common citizen has for a person in the armed forces, observes Colonel K Thammayya Udupa (retd).By......

If India Becomes Bharat...

By changing the nation's name from India to Bharat, would this landmass overnight lose the emotional and cultural linkage that had been built over generations, centuries and millennia, asks N......

Tamil Nadu's Is Saivism Hinduism Debate

Stalin's personal intervention in the Adheenam row may have contained the avoidable political damage and social tensions at least for now, observes N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Tamil Nadu Chief......

Knocking economics has become a popular sport

'But the world would be much poorer without economics' contribution to understanding how societies function and without economists’ suggestions as to how politicians might improve them. 'And......

India's tea export and the Iran connection

Iran is India’s largest importer of tea in value terms while in terms of volume, it is the second largest after Russia Although tea exports, particularly of the orthodox variety, are on a......

Move forward on infrastructure, not back

If the minister had stuck to his old fiscal deficit target of 3.6 per cent of Gross Domestic Product, he would have had to Budget for a fiscal deficit about Rs 4,500 crore (Rs 45 billion) less than......

More government, more growth?

Given the fetish for good governance in the current political discourse, a question worth answering is, what difference does governance make to growth, rues Abheek Barua 'Good governance' falls in......

Mama-To-Be Serena Steals the Show at Met Gala 2023

Ace tennis player Serena Williams revealed her second pregnancy at the Met Gala 2023 red carpet. Photographs: Kind Courtesy Serena Williams/Instagram Serena wore a fitted black gown with a white......

Bindra to help Delhi HC-appointed committee run IOA

IMAGE: Abhinav Bindra along with Anju Bobby George and Bombayla Devi Laishram will assist the three-member Committee of Administrators which will take over the affairs of the Indian Olympic......

My Daughter Mithali Raj

'From the beginning (I have told her) "Whatever it may be -- you are losing or winning -- on the ground you're not going to cry!" She never cried.''"I don't want you to project that you are a......