The Election Commission, the bureaucrats allege, is suffering from a credibility crisis which endangers the integrity of the electoral process.
'A power that works for development, peace and international understanding, in its own interest and in that of its friends and partners abroad. Asia is not Europe and our indigenous strategic cultures are strong and lasting'
From a state of practically no analysis, we have gravitated to one of a plethora of analysis. Analysis for analysis sake without orienting it towards action has become the name of the game.
The foreign secretary on President Zardari's desire to restart the Composite Dialogue and Obama's talk of constructive diplomacy: 'We want to see credible action against the infrastructure of terrorism in Pakistan. We want to see the perpetrators bro
Briefing by Foreign Secretary on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's forthcoming visit to London for G-20 Financial Summit
The Foreign Secretary directly names Pakistan's intelligence agency for Kabul embassy and Mumbai attacks. "Two months after the Mumbai attacks, and one month after we presented a dossier of evidence linking the attacks to elements in Pakistan, we sti
The foreign secretary talks tough: 'It is hard to believe that something of this scale that took so long in the preparation, and of this nature which amounts really to a commando attack, could occur without anybody anywhere in the establishment knowi
Nuclear apartheid? 'What President Bush and Prime Minister have done is essentially work for the liberation of India ... we look at this as the liberation Act of 2006 and 2007 for India's civil nuclear power effort'
India makes much of the joint declaration which says 'international civilian nuclear cooperation should be advanced through innovative and forward-looking approaches' taking it as a tacit Chinese OK when the India-US nuke deal comes to the NSG.
'What we say is that there are elements in Pakistan, and we do not qualify this, there are elements in Pakistan which have been involved in not just assisting but inciting terrorism in India. Who controls, how much control, that is not for us to say'
'We have not changed our position on the issue of terrorism, on how we think it should dealt with. It is a scourge. You cannot expect me to characterize the government of India's position in the manner that any private commentator does...'
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.