Opinion

By Anu Chitrapu BOSTON--On September 28, 2018, the Supreme Court of India ruled that women of any age should be allowed to visit the Sabarimalai...

By Paul P. Skoutelas Recently, the world learned yet again that inadequate investment in infrastructure—roads, bridges, tunnels, and railways—can have tragic consequences. This time, those consequences...

By Amulya Ganguli The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the two "non-electables", to use Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's term, are...

By Frank F. Islam The US midterm elections will be held on November 6. Many knowledgeable observers are calling these midterms the most important elections...

By Tamanna Punjabi Even as the #Metoo movement turns into a storm in Bollywood and elsewhere, with several women coming forward to talk about predators...

By Gouri Banerjee Visiting New Delhi recently I studied the “saree scene” with a view to buying myself a gorgeous saree for Durga Pooja starting...

By Chitro Neogy In 1957, a man born in Amritsar, Punjab at the turn of the 20th century created history by being the first Asian,...

By Dr. Anant Shukla, MD On a cold, wispy December night in 2014, my high-school friend Jake and I were catching up at a quiet...

By Nilanjana Rakhit Is justice served by publishing an article about a candidate’s election loss rather than helping him to win the election in the...

By Kanan Sachdeva If you ask people, many of them will tell you that they are not afraid of dying so much as they may...