India has constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and by some measures the biggest and most diverse media industry in the world. But journalists here say they are increasingly facing…
Without a Gandhi at the top, India’s Congress Party is increasingly looking and acting like a headless chicken. Since its debacle in the recent general elections, there has been a…
THERE is a strange impression that students have no rights as citizens. The truth is that a student is as much a citizen as anyone else. The fundamental rights that…
Tenacious individuals are increasingly carrying out the task of investigative journalism in India without the grudging help of newspapers or TV channels. Fortunately, so far, they have succeeded in the…
When you have no desire to develop relations even on Track I, it is indeed a daydream to have any hope of success for any Track II dialogues. I was…
Dubai eye The writer is a Middle East based columnist. Since time immemorial, people have been killed for what they believed in. We are all familiar with the stories of…
Indian intellectuals claiming to be concerned for Pakistan’s Hindus accosted a Karachi journalist in Delhi recently. How was the minority community coping with the onslaught from Muslim extremists, she was…
Narendra Modi’s stunning victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections has dazzled his opponents and commentators alike. With an absolute majority in parliament he is set to be sworn in…
As India awaits the outcome of its election, Pakistan should calmly weigh the implications of the result for relations between the two countries and consider how – and when –…
When told to bend, they chose to crawl,’ BJP patriarch Advani famously said referring to Indian media’s far from stellar role during the Emergency. Because of its very nature, the…
