Opinion

Now that sanitary napkins are out of GST purview, activists need to ensure that not only are these essential items made widely available, girls are educated about the criticality of using safe hygiene methods.

Increasingly, aggressive wooing of the minorities did not help the Congress regain the ground it had lost, but it did end up throwing the party's 'secular' credentials in doubt, as the AK Antony report pointed out.

The recent incident in Dhule, Maharashtra, where a mob lynched five persons from a nomadic tribe can be understood and analysed from different perspectives.

In order to make access to water adequate and equitable, we must shift our focus from water sources to water resources. Both science, and community participation and cooperation, are key to addressing our water woes.

Be furious that you and everyone you care about who lives in this city are all victim to a slow and silent genocide.

The problem with the lateral entry system is lack of transparency, honesty and political interference in the selection process.

The NaMo app introduces a new variable in an already complex electoral eco-system where it is increasingly difficult to predict outcomes. In Karnataka, conventional wisdom says the Congress has a definite edge, but will the Wizard of Apps pull a rabbit o...

Karnataka would be a test case of whether emotions override translation or get undermined by it. The Congress is keen to make it a major election plank and this required PM Modi to actually raise it in his rallies. One is likely to see this factor play ou...

In my writ petition against the Union of India, I have challenged Section 377 stating that the criminalisation of consensual sexual relationships between adults goes against the Constitution of this country.

Minorities had realised that nothing concrete had been done for them. The Congress failed to reciprocate the unconditional support they enjoyed for decades with progress and development.

Today, the Deccan Plateau has the dubious distinction of being the hotspot of farmers’ suicides. Maharashtra has the largest number of irrigation projects (1,845) in the country but the state has miserably failed to address the drinking water issue during...

In this land, like many other places in our male dominated societies across the world, there were characteristics of a society starved of celebration of women presence in public spaces – powerful or playful.

The act of vandalism in the Tirupattur corporation office in Vellore district, where a statue of Periyar was disfigured, comes a day after BJP leader H Raja allegedly posted a message on Facebook. In his post, deleted after sharp criticism, the BJP leader...

The intention of subsuming all existing schemes under a ‘single payer’ mechanism may not be easy. State-level insurance coverage ranges from five to six percent in Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh to more than two-third of state population in Tamil Nad...

70 years after partition, two and a half generations later, Muslims have to die at the border to meet the standards of majoritarian ideals of patriotism.

Overall, the Union Budget is prudent and pragmatic. But it has done rather poorly on social protection, says Rajya Sabha member Narendra Damodar Jadhav.