Opinion
Opinion | A Second Chipko Movement For The Hills
Landslides and flash floods have wreaked havoc in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. It is time we retain the sanctity and natural beauty of the Himalayan valley, widely popular as the Land of Gods
Opinion | Women’s Reservation Bill: PM Modi Translating a Powerful Idea into a Pleasant Reality
The credit for bringing the idea of 33 per cent reservation for women to fruition goes to PM Modi, who translated an idea into something that will now shape the destinies of many Indian women
Opinion | How Western Media Exonerated Hardeep Singh Nijjar And Covered Up His Tracks
The Western media has gone to agonising lengths to exonerate Nijjar, glossing over a ghastly track record that this supposedly virtuous, devoid-of-all-things-foul individual just happened to be tainted with
Opinion | Mizoram Elections: ZPM, Congress Banking on Alliances to Battle Against Ruling MNF
The elections in Mizoram are only three months away. The ruling MNF has been busy strategising its election campaign, and the Opposition parties are preparing themselves to take on the MNF, which has been ruling the state since 2018
Opinion | The Unsaid Behind India-Canada Standoff Which Begs Greater Attention
India’s rise as the voice of the Global South is at the expense of the West. With a tacit nod from the rest, Canada might as well be playing bad cop, while delivering reputational damage to India’s global standing
Trudeau’s Faustian Bargain: Denial of K-Roots On Canadian Soil Mirrors Pak's Compromise with Terror
The Khalistan issue has always been a bit of an irritant in the Indo-Canadian ties. There’s documented evidence to suggest that even Justin Trudeau’s father Pierre, who was the PM, played along with the growing Sikh separatist fringe in Canada in the late...
Opinion | Checkmating China: How India-Middle East-Europe Corridor will Make China’s BRI Irrelevant
An infrastructure project with “Chinese characteristics” like Belt and Road Initiative challenged western powers to follow a more constructive and democratic approach to counter Beijing’s tactics. And, in this case, western powers have followed India’s le...
Trudeau’s ‘K’ Pop-ulism Hits the Wrong Note: India Reserves the Right to Explore Harder Options Against Canada
India is Canada’s 10th largest trade partner. New Delhi could look to weaponise business talks with Ottawa on a transformative free trade agreement that the two nations are looking to conclude
Opinion | Rise of a Rajasic Nation: Beyond G20, Bharat Now Has a Permanent Sheen
As the G20 example shows, Bharat’s voice is heard and is increasingly shaping global opinion and policy. The change might have been in the works, but the Narendra Modi government was the trigger
Opinion | Canada's PM Trudeau Has Given Up on Diplomacy – Snub from India & G20 Leaders Proves It
Trudeau’s absence from all of the main highlights of the G20 summit shows just how poorly he has been managing Canada’s diplomatic affairs
Opinion | New Bharat: G20 Presidency, Soft Power and Global Citizenship
Bharat’s G20 Presidency has created a paradigm shift in global politics and there is no denial to the fact that the Modi-led government has successfully articulated this opportunity to present its capacity as the bridge to the Global South
Opinion | World Suicide Prevention Day: Rising Student and Youth Suicides in India
Growing suicide is not only an Indian phenomenon but a global pandemic with more than one million WHO-reported suicides every year. It is time that G20 leaders wake up to this monster killer threat
Opinion | The Esoteric Discourse on ‘India’ Vs ‘Bharat’: Disentangling the Enigma
The transition from Bharat to India is emblematic of the nation’s multi-faceted identity, interwoven with its colonial legacy and its endeavour towards an indigenous renaissance
Opinion | Attendees and Absentees: A Reshape of the G20?
While most of the members of the G20 converge on economic cooperation, China’s growing economic and strategic aggression could cause a reshaping of the G20
Opinion | Invest in Teachers, Technology and Training for Effective Learning
While technology has revolutionised learning methods and has the potential to remove some of the tasks that teachers have to perform, it certainly cannot supplant the indispensable role of educators
With G20 Presidency, India Aims at Bringing Much-Needed ‘Human Touch’ to Global Forums
India is on a mission to not just help the G20 nations make their economies stronger and more resilient, but is also making a big push for ordinary people to be uplifted