Anniversary Issue - Page 8

There is a quote from Publius Tacitus (Gaius Cornelius Tacitus), author of several texts, including “Annals”. As commonly cited in English, the quote...

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations, said Adam Smith. But that was much before communication revolution removed all...

It all began with my grandfather. He was one of the early pioneers of thermodynamics. The torch then passed to his son, my father. He was a research...

Delhi has this tendency of living two lives at once, as several incidents, including the mutiny of 1857 and peoples’ agitations of the later years...

Our capital city has always risen to the changing aspirations of its people. From Electric Trams to the Delhi Metro, the Indian national capital's...

To the uninitiated, the meandering lanes and bylanes of old Delhi, packed with people, rickshaws, autos, cars and shops, connecting the Red Fort, Jama...

You walk into a bustling in-the-process-of-being-upgraded-to-a-posh-market area that exemplifies Delhi's urban villages, which are now hubs of...

It was in 1985-86 that then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was trying to create a new grammar for governance. In Rajiv’s schemes, culture played an...

It has been decades that the monopoly of everything cultural was in the hands of those in Bengal and then perhaps Mumbai. With the Bollywood industry...

Urban transport in India's sprawling cities presents a chaotic scenario today. Mobility in the four metropolitan capitals is a nightmare, despite the...

“Indian judiciary in not facing the heat of “dysfunctional judiciary,” contends Prashant Bhushan and vows for a public movement against dysfunctional...

The past decade has seen the rise of alternative political formations – in both movements and parties across the globe - that are challenging the...