How did you come to be the way you are is one of your most important aspects. You may be a person, a culture, an institution or a company. Whether you...

Our family seat is in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. My family is Bengali Shakto (worshippers of Mother Kali and Goddess Durga). My clan’s faith...

The federalism that exists in the Indian Union is federalism only in name. The meagre powers that constitutionally exist in the hands of the state...

The new Union government seems hell-bent on Hindi-fying the regime and its activities. The original party of the upper Gangetic plain bazaar class is...

The Indian Union ranks extremely low in the level of healthcare that most of its citizens have access to. Beyond the swanky places that cater to the...

The chief minister of Gujarat and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, speaking at a rally in West Bengal on 27 April, made public his...

At the very outset, I should make my position on certain things very clear. I believe that there are many, many ways of being human – none of them...

The greater Boston area of the United States of America has a very good public transportation system. This comprises of buses, local trains, boats and...

With the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Arvind Kejriwal taking the fight against the ‘Gujarat model’ straight to the aam Gujaratis, the party has raised...

There is the Congress, the outer Congress, the inner Congress and the inner-inner Congress. Janardan Dwivedi, a long time fixture at the Indira...

Recently, he has denied the allegations by his foster daughter that he had sexually molested her when she was seven. She describes the sickening...

When Jawaharlal arrived in a Kashmiri Brahmin family of Allahabad on 14 November, the seed of Children’s Day was born in this brown land. For some...