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An ambitious defence vision

India, Sept. 4 -- India currently ranks as the world's second-largest arms importer and fifth-largest military spender - a reflection of its ongoing drive to modernise its armed forces against both lo... Read More


What Gor did not say in Kashmir

India, Aug. 20 -- India and Pakistan are at it again - and the immediate cause remains a country in the West. Coinciding with US Ambassador Sergio Gor's visit to Jammu and Kashmir where he made a stat... Read More


The time for an NTA self-review has passed

India, Aug. 18 -- To a naive viewer of India's education sector, it could seem that the country's apex examination agency cannot catch a break. Months after botching the country's premier medical entr... Read More


Treat the cause, not the symptom

India, July 21 -- Under the politics, dust, grime and blood of the sweeping protests that rocked Delhi is a simple truth - that there is acute anxiety among young people fuelled by a string of examina... Read More


The myth of the big happy Indian family

India, July 13 -- The jury is still out on whether Indians are indeed the most family-oriented people in the world. Intergenerational families that travel together, carrying their own food and dancing... Read More


Perils and promise of Hasina's return home

India, July 12 -- After hinting at returning home from self-exile in several interviews in the past, former Bangladesh Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said on July 10 that she will return to her cou... Read More


Walking safely as a fundamental right

India, June 21 -- Several countries have laws on pedestrian rights: The Nordic countries have "freedom to roam" and the US has state-level vehicle codes and urban zoning laws. India, on Friday, elevat... Read More


Resetting New Delhi's Kathmandu connection

India, June 7 -- Back-to-back visits to India by the chief of Nepal's ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party, Rabi Lamichhane, and foreign minister Shisir Khanal have prepared the ground for a comprehensive ... Read More