It is a month today since Republican Donald John Trump — a billionaire businessman, TV personality, aspiring wall builder, misogynist, racist, Islamophobe, climate-change denier, pussy grabber, and rookie politician —
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Author: Jonty
Mr Modi, remember your promise and say no to GM crops
Last year when Narendra Modi led the BJP to a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha election, the country looked at him with great hope. After all, the decade of
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Importance of national discipline in nation building
After the World War II, Japan was devastated on the two most crucial fronts that made it one of the major world powers – economic and military. There was widespread
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Is Dr Binayak Sen a prisoner of conscience?
A lot has been written, discussed and debated on the conviction and the subsequent sentencing to life imprisonment of Dr Binayak Sen on charges of sedition. The case got such
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Musings on free speech and possible limits
The second half of 2010 saw some great online debates, fights and rants on an individual’s right of expression and limits to it, much fuelled by Arundhati Roy’s controversial essay
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