“A polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. The term, derived from the ...

While Union Home Minister Amit Shah may have asserted that soon a time would come when those speaking English in the country ...

This blog is a continuation of my story "English proficiency for empowerment: Modi’s SCOPE vision contrasts Amit Shah’s ...

A global civil rights group, Civicus has taken strong exception to how critical commentaries during the “recent conflict” ...

Khadi Floods in Surat City”, published by two civil rights groups, Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti and the People's Union for Civil Liberties, Surat, states that nearly half of Gujarat's top urban ...

The suspension of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) appears to have pushed the middle classes, at least in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state, Gujarat, further towards what the powers-that-be would ...

Taking a cue from what this social media interaction revealed, adding few of my personal experiences, here I am trying to summarize the type of relations Patriot-Link had with the Soviet Union. During ...

Although I haven’t lived in Sukhdev Vihar since, except for brief visits during my years in Moscow — where I worked as Patriot’s foreign correspondent until the paper folded in 1993 — I have seen ...

A report prepared by the top child welfare NGO, Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI), has identified as many as 15 offenders allegedly violating the Indian baby food law, the Infant Milk ...

Said to be one of the most influential Israeli dailies, "Haaretz" (literally: News of the Land) has identified the Adani Group—known to be close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi—as one of the key ...

A recent American civil society research has found that 40% of India's casteist posts on Facebook (FB) have anti-reservation slant. Asserting that the reservation policy in India is similar to ...

And what an irony! While Sanskrit is included in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, I have yet to come across anyone who actively seeks to converse in it. A quick internet search tells me ...