“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” ...

A new report, prepared by a top Swedish institute studying liberal democracy, has observed that there has been a sharp “dive in press freedom along with increasing repression of civil society in India ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The report specifies that compliance requirements include adherence to Renewable Purchase Obligations (RPOs), the Energy Conservation Act, 2001, tariff policies, environmental clearances, and grid ...

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 ...