Author: TP Saran

The announced ‘loss’ of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370 is still not being accepted by a majority of the relatives of the passengers who were on that

There is something called intrinsic worth or value, and nothing external can ever add or subtract to that

The FFC is reaction rather than, as ought to have been the case, pro-action. In other words, it is primarily a gross policy failure in the matter of

‘Prevention is better than cure’ is a well-known saying, and is quoted by both health professionals and lay people in equal measure. Its equivalent in running a country

It is said that ‘two’s company, three’s a crowd.’ We could rephrase that as ‘two’s company, three’s politics.’

A broad swathe of people we have come across have felt that the over-cautionary approach of the Meteorological Services in respect of the latest two cyclones we have

Last week’s editorial in this paper, ‘Grave issues of governance,’ drew attention to the rollback by government of provisions of the law and regulations that it had itself

It will be interesting to know what new insights our local attendees at Davos will bring to the country, and how these will be put into practice to

In this column on the 27 December 2013, we wrote about the election of the AAM Aadmi Party (AAP) leader as follows: ‘Now we come to Arvind Kejriwal,

Whenever we think about the future, we do so on the basis of past events and experiences, which is really the only way to go about the exercise.

It is the duty of the national authorities to ensure that vested interests based more on prejudice and ‘rent-seeking’ rather than on technical/technological rationale do not come in

Will legality and the wider interest of the country be allowed to be torpedoed by illegality and lobbies that thrive on it? Or will government show the same

The strongest signal that governments must send is that this is a country governed by the rule of law

Like the developed countries, we too are in a critical phase regarding higher education, and it threatens to become even more so if we do not take the

In the case of the NSA scandal, the tables seem to have turned: although in George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen eighty-four’ Big Brother was communist Russia, it seems that that