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Deterrence Revisited

For more than two decades, India’s nuclear doctrine has been treated as a settled matter.

Counting Care

For generations, Indian society has perfected a contradiction.

The Fifth Stream ~ II

The question remains even today: on what legal basis can the Jana Sangh or the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh conclusively be called fascist? They were accused of being anti-democratic and anti-constitutional, but these accusations were never decisively established in legal terms.

H-1B ruling offers respite to Indians

On 8 June, a US federal judge in Boston struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, ruling it an unlawful tax that Congress never authorized.

Suhrawardy and Partition

I n the 1946 election, though the Hindu Mahasabha opposed Congress in 26 general seats, it polled only 2.73 per cent of the total Hindu vote and won only one seat, which was a special Reserved University seat from where Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (1901-53) was elected unopposed.

Suspended treaty, rising waters

By its own actions, Pakistan had forfeited the entitlement to receive hydrological data - such as vital flood forecasts and river discharge volumes - that India had regularly shared in the past for early warning and water management.

Silent Divide

India’s cancer statistics reveal a troubling contradiction: women are being diagnosed more often, yet men are dying in greater numbers.

Red Fort Warning

The Red Fort, built by Shah Jahan as a symbol of imperial splendour and since 1947 the ceremonial heart of independent India, is silently darkening.

Chance discoveries

Not every wonderful breakthrough in science and technology was created intentionally. A chance discovery or invention is an unexpected realization and insight that occurs without direct intention.