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Our cities are still littered with urban waste, plastic bags and the omnipresent gutka packets.

Swachchh Bharat Mission has to translate beyond photo-ops

Going beyond the crumbling waste management infrastructure, our people have to change their mindset.

25 Sept 2018 12:27 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi and M. Venkaiah Naidu release a book during his first year as VP of India and Chairman of Rajya Sabha in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

'PM Modi's talk about discipline is undemocratic and misunderstood'

The more you look at 2018, the more it is looking like 1984. No, not the year 1984, but I mean it in the Orwellian...

10 Sept 2018 12:31 AM IST

Army personnel rescue flood affected people in Ernakulam district of Kerala. (Photo: PTI)

Votebank politics result in step-motherly treatment for India's states...

Rahul Gandhi's promise to uplift the huge migrant population of artisans, carpenters, plumbers and weavers has been...

27 Aug 2018 12:10 AM IST

As parents, we must focus on bringing up balanced individuals. For this we need to look inwards and see if we are steady and sorted parents.

It's crucial to make your child learn how to handle disappointment

Saving children from the small disappointments in life leaves them unprepared for the larger ones which are sure to hit...

13 Aug 2018 12:15 AM IST

A very powerful instant networking tool has come into the hands of people who are not responsible and mature enough to use it. The danger is when WhatsApp leads to physical networking. Flash mobs. Crowds.

WhatsAppenin' in India?

Imagine lying ripped apart, slashed, broken, bleeding, knowing you will never see your loved ones, your kids, your...

27 July 2018 2:18 AM IST

On July 12, the Delhi High Court adjourned the hearing of the Sunanda Pushkar death case on a plea by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy till July 20. (Photo:

Sunanda Pushkar's death has left Shashi Tharoor more vulnerable

Sunanda was a successful businesswoman from Dubai, and she was used to living the high life, in the limelight.

13 July 2018 1:24 AM IST

A water vendor and residents of an area take drinking water from a roadside water source in Kolkata. (Photo: AP)

India is facing a water crisis: A long-term plan is needed

There are many who cannot afford to drink clean water or even take a decent bath.

29 Jun 2018 1:16 AM IST

As people who educate and contribute to society, we must make a concerted effort to make our children feel secure and never feel the need of ending their lives over an exam result.

Let's make our children feel secure. Exam results are not everything

The idea of success and a life led successfully is different in what we call the advanced nations of the world.

13 Jun 2018 12:47 AM IST

Admissions to colleges teaching engineering and medicine, to colleges of fine universities, come at a huge price.

Stress time for kids: Bring back the joy of studying

The parents are also blind to the fact that there are various other things and streams a child can pick as career...

23 May 2018 1:05 AM IST

School girls hold placards during a silent protest rally against the recent rape cases of two teenage girls in the Chatra and Pakur districts of Jharkhand, in Ranchi. (Photo: AFP)

An atmosphere of fear engulfs the nation... It's time to stem the rot

We live in times when minority prayers are unceremoniously disrupted by right-wing activists of Gurugram in our own...

9 May 2018 12:51 AM IST

The story has a tragically Orwellian climax, in which the people of Boondocks looked from the Mind Cleaver to his bedmate and from the bedmate to the Mind Cleaver not knowing which is which. (Representational image)

The Mind Cleaver and his Bedmate

Hunky Dory Inc. had to be run in a certain manner. Hunky wanted profit at all costs.

25 April 2018 6:36 AM IST

Central Board of Secondary Education students display placards during a protest over the alleged paper leak, in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. (Photo: PTI)

CBSE exam paper leaks: Board needs to get its house in order

The CBSE finally did show some sense by not making all students sit for the retest.

11 April 2018 12:18 AM IST