Utpal Kumar

Development and sustainability don’t have to be antithesis to each other. The same holds true for tourism and ecological safety. Lakshadweep must follow the middle path of sustainable development

The Congress, by boycotting the Ram Mandir ceremony in Ayodhya on January 22, has squandered a great opportunity to align itself with India’s civilisational core, thus setting the course for its further marginalisation

How Amartya Sen and N.K. Singh enflamed a prime ministerial ambition in Nitish Kumar to make him commit a political hara-kiri, forcing him to leave the NDA fold in 2013. Since then, his politics has been all about U-turns

By awarding the Bharat Ratna to PV Narasimha Rao, the Modi dispensation has corrected a historical injustice deliberately orchestrated on those not having the Gandhi-Nehru surnames

Bangladesh, post-Sheikh Hasina, is a massive strategic-security challenge for India, especially West Bengal and the sensitive Northeast. But it is also a gigantic disadvantage for America, with Pakistan and China all set to do a tango in Dhaka

Within 24 hours of the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government, there were reports of Hindus being attacked, their houses and temples ransacked, and their valuables looted in as many as 27 districts of Bangladesh

Such laws have no place in a modern, plural and liberal society. They are not just discriminatory but also communal in their overtones

Since Donald Trump has not just taken on the establishment within the country but also threatened to disturb the status quo on the international front, anyone likely to challenge him becomes the hero — or the heroine

Rahul Gandhi’s politics, especially since CAA and so-called farmers’ protests, has stopped being funny; it has, over the years, become divisive, if not dangerous

Time is ripe for India to create the Great Indian Firewall to stop turning the country into a propaganda battleground. If not done now, the dangerously weaponised and utterly divisive Western narrative setting will consume India