As Asia’s first Nobel laureate enters his 150th year, it is important to remember that Rabindranath Tagore was far, far more than only a poet. He was a painter, an educationist, a philosopher, a truly global visionary and a political activist of rare moral courage.
A form of venture funding, which uses the profit motive to create social change, is slowly making its presence felt in India.
Kobad Ghandy, one of the senior-most leaders of the CPI (Maoist), remembers his wife and comrade Anuradha Ghandy, the only woman in the Central Committee of the CPI (Maoists), who died in April 2008 of cerebral malaria.
The main accused charged for selling arms and ammunition to Maoists may have been working under protection of senior officers.
Can the enshrinement of English as a goddess help Dalits overcome their hardships? Good question.
The BJP president has finally arrived, say his cheerleaders. But his arrival, be it by means of his actions or statements, has left many of his party members aghast.
For India’s most successful public image manager to suffer an image crisis is an irony that requires us to think beyond the obvious.
Why does Telecom Minister Andimuthu Raja seem so secure? The ‘code division’ and ‘multiple access’ intricacies of Tamil politics.