The interlinking of rivers (ILR) is ill-conceived, ruinously expensive, technically questionable, ecologically devastating, and socially disruptive. Here’s why ILR needs to be scrapped, and integrated ...

Manmohan Singh’s qualities as a human being outshone both his successes and failures as an administrator. He was, at the very core, a thorough gentleman, unlike most political animals, someone who ...

can make them less sad.

Judge Loya died in the mysterious circumstances in the early hours of 1 December 2014. A new judge, MB Gosavi, resumed the hearing on 15 December, and concluded it two days later.

The recent fracas in the Parliament over the remarks made by Home Minister Amit Shah, on Nehru’s reaction to Ambedkar’s resignation over the Hindu code bill has sparked a debate in the public sphere.

That the overwhelming majority of the Indian intelligentsia, the middle class and the ‘Commentariat’, given their general political-moral make-up, should now be singing the praises of former Prime ...

In the early beginnings of Freedom, some sixteen years ago, there was in our paper an article, entitled ‘Local Action’, which attracted at that time a good deal of attention in Socialist circles. Till ...

There are developments in the global economy where established, time-tested models are going for a toss and right inside the heart of global capitalism – USA. Once upon a time, the Phillips curve was ...