The Supreme Court’s 547 page-long judgement on privacy is not just a legal landmark; it’s a learned document, well-referenced, on how information technology today, if not properly controlled, can be a palpable threat to human life and freedom. The judgement on one hand has reversed its earlier p...
Plato banished the poets and writers from his ‘ideal’ world of the Republic because they were ‘liars’. But the ‘orators’ – who turned out to be the politicians and parliamentarians – were allowed an entry. We wonder what Plato’s stand would be today in the 21st century ‘republic...
Anup hails from a village in Chattarpur in south Delhi and earns `350 a day. He was determined to give his daughter Payal a quality education so that she could secure a job for herself. He said, “We are regularly reminded to get Neha married by our friends and relatives, but I wanted to stand by m...
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar –Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (1820-1891) was one of the key figures of India’s renaissance in the nineteenth century. He worked wholeheartedly for women’s empowerment andprosperity. He was an academician, a thinker and a scholar par excellence. It was due his vast er...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi deserves to be congratulated for taking a courageous and much needed step in the direction of scrapping the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and for putting in place the higher education regulator i.e. Higher Educat...
The Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan advised the journalists in a meeting in Delhi the other day to avoid ‘unpleasant truths’ and write only ‘nice things’. True, today’s paper is full of news ofviolence, corruption, communal hatred, terrorism, and rape. You hardly find a ‘positive’ st...
“Do not go with the flow. Be the flow” - Elif Safak from her book The Forty Rules of Love”A chance buy of Amanda Ripley’s “The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way” at Boston’s Logan Airport and the subsequent eighteen hours that I spent devouring it, changed something...
Dr. Sankar Prasad MukherjeeArybhatta was an ancient mathematician and astronomer of India. He was born in Pataliputra (Magadh) in Bihar. Some opine that he may have been born in Kerala. Arya is a south Indian name whereas the name Bhatta has a north Indian origin. Whatever be the controversies...
It took a long time for journalism to enter into the portals of the university. Journalists have been described as ‘scatter-brained’ and ‘muck rakers’ by western scholars and in the late nineteenth century, only one or two American universities had agreed to allow jou...
The Maternity Benefit Amendment Bill, 2016, was passed by the Lok Sabha on March 9, a day after International Women’s Day. It extended the maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks for women employed in the organised sector. The Bill was introduced in Rajya Sabha last year.The Bill will be p...
