Opinion

Coronavirus has taught the nation how to come together for survival. It has motivated the ill-advised actions of well-meaning people who started finding ghosts behind every wall.

Loyalty is a vital component of the military ethic, but this loyalty is more to the values of an organisation rather than only to the superiors.

To accomplish peace and development in J&K, the whole India must be mobilised into one united body which stands firm in support of a nationalist and patriotic government to combat terrorism in Kashmir.

Such times call for extreme measures without bothering about the opinion of the opposition or intellectuals.

The big metropolitan cities have come to signify the dangers of stacked living, the notion of sitting around a room and planning the Great Tomorrow. Over a weekend, the world ditched the idea and went back home.

The street vendors in Delhi have restored the supply chain by calling up their ‘loyal customers’, taking orders on phone and calling back when the pack is ready for pick with the amount to be paid.

Though the RJD has tried to expand its social horizons, its acceptance among the upper castes will entirely depend on the number of seats its spares for them during ticket distribution before the crucial assembly polls.

The Maha Vikas Aghadi’s policy focus on nativism may have to walk the jagged edge to ensure that it does not degenerate into a local version of xenophobia due to the competing forces involved.

In a paradigm shift in its social philosophy, the RJD leader has floated the A-Z principle encompassing every section of society, deviating from the core formula of Muslim-Yadav devised by his father and party supremo Lalu Prasad.

The saffron party made some of the same mistakes in the Delhi assembly election campaigning that the opposition did against it in the run-up to last year’s Lok Sabha polls.

The final Bodo agreement has opened the doors for peace and prosperity in not just Bodoland but for the entire state of Assam.

Given the city’s changed demography and electoral profile, parties closely identified with Sikh and Jat identities are fast becoming irrelevant.

This agitation belongs to the young who have faced the brutality of fellow humans. Hopefully many will graduate to the ranks of a new generation of politicians but conventional politics will need to provide the support.

While the BJP is still getting votes in the name of Narendra Modi, people have started to ask questions to the local leadership about their future agenda and roadmaps.

Once a rape victim is killed, withholding the name of the deceased serves no purpose.

It is important that such a cross-cutting area of law and policy, which will have significant economic, constitutional, geopolitical and commercial implications, is analysed to the core by experts and government officials, and it is only after that it get...