SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN IN MEDIA - South Asian Women in Media

Signalling woes and a lack of routes add to the woes of the Modi government's flagship railway initiative. New Delhi: It is just as well that Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to inaugurate three Vande Bharat trains when he did because…

The West wants to win India over — despite its grime, it’s a nation of gritty people

THE GREAT GAME: Amid outrage over Kolkata rape-murder, Trinamool MPs in danger of being called ‘goongi gudiyas’

The family of Sheikh Hasina, the longest-serving prime minister of Bangladesh, has been at the forefront of the political life of that country since its creation in 1971, and even earlier. It is a sad reflection on the politics she pursued…

Pre-British Hindustan was truly a kaleidoscope of multiple outlooks

Sheikh Hasina is gone and 'democracy' is back in Bangladesh. Jamaat-e-Islami and its armed student wing, Chhatra Shibir, celebrated in their own style - arson, looting, attacks on minorities, and erasing history by demolishing statues and…

THE GREAT GAME: Events are leavened not just by the memory of August 15, 1975, but also coloured by fate of things to come

For now, Delhi will hope that the army chief, a Hasina loyalist, will keep anti-India sentiment in check.

If one were to look beyond one’s immediate needs and check out what’s happening not just in our immediate neighbourhood (Bangladesh) but in the UK, USA and the Middle East, amongst others, one cannot but feel the world coming apart. There…

How could Hasina let Obaidul Quader issue orders to kill those who dared to protest? This could not — cannot — be the work of a student protester, we thought, however angry he was with Bangabandhu’s daughter. Even if she, Sheikh Hasina,…