SPECIAL ARTICLE

By Rahil Nora Chopra If Gehlot wins Congress top post, will pilot be new Rajasthan CM? A thrilling game of check-and-mate has started within the Congress, with speculations looming large on whether Sachin Pilot would get the throne of…

By Patricia Mukhim When Christ said, “Give unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar,” he did not mean that his followers should wash their hands off the politics of the day and only concentrate on things spiritual. The human person does not live…

By Ajit Ranade So what is the point of staying out of the trade pillar? Indeed, right after opting out of RCEP, India has aggressively pursued bilateral free trade agreements with Australia, United Kingdom, UAE, Canada and the EU. Why then…

By Adelbert Nongrum The big question is who has authorised this new change in the Reservation Policy? Can it even be done without amending the principal OM? I have to say that this wrong move is like lighting a fire. Has the Government…

By Chiranjib Haldar The Pizza Hut advertisement aired in 1997 had two diners contradicting each other; economic confusion, political instability and complete chaos versus opportunity, freedom and hope. But both the dissenter and supporter…

By PR Lyngdoh (A Crying Teacher) The unsavoury and unsympathetic attitude of the education department to the sad plight of teachers in our state has played out in the happenings of the last few months. Almost every day there are news…

By C.S. Krishnamurthy “Goodbye… I can’t take the pressure any longer…I’m not doing well in exams… no one is responsible for my death…” – a girl from Chandigarh. “I’ll come back as a ghost to haunt my teachers…” - a note of a student from…

By Toki Blah The Sunday Shillong Times of the 18th Sept 2022 came up with a much appreciated news item on its front page headlined “Bishops in North east raise alarm over climate change, vows action”. One comes away with three distinct…

By Angela Rangad & Tarun Bhartiya This year, both Meghalaya and the classic gangster film The Godfather are celebrating their Golden Jubilee. Coincidence or not, rewatching the newly restored 4K version of The Godfather trilogy helped…

By Nitya Chakraborty In the renowned writer Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel “Kapalkundala", there is a famous dialogue "Pathik, tumi ki path haraiacho" (Traveller have you lost your way)., Scanning the observations of the Congress…