Opinion

The Khadi model of sustainable development in the time of a pandemic

25 Apr 2020 08:12 AM IST

Khadi economy does not collapse under a lockdown-kind of situation. Small clusters of artisans and craftsmen continue to work in the rural settings and their income is not compromised by the deep economic slowdown.

India fights back Covid-19 resolutely

24 Apr 2020 08:18 AM IST

Resilient India fights back! Call it the first silver lining emerging in India’s fight against coronavirus pandemic, the sharp rise in recovery cases (over 4,250 and counting) is the first feel-good positive news for us. Else, our eyes were always glued to the TV sets counting the Covid-19 positive tally

Hanging in the balance

24 Apr 2020 08:17 AM IST

Communal tensions cannot be allowed to vitiate task of revival, reconstruction.

This isn’t journalism, Western media

23 Apr 2020 16:44 PM IST

Edward Said famously wrote in Orientalism that all Western discourse about the East was complicit in the aims of European imperialism. The behaviour of Western media vis-à-vis India is an indicator to that closed, imperialistic mindset. It often goes into the slam-India mode and blatantly questions its “secular fabric” without