Utpal Kumar

MY NAME IS INDIA AND I DENY MY OWN PAST

While there’s a section of people in India readily denying their own past, there are others whose idea of history…

4 years ago

THE INCREDIBLE FLIGHT OF INDIA’S PARACHUTE MAN

Harsh Mariwala, founder and chairman of Marico and author of ‘Harsh Realities: The Making of Marico’, opens up about the…

4 years ago

ATTACKING HINDUISM IN HINDUTVA’S NAME

Why an event like ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’, co-sponsored by over 40 US universities led by Columbia, Princeton, Berkeley and Harvard,…

4 years ago

BIDEN’S FAUSTIAN BARGAIN WITH ‘SMART, MEDIA-SAVVY’ TALIBAN

US President Joe Biden might have bought a short-term reprieve for a long-term humiliation. It’s a Faustian bargain of the…

4 years ago

THE GREAT AMERICAN ART OF LOSING WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

President Ashraf Ghani seems to be waging a lonely battle. One hopes it’s not for a losing cause. For, any…

4 years ago

GUJARAT HIGH COURT TAKES RIGHT STEP, TIME FOR SUPREME REFORM

The judiciary has come a long way from the time a judge would not be elevated to a higher court…

4 years ago

NEHRU, NORTHEAST AND NOT-SO SPLENDID ISOLATION

In the last seven years, the Modi dispensation has made sincere efforts to pull the Northeast out of its ‘splendid…

4 years ago

WITH TALIBAN AT KANDAHAR GATES AND CHINA CHECKING IN ON KABUL, INDIA TO REORIENT ITS AFGHAN POLICY

When India decided to pull out around 50 diplomats and security personnel from its consulate in Kandahar in Afghanistan on…

4 years ago

LAKSHADWEEP NEEDS PROGRESS, NOT PROTEST

The agitation, currently being waged in the name of ecology, seems politically and communally motivated.

4 years ago

DRAGON SHOWS ITS TRUE NATURE, TIME FOR DEMOCRACIES TO UNITE

As President Xi Jinping was addressing the centenary celebrations of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the Tiananmen Square…

4 years ago

AS XI CELEBRATES MAO, BE PREPARED FOR MORE WUHANS, GALWANS

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is all set to celebrate its 100th anniversary on 1 July. Chinese President and CCP…

4 years ago

IMRAN IS JUST A SYMPTOM, REAL PROBLEM IS THE IDEA OF PAKISTAN

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is a perfect manifestation of what’s wrong with his country today. A leader who was…

4 years ago