Opinion

A journalist’s road has become more perilous than ever before

07 Jul 2021 07:30 AM IST

When China and other autocratic countries are trying to control the global narratives by spreading misinformation, journalists need to provide fearless in-depth reporting whether it is about the Xinjiang internment camps, Wuhan lab virus escape, Russia’s political protests, Trump’s 6 January catastrophic misadventure, or the existential threat of climate change.

XI’S BASHING-HEADS SPEECH IS RIDICULOUS RHETORIC

06 Jul 2021 02:43 AM IST

Is China’s President Xi Jinping about to be reduced to a caricature? His bluster at Tiananmen Square—the site of the massacre of the students who led China’s democracy movement in 1989—to mark hundred years of the Chinese Communist Party was ridiculous at best, given how almost in the same breath

Nothing is infallible in Clubhouse

06 Jul 2021 02:30 AM IST

The Clubhouse is emerging as a 24-hour university where knowledge is being imparted on various issues from vaccines to the Olympics to investment and business. The so-called Left-wing that thrived on controlling the narrative is not finding traction here.

COVID, CLOUD, NEW MARKETS AND DIGITAL PARADIGMS

05 Jul 2021 03:56 AM IST

The Covid-19 pandemic has adversely disrupted all the sheen our Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector had amassed in the last few years. Almost 82% of small businesses have been impacted due to this pandemic. It is common in today’s time that you read about the havoc this pandemic

WHY CONTINUOUS FACULTY DEVELOPMENT IS A PRIORITY CONCERN

05 Jul 2021 03:42 AM IST

In a system as gigantic as ours, there is a need to strengthen both the Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching and Human Resource Development Centres, with the provision for a periodic review. These schemes should not be allowed to cease or languish for want of

PAWAR CAN ONLY BE THE FACILITATOR OF A FEDERAL FRONT, NOT ITS LEADER

03 Jul 2021 08:49 AM IST

Exploratory exercises for a UPA in a new avatar have already started, and some days ago, Maharashtra strongman and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, with the assistance of former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, organised a get together of some like-minded people at his New Delhi residence. The move, which is in

Toolkit on how to kill a university

03 Jul 2021 08:48 AM IST

This column comes in the face of an arbitrary order to supersede three senior professors and make way for a down in the ladder person as head of one of the largest departments of a premiere ‘Delhi University’. Those working in universities have found impudence to established practices a new

DRAGON SHOWS ITS TRUE NATURE, TIME FOR DEMOCRACIES TO UNITE

02 Jul 2021 02:53 AM IST

As President Xi Jinping was addressing the centenary celebrations of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, where he called for building a strong military to defend the country and integrating Taiwan with the Chinese mainland, besides strengthening jurisdiction over Hong Kong and Macau, it

XI JINPING IS THE NEW FÜHRER

02 Jul 2021 02:51 AM IST

Like Hitler’s Germany, China is trying to expand its territory and influence not only in the Himalayas or in the South China Sea, but everywhere from Central Asia to Africa and South America.

TWITTER’S LIFE IN INDIA SET TO GET DIFFICULT

01 Jul 2021 07:41 AM IST

The cases are coming thick and fast. Twitter, having decided not to abide by the law of the land it operates in, finds itself in the middle of several FIRs that have been lodged against it. One of Twitter’s major transgressions was uploading a headless Indian map, with Jammu, Kashmir

Communist China and its Middle Kingdom Syndrome

01 Jul 2021 07:40 AM IST

Beijing is celebrating the first centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China today. Why is this event so important for China and its rulers?

TWEETS AND HEADLINES WIN MERE NARRATIVES, BUT GROUND WORK WINS HEARTS

30 Jun 2021 07:11 AM IST

If the Prime Minister was missing in action most of April and May, he has spent the entire month of June dispelling the notion of an absentee leader. He began his comeback narrative by deciding to cancel Class 12 boards, an announcement that was welcomed by parents and doctors alike.