ASE of base ASER, the Annual Status of Education Report, is facilitated by an independent agency called Pratham. The report covers 577 districts, 30 randomly selected villages in each village, 20 households in...

The Story of the forgotton Warrior Naikidevi and KuramDevi The forgotton Warrior Naikidevi and KuramDevi The ancient Kingdom of Gandhar - what is now Afghanistan - became one of the main centres in...

Veer Bhoomi Bharat has  always been fertile in raising bravehearts, who have for eons given the ultimate sacrifice in defence of the motherland In the Modern Age & Time, the Indian Armed Forces...

1965! A year of unprecedented turmoil in Indo-Pak history. In April that year, a minor border dispute in the Rann of Kutch area had resulted in limited scale conflicts between the armies of...

If you are offended by graphic descriptions of sexual activity, please do not read further.   He found her alone in a parking lot. He forced himself on her. He took her out...

Here's a nation one of the founding pillars of which was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what...

Test your Guru for twenty years from a distance, and only then accept him as a guru. Even when you accept him as a guru, always live at least two hills away from...

We are a country of 128 crore people and there may be 128 crore views. This is the maturity of a democracy. For a person making such a speech, it may not be...

The entire citizenry of India is undergoing a crisis that everyone takes for granted and does not realize - there is a complete loss of trust in all unelected bodies that were till...

The road to hell is paved with good intentions Two young TV journalists, a few years out of journalism school, work under a demanding editor, who has impeccable but always-anonymous sources. They admire...

Keeping a few Nazis off the streets of Skokie will serve Jews poorly if it means that the freedoms to speak, publish or assemble are thereby weakened ~ Aryeh Neie, ACLU Executive Director in 1979,...

For those who waited patiently and those who harangued us endlessly for our perspective on the Ambani-Moily FIR, here it is. Thanks for your patience, and apologies for the delay - While the...