“A polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. The term, derived from the ...

A global civil rights group, Civicus has taken strong exception to how critical commentaries during the “recent conflict” ...

This blog is a continuation of my story "English proficiency for empowerment: Modi’s SCOPE vision contrasts Amit Shah’s ...

While Union Home Minister Amit Shah may have asserted that soon a time would come when those speaking English in the country ...

The report suggests that multidimensional poverty in Gujarat declined by around 7% over a period of five years, pointing out ...

Khadi Floods in Surat City”, published by two civil rights groups, Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti and the People's Union for ...

Based on a case study of a standalone solar power plant in Maharashtra, where electricity is generated and transmitted through the grid, the consulting firm TeamLease RegTech, in its report “Decoding ...

Although I haven’t lived in Sukhdev Vihar since, except for brief visits during my years in Moscow — where I worked as Patriot’s foreign correspondent until the paper folded in 1993 — I have seen ...

Recently, I wrote a blog on retired Gujarat cadre IAS bureaucrat RP Gupta, with whom I used to interact during my Gandhinagar Sachivalaya days as the Times of India man. Written in the backdrop of the ...

It was Krishna Kumar, the well-known educationist, who I believe first introduced me to the name — Gijubhai Badheka (1885–1939). Hailing from Bhavnagar, known as the cultural capital of the Saurashtra ...

I would cite the example of their national language, Urdu. It is the language of Delhi and Meerut — of the Muhajirs who migrated to Pakistan during Partition. Pakistan had several regional languages — ...

The suspension of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) appears to have pushed the middle classes, at least in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state, Gujarat, further towards what the powers-that-be would ...