There is only one solution to the problem — increase MRPs.

Increasing reliance on local sources such as panchayats, municipalities and other local bodies will make future water body surveys more informative

There are bound to be debates, conflicts of opinion, and dissent. We will need to use and strengthen India’s democratic institutions to find the way forward.

The museum calls for a curatorial imagination that can capture the vibrant spirit of Indian democracy and transmit it to its visitors. The current fracas over the upgrade is an opportunity to rescue it from being turned into a morgue of banal claims and context-free information

It must provide an enabling environment for students. Ensuring security should not be at the cost of their freedoms.

Be it by courting non-dominant groups within the OBC category, or the most deprived or less mobilised sub-castes within the SCs, or by now reaching out to Pasmanda or backward caste Muslims with its labharthi politics, the BJP has sought to coopt Mandal and combine it with Mandir, often successfully.

At the heart of due process is the political will to ensure it. With the Atiq and Ashraf Ahmed killings, what is visible is its stark contrast

The open rebellion over seat distribution points to the absence of assertive state leadership. The party's attempts to expand its footprint by encouraging defections from rival parties have contributed to the mess.

AAP, India's newest national party is evidently eyeing a bigger playground. But taking centre-stage is still a long haul

The possibility of another object within the solar system hosting life forms would, statistically speaking, mean that extra-terrestrial life is extremely common in the universe, not rare. Our solar system, after all, is little more than a tiny speck of sand on a sprawling beach