Refusal to renew the licence of Missionaries of Charity. The refusal by the union government led by BJP to renew the registration of Missionaries of Charity, a globally repute charity organization with long and distinguished record of humanitarian service on the ground has raised more troubling questions than answers. While…

Withdraw AFSA from Nagaland. Following the palpable outrage among the people of Nagaland over the botched army operations which resulted in the death of over 15 innocent civilians last month and the concomitant vociferous protests it triggered in the wake demanding the repeal of AFSA ( The Armed Forces Special…

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an anti apartheid icon. The passing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a noble laureate and an embodiment of exemplary righteousness and conviction in fighting racial apartheid in South Africa and one who devoted his entire life for the cause of peace and reconciliation after his country released itself…

Nod for booster doses of Covid-19 vaccines in India. In the backdrop of a discernible spike in coronovirus infections caused by its Omicron variant in several parts of the country over the weeks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced his government's decision to vaccinate teens between the ages of 15…

K S Sethumadhavan, A master craftsman. In the death of K.S Sethumadhavan, Indian film industry had lost one of its master craftsman who made a key role in developing Malayalam cinema developing its own idiom. Right from his first film' Gnana Sundari' in 1961 to ' Kinavukal in 1991, he…

The draft proposals of Jammu and Kashmir delimitation Commission. The draft proposals of Jammu and Kashmir Delimitation Commission set up in March 2020 to redraw electoral boundaries in Jammu and Kashmir based on 2011 population census has expectedly received backlash from mainstream political parties based in Muslim- majority Kashmir as…

Omicron threat in India. With number of people infected with Omicron variant of coronovirus have crossed more than 200 in India, union health secretary had written a letter to the Chief Secretaries of states and union territories exhorting them to clamp restrictions on mass gatherings and impose night curfews. While…

Electoral reforms needs wider consultations. Rather than initiate a comprehensive discussion and debate on the issue as important as electoral reforms, BJP led ruling dispensation had rammed through a law in the Parliament seeking to link electoral roll data with Aadhaar ecosystem on the strength of its brute majority. Few would dispute the imperative need for electoral reforms, but it cannot be ushered in without wider consultations with law makers and public.

Political violence, a bane of Kerala polity. Political violence has remained a bane of otherwise socially and educationally progressive state of Kerala for decades to the chagrin of its peace loving people. The recent spate of murders of leaders belonging to SDPI, a political arm of the Popular Front of…