The Truth can never be hidden
By Siddhesh Gautam Every year on Independence Day, I find myself wondering about two different worlds. One is the world of the nation of flags, speeches, celebrations and the nostalgia of freedom…
By Sohail Khan · 15 Aug
In March 2022, the FAO’s benchmark food price index hit an all-time high, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. More than four years later, those fears of a global food crisis have…
By Sohail Khan · 15 Aug
On this great occasion of the 80th Independence Day celebrations of Bharat, I extend my heartiest congratulations to each Bharatvasi. I also pay my respectful tributes to all freedom fighters who sacrificed…
By Sohail Khan · 15 Aug
Independence Day discourses, speeches and poetry oscillate between, to borrow Freudian terms, the pleasure principle and the reality principle. The pleasure principle is the affirmation of India’s grandeur. It offers, like all…
By Sohail Khan · 15 Aug
The Bar Council of India has rolled back its illegal, arbitrary and overreaching direction to State Bar Councils to not enrol 2026 graduates of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. But that cannot,…
By Sohail Khan · 15 Aug
On this day in 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru promised the country dignity and opportunity, adding that the pledge would be redeemed “not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially”. Seventy-nine years on,…
By Sohail Khan · 15 Aug
Several posts on social media have underlined how the Leader of the Opposition ignored two leading corporate leaders at a private function in Delhi. His constant diatribe against the economy and vilification…
By Sohail Khan · 15 Aug
The police arrested more than 100 workers of the Akali Dal, led by Parkash Singh Badal, on the eve of the party’s protest day. The arrests were made throughout Punjab to ensure…
By Sohail Khan · 15 Aug
The national capital, like cities and towns across India, erupted in celebration on August 15, 1947. The day’s first official ceremony was the swearing-in of Lord Louis Mountbatten as Governor-General, who until…
By Sohail Khan · 15 Aug
A directive issued by Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman and Senior Advocate Manan Kumar Mishra Thursday evening, barring the 2026 graduating batch of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, from enrolling with…
By Sohail Khan · 15 Aug