The increasing camaraderie between democratic India and authoritarian Myanmar, notorious for trampling the democratic aspirations of its countrymen, is obviously frustrating and outrageous to the advocates of democracy in Myanmar as well as the thousands of Myanmarese refugees staying in India for years, but the imperatives of the evolving balance-of-power dynamics in the Southeast Asian region gi...

What is the class of Sohra, the famed tourist destination in the picturesque State of Meghalaya?  It is ‘‘third class’’, according to National Commission for Minorities (NCM) vice-chairman HT Sangliana, a retired IPS officer who hails from Mizoram and was Commissioner of Police of Bangalore City. He was referring to the tourism infrastructure and basic amenities in Soh...

For years our government turn a blind eye to illegal mining in our country and when Maoists take vicious advantage of the sufferings of displaced tribals to indulge in large-scale killings, our ministers finally wake up. In the first place, ore of any kind should not be exported to any country, least of all to China. We sell to China our precious possessions, ore and not manufactured goods, and th...