Whether the misery inflicted by Covid-19 or by the Bengal famine in the 1930s, a state must gear up and provide for the welfare of the weakest. When they fail, we must call it what it is, violence by hunger.

One potential solution could involve purchasing stubble from farmers and storing it at nearby manned centres. Technologies such as the Pusa dispenser could be used to convert the stubble into manure. 

Something had to erupt in Gaza, in the face of the extreme and inhuman provocation which has gone on for decades, says leading Hindi writer.

If we could descend – as soon as we got rid of colonial rule – to sectarian violence when we were fans of highly principled people like Gandhi, imagine what we are capable of when our political icons themselves preach sectarianism.

Here and now, we are living in a post-truth era, as we blindly believe what we are told by our rulers because we are afraid to face the truth.

Do those who believe in separating women's writing think that all women write the same way?

Strangely enough, or perhaps characteristically, the Prime Minister did not promise severe action against the killers of writers, rational thinkers and ordinary people suspected of eating beef.