Analysis

Trains and alarm chains

By: Chhotebhai When I travel by train I feel relaxed. I am not tensed about the journey because I trust the driver, the guard and the system. I am not ...Read More...

A Public sector hospital shows the way through the ‘green protocol’

Dr. George Jacob The first quarter of 2017 coinciding with the onset of the Southwest Monsoon witnessed citizens of Kerala succumb to fevers of assorted kinds smudging the otherwise ...Read More...

Black hole in heart

If only metaphors could heal. It’s been 32 years since the late demographer Ashish Bose coined that famously disparaging phrase ‘Bimaru states’, in a one-page report to the then ...Read More...

Parliamentarians and their funds

There have been reports that many MPs return the fund underutilizedRead More...

Kerala nurses and their woes

A medical doctor takes a critical look at the problems of nurses in KeralaRead More...

How did Indian Universities get alienated from society?

The academics need to look within ourselves self-critically and diagnose our problems most honestlyRead More...

Women must have right over choice

Sudha Varghese Walking through the streets of Danapur, my ears are filled with the voices of exuberant young girls. Contrary to the timid behaviour that much of society expects ...Read More...

Modi’s strongman economics

By ADAM ROBERTS Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India has strong views on economics. Speaking to a big crowd of tycoons, investors and journalists in New Delhi, Mr. Modi ...Read More...

Ban plastic to save Kerala from high fever

Dr. George Jacob Kochi: Kerala is running high fever- of various kinds. Of 19,000 people who reported to hospitals with fever on June 3, 2017, 680 were suspected cases ...Read More...

Why a ‘cashless’ society would hurt poor

By Dana Kornberg India recently tried to reduce the use of cash in its economy by eliminating, overnight, two of its most widely used bills in what was called ...Read More...