Special Reports
Special Correspondent The latest Telangana High Court order is significant — but perhaps not for the reasons being claimed by either side When the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) enters a courtroom, it is rarely just another legal proceeding. Given the association’s long history of disputes, competing claims, administrative controversies and interventions by courts and cricketing…
The Union Government’s openness to suggestions on how to improve the country’s education system is a welcome opportunity for academicians, educators, industry professionals, students, and concerned citizens to contribute to a larger national conversation. Education is too important to be left only to policymakers and institutions. Those who teach, learn, employ and work with young…
An Aggrieved Entrepreneur An MSME can survive a bad market. What it cannot survive is a government that does not pay and a banking system that punishes it for waiting. India today is repeatedly told that its entrepreneurial ecosystem is thriving, that MSMEs are the backbone of the economy and that the government has put…
My experience with the Art of Living has been truly transformative. I attended the Happiness Program in October 2025, and the breathing techniques I learnt there brought about a remarkable change in my overall well-being and in the way I approached everyday life. I could genuinely feel a positive difference in my energy, outlook and…
Bharat cannot become a technological power while remaining dependent on others for the silicon brains that run its economy and defend its sovereignty Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan is entitled to question the Narendra Modi government’s semiconductor strategy. Economists should question government spending. Subsidies must be scrutinised. Public money cannot be wasted. But there is…
(…..Continued) Part I raised a straightforward but deeply uncomfortable question: how can HCA’s constitutional disqualification provisions remain effectively dormant for years when criminal cases involving serving and former office-bearers have continued through prolonged litigation? The answer may lie entirely in the normal pace of the judicial process. But there is another episode that makes it…
What if the ancient concept of Brahma—the cosmic observer who sees and understands the universe beyond the limitations of ordinary human perception—could be imagined through the lens of modern physics? It may sound like an unusual question, but a fascinating thought experiment emerges when the ancient description of the four Yugas is viewed alongside Einstein’s…
Special Correspondent Should a person named as an accused in a corruption case be allowed to vote in Hyderabad Cricket Association elections? Should he be permitted to contest those elections — and even win? And, having won, should he be allowed to occupy a position of authority in an institution whose own constitution contains a…
U Lakshman Rao In today’s digital life, “Good Morning” has become more than a greeting for many people. Every day, WhatsApp fills with verses, quotations, downloaded pictures, motivational messages, jokes, religious thoughts, philosophical views and assorted material from different platforms. The sender often believes that forwarding such content is a thoughtful and meaningful gesture. The…
It was in the year 1988, in May, at the peak of summer in Hyderabad, that a visit to Sikkim, Darjeeling and Kalimpong via Siliguri and Bagdogra, after a flight to Calcutta, remains nostalgic even today. Glimpses of that journey remain captured in the mind as though etched there eternally. The Himalayan ranges are a…
