Commentary
Mobile phones: Our modern fetters
As modern gadgets and devices go on to exemplify the giant strides technology has made, one is left wondering at the way they have transitioned from being ‘luxuries’ once to…
Poonam Gaonkar bags silver for Goa in CFCC
NT BUZZ The Cook for Change Challenge (CFCC) – Season 3, organised by the…
Pitch for sustainable growth in Goa
It has been a case of rampant degradation and destruction of the state’s environment which…
Give hope a chance
As New Year kicks in, government and people must resolve to improve happiness index There…
EDM death: Report points to mix of drugs, alcohol
Panaji: The preliminary report into the death of Delhi youth, who died in a hospital…
Lasted Commentary
Problem of old and new media
As life increasingly moves online for work, entertainment, education and much more, forms of earlier media in my study present…
Reframing GDP growth story
India is getting hot as the summer season takes hold. But the hot weather, this year, arriving earlier and feeling…
Linguistic rhetoric and people’s rights
To what extent the written or oral history of the languages democratise the linguistic sphere in the state generally forms…
Use technology to secure properties
When it comes to recording and tracking properties, urban areas in India are notorious for frauds. Deficiency in urban planning…
New lows in Maharashtra politics
“Dilwalon ke dil ka qarar lootne… main aayi hoon UP, Bihar lootne..” The lyrics of the super-hit song from the…
Goa and the ‘outsider’ syndrome
Many villas and high-rise apartments offering luxurious living spaces have come up along picturesque locales across the state The hostility…
Time is ripe for clean-up at SEBI
The regulator can work only if it is seen as working with independence and integrity, without which its efforts to…
History of changing boundaries of Goa-I
The state suffered significant territorial losses from 1788 and had to settle in 1961 with the map of much-truncated Goa,…