Emerging market forex volatility has dominated financial news headlines in the recent past. As the world emerges from a decade of expansionary monetary policy, one can expect a realignment of the risk metrics across the spectrum. What noted investor Benjamin Graham said -- "In the short run, a market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine" -- holds true as one tides over the volatility.

Ten years ago, on September 15, 2008, the dream run of the world economy came undone with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, revealing a rotten scaffolding of financial skulduggery beneath.

“India gave historic judgement by decriminalising Section 377; gay marriage is legal in India. The society is changing...Congratulations! Now we are part of liberal society”, said my Facebook post. It had many likes and shares but remark in the comment box made me write this article.” 

Those travelling to England for the first time in the sixties were recipients of a tract from the British High Commission listing the dos and don'ts. Among the don'ts was a paragraph in italics:

The week gone by marked the first death anniversary of braveheart Gauri Lankesh, whose murder shook the nation and thrust her in the limelight -- but all too late. The ringmasters of the well-planned murder as well as the actual offenders of the horrendous act remain at large, or yet-to-be-proven-guilty, but her passing has left a void in the lives of those who knew her closely, and those who discovered her thereafter in the pages she penned.

More than the social impact of the Supreme Court's judgment on gay rights, what will be of concern to the ruling party at the Centre is its political fallout. Hence, the eloquent silence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the subject.

Punjab politics is simmering again for the reasons that have chances and possibilities of emotional outbursts and misadventures by political participants. The political situation in Punjab can go out of control with the slightest provocation and mishandling. Punjab politics these days reeks of blood- the like of which we have seen during the Eighties. The time-such as Punjab is going through, need a political force with the vision that could pull through the current economic slowdown, which is breeding many social tensions. But instead, the current political leadership, incumbent as well as the opposition, has fallen in the same old trap of easy-way-out communal and emotional agendas.

New Delhi: Religion is blamed for the "dirt it carries" but the fault lies elsewhere, says a timely new book on the subject given the difficult period India and the rest of the world is going through.

There is a general sense of euphoria after the just concluded Asian Games. But, actually, there is more reason to grieve for Indian sport.

Last month's occurrence of 70 earthquakes in just 48 hours along the "Pacific Ring of Fire" sparked fears that a big temblor is on the way to rattle California on the US West Coast.