Address

* Our institutions of democracy are under stress. * The Parliament has been converted into an arena of combat rather than debate. * If the institutions of democracy are under pressure, it is time for serious thinking by the people and…

President Pranab Mukherjee Sunday said political discourse that "cuts and wounds" people’s hearts was “abhorrent" to India’s traditional ethos. In his customary address to the nation on the eve of Republic Day, Mukherjee said: “The freedom…