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Opinion
Laggards on foreign soil
Cricket is a game that offers immense scope for an individual to perform, and if he utilises that opportunity, his team benefits too.
‘Biz-friendly’ Bengal: Is Didi coming of age?
Stripped of the hype, the Bengal Global Business Summit was not a failure.
No shades of grey in Hindi films
Today, one should not be surprised, however, if a Hindutva-inspired film portrays a Muslim or Mughal Indian as an out-and-out genocidal maniac.
Mystic Mantra: The daily life of dojo
Much of Zen’s appeal stems from its uncompromising view of the whole man.
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Under Modi & Bibi, a deepening relationship
There may be greater impetus to this aspect. Mr Netanyahu was here with 130 businessmen.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Know India: Let’s appreciate its diversity
Many of us do not know our own country well. School students should be encouraged to know India firsthand.
Friday, January 19, 2018
A few reflections, with eyes closed
If Partition couldn’t have be avoided, the next best option for all would have been Hindustan, the obvious name for the country under Hindu Raj.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Mystic Mantra: Art of conscious birth and death
Whenever there is an opportunity, a situation in which you can be reborn, you will be reborn.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Markets’ rise no surprise
The government would have to scramble for funds by disinvesting PSUs and other sources like tax revenues.
Friday, January 19, 2018
After Haj, will other pilgrim subsidies go?
Going by this argument, each ticket might have cost less than the subsidised ticket on Air India if free competition prevailed among airlines.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Crack down hard in Haryana
It is debatable whether harsher punishments will lead to fewer crimes against women.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Age Debate: Judiciary is a strong pillar
The rift in the Supreme Court will allow politicians to interfere with the judiciary.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Beyond basics, a gender gap looms
The deeply worrying news is that at age 18, 32 per cent of females are not enrolled in any institution as compared to 28 per cent males.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Mystic Mantra: Let’s pray for unity in freedom
Thinking freely also brings splits, be it in families, politics, academics, ideologies, and indeed among religious groups.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Interview of the Week
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How Kerala flattened the curve, lowest death rates: Health minister Shailaja explains
Health department constituted 18 expert groups in training health care staff for detailed stock-taking of beds, equipment in each hospital
‘I don’t support laws that go against Preamble’
We can’t make people stand in queue again like the way it happened during demonetisation, says Hemant Soren.
‘The attack on JNU was barbaric in the least’
All the claims being made by the AAP in the areas of education and health are hugely exaggerated and we will expose them, says Sandeep Dikshit
Let Muslims be like Franciscans, espousing faith
A totalitarian system would reduce the possibility of a confederation of peoples.
The Age Debate
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Age Debate: A win for BJP and the disqualified, really?
The BJP is elated as it can look to their support - if they win the bypolls - to shore up their numbers.
Age Debate: Rafale - Time to clear the air
A joint parliamentary committee probe is the only way to resolve Rafale controversy.
Age Debate: A new roadmap for Kashmir?
Holding municipal/panchayat polls in J&K amid the NC-PDP boycott will be a farce.
Age Debate: Targeting aliens or citizens?
It will be premature to extend the NRC to the whole of India at this juncture.
Reporter's Diary
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Reporters' Diary: Keeping media at bay
UP Chief minister Yogi Adityanath also does not take questions in his press conferences that are, in any case, few and far in-between.
Reporters' Diary: Angrily yours
As the probe began, the SP chose to turn a blind eye to the development and did not issue a single statement in support of Mr Khan.
Reporters' Diary: EX-CMs in UP go house hunting
The problem is that with the Lucknow skyline going up, bungalows with sprawling lawns are now a rarity.
Columns
In Assam and Manipur, the regional parties are minor partners of coalitions led by the BJP.
India’s foot-dragging on signing an FTA, which Male believed had been all but agreed on during President Yameen’s 2016 visit, is one such example.
Export credit is another underserved area that deserves attention in the Budget.
A key component of that dimension was the eagerness of Bob Dylan.
Our Columnists
The writer is a member of Compost Heap, a group of academics and activists working on alternative imaginations.
Kishwar Desai, is the chair of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust, which is setting up the Partition Museum at Town Hall, Amritsar.
Vice Admiral Arun Kumar Singh retired as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy's Eastern Naval Command in 2007. A nuclear and missile specialist trained in the former Soviet Union, he was also DG Indian Coast Guard.
Swapan Dasgupta is a senior journalist.
S Nihal Singh has four editorships under his belt, with globetrotting stints in Singapore, Pakistan, Moscow, London, New York, Paris and Dubai.
