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Muslim community members offer prayers on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramzan, outside Bandra railway station. (Photo: Mrugesh Bandiwadekar)

The idea of Hindu rashtra is vague

Prohibition of alcohol and cow slaughter already exist in our laws in some form and in many states.

30 Sept 2018 5:28 AM IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Photo: MEA | Twitter)

We need more women in politics

Certainly the lack of adequate representation of women in politics is not because of a lack of talent.

23 Sept 2018 2:41 AM IST

Chandra Shekhar

How marginalised create space for themselves

Azad calls himself Ravanâ€, to identify with those aspects of our culture that others may see as repulsive.

16 Sept 2018 12:05 AM IST

LGBTQ community members celebrate after the Supreme Court verdict which decriminalises consensual gay sex, in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

Politics must reflect our rights

A century before Turing, the great English author Oscar Wilde was also convicted for the crime of being a homosexual.

9 Sept 2018 7:02 AM IST

Delhi HC had said that for the time being Navlakha will be confined to his residence in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Law never takes its own course in India

As we now know, the Supreme Court is to hear this again on September 6. Many of us will be watching what it does with...

2 Sept 2018 12:08 AM IST

K. T. Rama Rao, Minister for Information Technology, Telangana.

Government by Twitter

Some Ministers have been quick to grasp the power and reach of micro- blogging sites.

26 Aug 2018 6:36 AM IST

A search and rescue operation was underway for more than 30 people who have been swept away by flash floods in the fishing village of Anungan. (Photo: AFP)

Denying foreign aid to Kerala is cruelty

The Kerala government says that the United Arab Emirates has offered Rs 700 crore which the government in Delhi said it...

26 Aug 2018 5:46 AM IST

A file photograph of Atal Behari Vajpayee at the PMO.

Remembering two famous men who left us

Naipaul was disliked by almost everyone in India who had read his book (not many have) or were familiar with what he...

19 Aug 2018 1:15 AM IST

There was some resentment towards such people, particularly in the rural areas that later voted overwhelmingly in favour of leaving the European Union, or Brexit , meaning the British exit from the EU.

Why referendum is not a good idea

A referendum is a general vote on a single political question, usually with a yes/no answer that the nation must...

12 Aug 2018 4:58 AM IST

In no other country I have seen the tradition of offering a guest or a stranger who has come uninvited to your house, a glass of water.

Is Atithi Devo Bhava still an Indian credo?

Those of us who think of ourselves as Hindus, must consider what the true meaning of being Hindu is in light of such...

5 Aug 2018 5:50 AM IST

Sources said that though junior level officials from both sides were having flag meetings.

We're not at war, but we're never at peace

The south and the east of India are different, but then those differences exist inside India as well.

29 July 2018 12:58 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in the Lok Sabha on no-confidence motion during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (Photo: AP via PTI)

No-trust motion exposed disarray in Oppn

Perhaps the real intent then was for the Opposition to launch its campaign for 2019 through this effort.

22 July 2018 12:08 AM IST