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Winston Churchill
Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Hike Indian Navy funding to befit a rising sea power
A strong, effective Navy can’t be built in a day, nor does it forgive a lackadaisical approach to maintenance or modernisation
03 Dec 2022 12:00 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | When fantasy pretends to be history… Does truth prevail?
Gentle reader, there has always been a conflict between truth and blind nationalist interpretation of events
26 Nov 2022 12:00 AM
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can a ‘flexible’ Liz Truss usher in ‘Global Britain’?
Long the front-runner in the race to replace Boris Johnson, Ms Truss is the Conservatives’ fourth Prime Minister since the 2015 election
07 Sep 2022 12:05 AM
Aakar Patel | What India will we leave for future generations? Some thoughts on I-Day
The people are useful for the State as they give it legitimacy, but they are also seen as a nuisance that gets in the way of government
17 Aug 2021 2:52 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Why democracy often turns ugly: Prejudice & hate as Batley votes
The byelection for a Member of Parliament in the Yorkshire constituency of Batley was a paradigm of this ugliness
03 Jul 2021 12:20 AM
Britain cannot ‘photoshop’ its cultural landscape: Johnson
PM Johnson defends Churchill, criticises 'distortion of our history'
15 Jun 2020 9:13 AM
Authorities remove slave trader statue in London
Statues glorifying slave traders and colonialists have come into sharp focus in recent days inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests
10 Jun 2020 12:38 PM
UK protesters take down slave trader’s statue, dump it in harbour
Protesters also defaced statue of former British PM Winston Churchill, crossing out his last name and painting 'was a racist' underneath
08 Jun 2020 9:35 AM
Modi, Trump take ties to a more robust level
The visuals were beamed live across India, the United States and at least half the world.
28 Feb 2020 6:25 AM
In the age of post-truths, what colour is your favourite lie?
The thing is, this all gets messy remarkably quickly, because of the sheer variety of ways there are of being wrong.
05 Jan 2020 2:29 AM
Thirty years after fall of Berlin Wall, democracy in Europe is in danger
Inevitably, this has consequences, both within nation states and in the wider European context.
07 Nov 2019 4:10 AM
Solid gold toilet, once offered to Donald Trump, stolen from London palace
The toilet, valued at roughly 1 million pounds (USD 1.25 million), was the work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.
15 Sep 2019 4:28 PM
Mystic Mantra: The gentle art of charity
Anonymous benevolence directed to causes that unlike people can give nothing in return is the noblest form of philanthropy.
25 Apr 2019 1:24 AM
Britain refuses to apologise for Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Britain's high commissioner to India laid a wreath on the 100th anniversary of the massacre, for which London is still to apologise.
13 Apr 2019 2:40 PM
Seek answers for Pulwama, dissent precisely during crises
Britain showed prime minister Neville Chamberlain the door during the Second World War.
10 Mar 2019 12:05 AM
Humour more effective poll tool than expletives
The actor-President of the United States of America, Ronald Reagan, had a tremendous sense of humour.
20 Jan 2019 12:03 AM
Chess game democracy in the UK?
It’s pocket science to realise that democracy means very different things in different countries and institutions.
29 Sep 2018 12:48 AM
Cabinet war rooms & the rise of ideologies
Opposed to Indian Independence Churchill was also squarely responsible for the Great Bengal Famine of the 1940s.
02 Sep 2018 12:05 AM
69 years of republic: It’s time to introspect
The standards of public health and education need urgent attention.
28 Jan 2018 12:13 AM
A nation that ignores its darkest hour
Winston Churchill is still a very outsized figure in India.
26 Jan 2018 1:44 AM
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