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Lanka takes positive stridesOpinion
Lanka takes positive strides

A remarkable feature of the run-up to the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls is that the Sri Lankan Tamil question has created no...

10 April 2016 1:11 AM IST

Social change is not wrought in a dayOpinion
Social change is not wrought in a day

Democratic change in an ancient society such as ours is fascinating to watch for purposes of study, but difficult to...

10 April 2016 1:10 AM IST

Non-cooperation in Vyapam probeOpinion
Non-cooperation in Vyapam probe

Here’s another scam probe that seems to be going nowhere.

10 April 2016 1:00 AM IST

Why make rules for everythingOpinion
Why make rules for everything

In the fall of 2003, I was walking in the middle of the night through Stockholm, when I saw a lady walking with ski...

10 April 2016 12:56 AM IST

Prohibition: A failed ideaOpinion
Prohibition: A failed idea

The famous sociologist M.N. Srinivas said prohibition of alcohol was actually a Sanskritic act, like cow slaughter.

10 April 2016 12:54 AM IST

Surjya Kanta Mishra. (Photo: Abhijit Mukherjee)Opinion
‘A natak is going on as the BJP does not want Didi to lose...

Surjya Kanta Mishra was elected Communist Party of India (Marxist) state secretary in March 2015 when, after suffering...

10 April 2016 12:52 AM IST

Pakistan’s doublespeakOpinion
Pakistan’s doublespeak

Pakistan’s refusal to allow India’s National Investigation Agency to visit Pakistan to probe the Pathankot...

8 April 2016 11:48 PM IST

Maha apathyOpinion
Maha apathy

The news that pitches for Indian Premier League will be using up close to 60 lakh litres of water for maintenance at...

8 April 2016 11:47 PM IST

Appeasement at IITOpinion
Appeasement at IIT

The Indian Institutes of Technology’s decision to hike their fees from Rs 90,000 to Rs 2 lakh for the upcoming...

8 April 2016 11:35 PM IST

Culture vulturesOpinion
Culture vultures

In the post-Christian world, new sins are born. “Thou shalt not culturally appropriate” — and there...

8 April 2016 11:33 PM IST

The discreet charm of Amitabh BachchanOpinion
The discreet charm of Amitabh Bachchan

It’s been a strange week for Amitabh Bachchan: One day mentioned as the prospective President of India, a couple...

8 April 2016 11:28 PM IST

IITs must expand tooOpinion
IITs must expand too

To raise the annual fees to the IITs was the easy part.

8 April 2016 11:25 PM IST

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