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Rahul Baba baiters want to know more about his weird beard -- a question only Rahul and his barber can respond to. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Define free speech as a right

Calumny has been a rather badly abused form of speech not only in Indian politics.

10 July 2023 12:53 AM IST

Shinzo Abe (AP file photo)

Sanjaya Baru | Shinzo Abe's role was key in normalisation of Japan

He re-energised a nation that had begun to stagnate through the 1990s, shaped the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific...

10 July 2023 12:48 AM IST

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. (PTI File Photo)

Anita Katyal | Shinde feeling shaky on top; the making of Ravi Bishnoi

Ajit Pawar is again back as deputy chief minister along with a downgraded Mr Fadnavis.

9 July 2023 12:44 AM IST

Poster of season 2 of The Bear. (Photo: Twitter)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Stop with the food fetishes, seriously!

Why are there so many shows with food as the lead character'?

9 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

Flowers lay at the tomb of Nahel Merzouk in a cemetery in Nanterre, a Paris suburb. (AP Photo/Cara Anna)

Pavan Varma | Muslim lives matter, too, in Paris as well as Delhi

While Islamic violence cannot be condoned, the hypocrisy of the dominant white French is also condemnable.

9 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

NCP Chief Sharad Pawar addresses the media during a press conference at his residence, in New Delhi, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. (PTI)

AA Edit | Should India's politicians have a retirement age?

It is a question the people of India have been asking, too, but in vain, when it comes to the unending careers of...

8 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

The debate around trans-genders is about the rights of people to identify as they wish and not be discriminated in any way for so doing. (Photo by DIPTENDU DUTTA / AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | If you can pick your gender... why can't you choose...

Liberal opinion in the shape of the Scottish Parliament passed a law to allow people to choose their gender.

8 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

US President Joe Biden attends a press conference at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on May 23, 2022. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Equity vs equality: Battle of the visible &...

The court's ruling on affirmative action came on the legal yardstick of strict scrutiny.

8 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets as he addresses at SCO Summit via video conferencing, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Modi's gambit and the BJP

Mr Modi has hit the latest campaign trail this week with visits to Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Rajasthan.

8 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

NCP Chief Sharad Pawar addresses the media during a press conference at his residence, in New Delhi, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Diversity vs homogeneity, as Pawar play rocks Maha

The bottom line seems to be regardless of how many MLAs Ajit Pawar can parade at his meeting, he cannot afford to...

7 July 2023 12:07 AM IST

Tabled first in 2019, and followed up with multiple revisions, the bill seeks to provide an overarching framework of technology regulations. (Image by rawpixel.com in Freepik)

AA Edit | Build consensus on Data Bill

RTI activists contend that the law will dilute the Right to Information Act

7 July 2023 12:05 AM IST

BJP RS member Sushil Modi. (PTI File)

AA Edit | UCC: Make haste slowly... Ensure justice for all first

It is a fact that the personal laws of several communities are not in line with the idea of freedom of a modern society.

7 July 2023 12:01 AM IST