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There was the Platinum Party at Buckingham Palace with singers like Diana Ross, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Duran Duran and composers such as Andrew Llyod Weber which drew at least 22,000 people and provided a foot tapping history of pop music past and present. (Reuters)

Kishwar Desai | Queen's Platinum Jubilee takes on a Bollywood touch...

Indians were in full flow at the 6,000 street parties all over the country

6 Jun 2022 12:03 AM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The Language of Love

When people from diverse linguistic backgrounds need to communicate with each other, they will find ways

5 Jun 2022 12:59 AM IST

What we must first do is disabuse ourselves of any fanciful nations that India either has strategic interests or can be a player in Afghanistan. (Representational Image/ Bloomberg)

Manish Tewari | Does India have strategic interests in Afghanistan?

The fact is that India has been a bit player in Afghanistan since 1979

5 Jun 2022 12:36 AM IST

Elections for the 60-member Manipur Assembly are taking place in two phases, that is, February 28 and March 5. (Photo: PTI/File)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | RS polls: A chance to wean out old-timers,...

Politics of fairly high stakes are being played out by various parties in choosing candidates for the Upper House

4 Jun 2022 12:54 AM IST

Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao. (DC)

AA Edit | A battle of narratives as Telangana state turns 8

The TRS promises to protect the plural tradition of happy cohabitation of the Hindu-Muslim brotherhood

4 Jun 2022 12:53 AM IST

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. (By Arrangement)

AA Edit | A backlash to #MeToo?

This comes at a time when domestic assault is chronically underreported to the extent of just two in five cases brought...

4 Jun 2022 12:15 AM IST

Recently, the local government of the city of Grantham in Lincolnshire, UK, spent Â£300,000 on a statue of Margaret Thatcher, Britains first woman Prime Minister. (Twitter)

Farrukh Dhondy | The rewriting of history: How do toppling of statues...

All statues commemorate some real, legendary or imagined virtue

4 Jun 2022 12:01 AM IST

Bollywood playback singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK during his performance, at Nazrul Mancha in Kolkata, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. The singer passed away after being rushed to CMRI Hospital in the city where he was declared dead on arrival. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | The show must not go on

One simply fails to understand how the organisers can get everything wrong and the authorities merrily allow the concert...

3 Jun 2022 12:33 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public rally, in Shimla, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Politics of us' and them': The myths and the...

Hindutva is spoken beneath the breath by the leadership but in high decibels by supporters

3 Jun 2022 12:21 AM IST

Enforcement Directorate. (Representational Image)

AA Edit | ED probe on Sonia, Rahul must not turn vindictive

The Enforcement Directorate summons to the Gandhis on June 8 did come as a surprise to most people

3 Jun 2022 12:03 AM IST

Hardik Patel (PTI pic)

Sunil Gatade | The Gujarat extraction': Hardik's journey to BJP

Hardik bidding goodbye to the Congress over a week ago had not come as a surprise, much less shock

2 Jun 2022 12:53 AM IST

The economy had contracted by 7.3 per cent in 2020-21 on account of impact of COVID pandemic. (Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | The growth story continues

Investment has been the main driver of India's GDP growth during the last financial year

2 Jun 2022 12:36 AM IST