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The world of the privileged that includes voluntary diet control and excessive exercise. (Representational Image/ Pexels)

Ranjona Banerji | The diet where dreams go to die...

And there's that whole dieting industry ready to 'help' you get your wallet so much thinner

22 May 2022 12:27 AM IST

Russian tanks roll along a street in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Manish Tewari | Putin started Ukraine war, West might just end it

This united Europe like never before much the same way as they had come together to resist Hitler's blitzkrieg 1939...

22 May 2022 12:25 AM IST

A post-mortem examination of the victim confirmed rape and then murder by throttling. (AA file photo)

Anita Anand | Rape within marriage: The grey area over consent

Of the 4,169 women who experienced sexual violence, 82 per cent said the perpetrator was their husband

22 May 2022 12:17 AM IST

Secularism is not mere tolerance of other faiths, but a belief in modern values and reason. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Mohan Guruswamy | How Hindus and Muslims misunderstood secularism

Sensitivity to each other's feelings and aspirations has to be a mutual affair

21 May 2022 12:52 AM IST

The universities were the breeding ground of Opposition ideologies and several seniors in the current crop of leaders had their baptism by fire in that period. (Representational Image/ PTI)

AA Edit | Univs should be open to all ideological discourse

If the universities had ended with being a platform for exchange of ideas, India's course of history would have been...

21 May 2022 12:50 AM IST

Nikhat Zareen after winning the gold medal in the 52-kg category in boxing. (Twitter)

AA Edit | Nikhat strikes gold for all women

It seems unremarkable today that so many Indian women should be in sport and competing internationally

21 May 2022 12:25 AM IST

Local civilians walk past a tank destroyed during heavy fighting in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Which is the real War on the West'? By Putin & Trump,...

Indian historians have been rewriting and telling the truth about colonial history for at least a century

21 May 2022 12:22 AM IST

A student holds a mobile phone for another so that he can listen to instructions from a teacher as children wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus attend online classes at a slum on the outskirts of Jammu. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | 5G-6G must cut digital divide

Reports have shown that the education of a large number of children suffered irreparably owing to their inability to...

20 May 2022 12:38 AM IST

There are several petitions before the Supreme Court of India challenging the constitutional validity of the law. (Representational Image/ ANI File)

AA Edit | SC's Rajiv convict ruling also redefines governors' powers

The verdict is more an indictment of the stubbornness of the Centre opposing a state in a federal setup

20 May 2022 12:26 AM IST

Villagers wade through a flooded road after heavy rains in Hojai district of Indias Assam state on May 19, 2022. (Photo:AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Climate crisis to be India's biggest threat...

One reason wheat prices have shot up has to do with the intense heatwave that struck parts of India from March

20 May 2022 12:15 AM IST

Rahul Gandhi (AFP file photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Rahul's role as Congress' heir not at all apparent

It was obvious long before and reconfirmed after political strategist Prashant Kishor's firm but polite refusal of...

19 May 2022 12:12 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Cool-off debate rages on amid MNC absorbing senior...

The recent appointment of Archana Goyal Gulati, former member of Niti Aayog and CCI, at Google, has revived the old...

19 May 2022 12:04 AM IST