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Farmers carry an effigy during their ongoing Delhi Chalo agitation against the new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi on Sunday, December 6 (PTI/Manvender Vashist)

AA Edit | Lessons from Delhi border

The government's propaganda machine, however, is jealous of the confident, new farmer

13 Dec 2020 11:59 PM IST

In this file photo taken on December 8, 2020 a member of staff draws the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine out of a phial at the Southmead Hospital, Briston. (Graeme Robertson / various sources / AFP)

Shobhaa De | V is for valour, victory But V is also for vaccine!

Questions about decisions that will affect the heath and well-being of our planet will be decided by politicians!

12 Dec 2020 9:01 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Why we need to tolerate' all those who have contrary...

If language is the avatar of thought, then ideas, propositions and proofs are the recipes in the avatar's cookbook

12 Dec 2020 8:38 AM IST

BJP National President JP Nadda is greeted by his party supporters on his arrival in Kolkata on Wednesday, December 9, 2020. BJP MP Locket Chatterjee is also seen. (PTI /Ashok Bhaumik)

AA Edit | Maintain decorum and probe Nadda cavalcade stoning

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee can hardly be said to have covered herself with glory when she rhymed disparagingly on Mr...

12 Dec 2020 7:22 AM IST

Cover page of the Calligraphic copy of the Constitution of India in English released on the Golden Jubilee Celebration of Republic of India in Central Hall of Parliament House on January 27, 2000 (Photo credit: Department of Justice, Governemnt of India)

Karan Thapar | How Nehru had gutted the Constitution in 1951

So sweeping were the changes that constitutional scholar Upendra Baxi calls the post-amendment document 'the second...

11 Dec 2020 9:12 AM IST

AA Edit | Breaking up Big Tech

The Internet may not be that much different for users if Facebook were to hive off WhatsApp or Amazon were to divest its...

11 Dec 2020 7:33 AM IST

AA Edit | Democracy and reforms: How much is too much?

Niti Aayog CEO had recently said that 'tough reforms' were difficult in the Indian context because there was 'too much...

10 Dec 2020 12:09 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Boris' fumbling holds lessons for the world

While British waters are much richer in fish than the seas surrounding Europe, British trawlers make their money selling...

10 Dec 2020 12:05 AM IST

Leher Sethi | Is air pollution a greater pandemic than coronavirus?

As a parent, I dread Delhi winters, not just because of the cold, but because of the terrible pollution in the air

10 Dec 2020 12:01 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Babus angered by Haryana IAS cadre post appointments

Haryana IAS officer and well-known whistleblower Ashok Khemka has entered the fray with his take on the issue

9 Dec 2020 8:01 PM IST

Anand K. Sahay | At the Singhu border: An agitation like none other

Is it a farmers' 'sit-in' when the protest stretches over many invisible miles, or is it the whole society marching on...

9 Dec 2020 7:57 PM IST

Brahmaputra River (Photo: Youtube)

Mohan Guruswamy | Worry on Brahmaputra waters seems misplaced

A published paper estimates that the utilisable water of the Brahmaputra system is just four percent of the total...

8 Dec 2020 9:16 AM IST