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The battle between the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamul Congress and its main challenger, the BJP, is intensifying with both sides pulling no punches in showing the other one down. (Photo: PTI)

Anita Katyal | Mithun made to wait after biting bait; Mamata's game of...

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has been proactive in denying access to journalists to Parliament

21 March 2021 4:36 AM IST

We have new custodians of morality who are easily outraged by anything that does not fit into their conservative, upper-caste, patriarchal and outdated notions of correct behaviour. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan Varma | Let it rip! Stop us turning into the Republic of Hurt

A highly unwarranted subjectivity driven by medieval cultural notions and political hubris is threatening creative...

21 March 2021 4:00 AM IST

Shobhaa De | Something rotten Why is Maha in such a mess?

The political golmal going on in Mumbai reads like a tawdry, hastily written script of a C-grade 1970s' Bollywood flop

20 March 2021 11:50 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | For UK, Sarah Everard killing a wake-up call like...

To Britain the murder of Sarah was what the Nirbhaya rape-murder was to India

20 March 2021 11:45 AM IST

The Union government must use technology to the optimum to ensure that vaccine wastage is brought to a minimum. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Rural surge scary, act now to stop second Covid wave

While the first phase of Covid wave was in the metros and big cities of the country, the recent surge is reported from...

19 March 2021 4:56 AM IST

If Rahul Gandhi is going to be our Prime Minister one day, he needs to learn how to handle awkward situations, in particular those connected to his familys past. (Photo: PTI)

Karan Thapar | Of Rahul, Indira and the mistake' of Emergency

Indira Gandhi didn't think the Emergency was a mistake and she certainly didn't apologise for it

19 March 2021 4:45 AM IST

A diverse, multiracial society like America must own up that it has a huge racial problem in which visibly successful migrants are increasingly the victims of racial abuse, harassment and violent hate crimes. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Guns, racism & crime in US

As an epidemic, hate crime is on the rise in the USA, its graph exploding exponentially since the outbreak of the...

19 March 2021 4:12 AM IST

Chinas insistence that those who apply for a visa should have inoculated themselves with a Chinese-made vaccine defies logic and scientific principles, and reflects a total ignorance about the objective realities about the pandemic situation in the world. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | China's Catch-22 on vaccine

Vaccination for all must be a universal goal at present, and every nation, including China, should be part of it

18 March 2021 4:46 AM IST

If the women voters of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu vote the way they have voted in the past, it would give an edge to these two parties in the respective states. (Representational Photo: PTI)

Sanjay Kumar | Women voters to play critical role in Bengal & TN...

Women voters are turning out to vote in large numbers both in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections

18 March 2021 4:41 AM IST

Indians who complain loudly and aggressively against the offensive behaviour of white people in the West fall into the same kind of behaviour at home when we deal with blacks and all non-white people whether they are visitors or students. (Representational Photo: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Let's talk about racism Fight it at home,...

Discrimination based on colour is a habit of the mind among people across the length and breadth of Indian society

18 March 2021 4:23 AM IST

The proposed change in law introduced by the Modi government will effectively render the Arvind Kejriwal government superfluous, practically reducing the present Delhi Assembly which was brought into existence in 1993 under the NCT Act- to a nullity. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Why does Centre want a 'viceroy' to run Delhi?

Modi govt plans to constitutionally aggrandise the office of the lieutenant governor of Delhi at the expense of the...

18 March 2021 4:20 AM IST

People hold up signs during a vigil to reflect on the murder of 33 year old marketing executive, Sarah Everard, in London, Monday, March 15, 2021. The British government is under pressure to do more to protect women and ensure the right to protest as Parliament prepares to debate a sweeping crime bill amid anger over the way police broke up a vigil for a young murder victim abducted on the streets of London. (AP/Matt Dunham)

AA Edit | Soul-search for Sarah

In India, or in countries outside Western Europe and North America, such happenings will be criticised but will not be...

17 March 2021 9:00 AM IST