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A nurse, right, performs rituals to a box containing COVID-19 vaccines upon its arrival at a government Hospital in Ahmedabad, India, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. (AP /Ajit Solanki)

AA Edit | Transparency the key to success of vaccine drive

If a vaccine is under trial and has not gone through the due process, its administration should be called clinical...

18 Jan 2021 12:10 AM IST

Given its abject failures on the economic front, the BJP/RSS regime in New Delhi is now pushing India towards a Hindutva nationhood, by seeking to victimise a minority for the perceived wrongs and slights of the past. (Representative Photo:AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | An important lesson from India's history for PM Modi

An intolerant religion can never be the basis of nationhood and national unity in India

17 Jan 2021 4:29 AM IST

Im not the sort of writer who spent the Pandemic lockdown carefully crafting my creative skills and honing my talent so I could write that exemplar novel, that series of high philosophy essays to understand humanity, that definitive book on the state of the nation. (Representative Photo)

Ranjona Banerji | My one true calling and how life got in the way

As an adolescent, like most others, I wrote those poems. Emotions crystallized in show-off nonsense from studying...

17 Jan 2021 4:14 AM IST

The Akalis, who have been the major political voice of the Sikhs, have not been in the forefront of the agitation now that they walked out of the government and the NDA on the very same issue.(Representational Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Why Akali Dal's voice is missing in...

It is not clear what the equation is between the Akalis and the leaders of the farmers' unions

17 Jan 2021 4:06 AM IST

So a step the Holy See takes to rework its hugely patriarchal system and make it more inclusive would be making history, and will have a catalytic and cascading effect. (Photo:AFP)

AA Edit | A seat at the table

The Pope, however, has once again refused to give women the permission to become priests

16 Jan 2021 12:05 AM IST

US President Donald Trump . (AP)

AA Edit | Does America have spine to convict its President?

Faith in the system has also eroded at a time when the pandemic has killed more Americans than World War II and Vietnam...

16 Jan 2021 12:05 AM IST

This year elections are due in two states in the east -- West Bengal and Assam -- and three states/UTs in the south -- Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Its important to note that all these are now governed by different parties and no party has a government in more than one state. (Representative Photo)

Sanjay Kumar | Elections 2021: A mixed bag of hope & challenges

2021 is going to be more eventful, as five states are going to the polls in the middle of this year

16 Jan 2021 12:05 AM IST

The deniers of vaccination who pose a puzzle are those who have no such complete theory of the universe. What they have instead is the Internet through which the most abject nonsense is spread. (Representational Photo:AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Time for all to get Covid jabs; don't listen to...

There are millions of idiots around the world who are anti-vaccers

16 Jan 2021 12:00 AM IST

AA Edit | Policy not court's brief

The SC's job is to determine the constitutionality or otherwise of a legislation, not whether it is in the public...

14 Jan 2021 12:28 AM IST

AA Edit | Election fever grips TN as early hustings begin

The battle lines have been drawn between the two traditional rivals, who have been ruling the state alternately since...

14 Jan 2021 12:22 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Karnataka home secy shunted out for calling Safe City...

Public spats are rarely pretty and the one between these two senior IPS officers has brought out the intense rivalries...

14 Jan 2021 12:11 AM IST

A health worker shows the Covishield vaccine, after arrival of the first batch of the vaccines from the Serum Institute of India. (PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Is new normal' really a return to the old...

For a fleeting while, optimists wondered if the Covid-19 pandemic had sledgehammered some fundamental lessons into us

14 Jan 2021 12:03 AM IST