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Union Home Minister Amit Shah. (PTI)

Anita Katyal | Why Shah held back in Bihar; hunt for unhappy Trinamul...

The BJP had decided that it would play down the communal card in Bihar as identity politics usually takes precedence...

16 Nov 2020 11:25 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (PTI)

Pavan K Varma | Will apex court protect liberty for all citizens?

The administering of justice should never be selective, or so lacking in humanity that it revolts the human conscience

16 Nov 2020 10:31 AM IST

US President Donald Trump. (AFP)

Shobhaa De | How to be a good loser Don needs crash course

It is said true character gets revealed not when you win big but when you lose even bigger

13 Nov 2020 10:14 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi (AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Open letter to PM Modi: Let Bharat Mata set an...

"Narendraji, there is one country that can offer examples of an attitude, a policy towards the future and set ideals for...

13 Nov 2020 10:05 PM IST

Voters stand in queues to cast their votes at a polling station during the third phase of Bihar Assembly Elections, at Mahua in Vaishali district, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. (PTI Photo)

Sanjiwan Sahni | Forum of CMs: An idea whose time has come'

This would be a democratic forum as all members would be representatives chosen on the basis of their success in the...

13 Nov 2020 10:40 AM IST

Cover of Wajahat Habibullahs recent book My Years with Rajiv. (Twitter/@WestlandBooks)

Karan Thapar | New insights on Rajiv, but questions remain

Biographies written by friends is likely to gloss over incidents that could embarrass the subject, like Habibullah's 'My...

13 Nov 2020 10:23 AM IST

Voters stand in queues to cast their votes at a polling station during the third phase of Bihar Assembly Elections, at Mahua in Vaishali district, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. (PTI Photo)

No real winner in Bihar; Nitish, Tejashwi lose out

The 2020 Bihar Assembly election has ended without any real winners

12 Nov 2020 8:12 PM IST

BJP workers celebrate Dubbak bypoll win

Dubbaka nailbiter may have changed Telangana politics

Today, the TRS will rue that it precipitated the decline and uprooting of several parties in the state

12 Nov 2020 7:26 PM IST

President Donald Trump gives two thumbs up to supporters as he departs after playing golf at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling Va., Sunday Nov. 8, 2020. (AP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Why presidential system might not suit India...

Many world leaders secretly aspire to the methods and priorities that made Trump such a sinister authoritarian figure of...

11 Nov 2020 11:46 AM IST

President-elect Joe Biden speaks Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. (AP)

Vishnu Prakash | India-US ties might be stronger under Biden

The question that is uppermost in the minds of most Indians is about Biden's disposition towards India and China

11 Nov 2020 11:30 AM IST

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot gestures to the media after a meeting with the party MLAs at his residence in Jaipur. PTI

Dilip Cherian | Centre denies Gehlot his chosen babu

Until the last working day of outgoing chief secretary Rajeev Swarup, the Gehlot government hoped to push for a tenure...

11 Nov 2020 11:19 AM IST

People exercise in Green Park in central London on November 8, 2020 during a second national lockdown designed to contain soaring infections of the novel coronavirus. (AFP)

Kishwar Desai | London Diary

Locked down yet again, UK knows the rules but likes them less and less

9 Nov 2020 11:04 AM IST