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Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Mystic Mantra: Remembering Gandhian non-violence on Martyrs' Day

The world was wonderstruck at how Gandhiji, then armed with nothing but potent non-violent armaments.

30 Jan 2020 4:24 AM IST

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (Photo: AP)

Jair's repertoire: Racism, misogyny, climate change

Bolsonaro's penchant for crudity is reminiscent of Rodrigo Duterte, but he wears with pride the tag Trump of the...

30 Jan 2020 4:21 AM IST

I keep advising the girls to talk to their parents, even if its not easy for them to do so. Indian society remains conservative even over 70 years after Independence.

Parents, don't hold back girls, stand by them

The girl didn't feel comfortable sharing her problem with her father.

30 Jan 2020 4:19 AM IST

They want lawmakers to include New Mexico in a federal law that compensates residents near atomic tests (Photo: AFP)

Is world closer to apocalypse? All need to see the big picture

This unprecedented global task cannot be ignored just because it is considered impossible.

30 Jan 2020 4:12 AM IST

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. (Photo: File)

Bodos: Politics to begin where insurgency ends

The other Bodo insurgent group, Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT), had already signed a peace accord in 2003.

30 Jan 2020 4:08 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: File)

Liberal, if curious precedent

The case pertains to the massacre in Ode village in Gujarat's Anand district on March 1, 2002, in the aftermath of the...

30 Jan 2020 4:02 AM IST

BJP president and Union home minister Amit Shah

Hate speeches in Delhi: Will EC finally step in?

The signs on the ground were contrary, although Mr Modi was the tireless star campaigner.

30 Jan 2020 4:00 AM IST

Prime minister Narendra Modi

Foreign triggers that spurred rise of Modi

It was a long hard-hitting poem on the grand betrayal of the Indian people, an acerbic version of Faiz's plaint about...

29 Jan 2020 2:36 AM IST

Shutting down the Internet seems to have become standard operating procedure. Not different in essence from the lockdown enforced by the daroghas fearful bamboo cane and shouting the orders: Bandh karo .

Regulating the Internet: A darogha is a total misfit

Section 144 of the Indian Criminal Procedure Code is one such instrument used to lock down a potentially troublesome...

29 Jan 2020 2:33 AM IST

ut just by thinking about relaxing things, we are not going to feel relaxed. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Of balance between awareness and pain

I think most doctors would calibrate it to numb the system only to the extent that the pain is taken away.

29 Jan 2020 2:32 AM IST

The only way to get rid of Trump is to vote him out

Yet, for all his flaws, in one crucial respect Trump is a rational and shrewd operator.

29 Jan 2020 2:29 AM IST

Nirmala Sitharaman

New thinking is needed, Band-Aids won't suffice

The government has been firefighting since FY 2019 using mostly Band-Aids of the cheapest kinds.

29 Jan 2020 2:26 AM IST