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Congress president Rahul Gandhi

Poverty, politics and posturing: How to build a better, less unequal...

Rahul Gandhi has announced that if voted to power, his party's government would give Rs 6,000 per month each to the...

10 April 2019 1:26 AM IST

Lord Thomson, the Canadian media baron who ruled Londons Fleet Street for decades, described news as the grey stuff between ads.

How wars can be turned into stories that will move markets

Wire agencies run on the principle of news flashes, keeping as close to real time of an event as possible.

10 April 2019 1:26 AM IST

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the release BJPs manifesto for the upcoming general elections in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 8, 2019. (Photo; AP)

Sankalp Patra: How real are the BJP's promises?

We are far from junking top down, paternalistic, big man rule. Regional political leaders are no different in their...

10 April 2019 1:25 AM IST

The EC, mandated to providing a level playing field, must know justice must not only be done but be seen to be done.

One-sided raids wrong

The EC, mandated to providing a level playing field, must know justice must not only be done but be seen to be done.

10 April 2019 1:25 AM IST

Nationalism' apart, it is a sketchy roadmap

A ruling party with serious plans, if it gained an encore, is not expected to issue its charter of intentions just three...

10 April 2019 1:25 AM IST

Yoga is the journey from A to B. A, is where you are, B is the finality. Guru, is someone, who has already walked that path and has the experience of finality. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Soul dance and balance

Agreed that we are all endowed with our own distinctive personalities they are as unique as our signature, or...

9 April 2019 4:58 AM IST

BJP senior leader LK Advani during the release of the Commemorative volumes on Chandra Shekhar and Jagannath Rao Joshi at the Parliament Library building in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Politics turning vulgar: Discourse hits new low

Advani finds this vulgarisation caused by the overlapping of party and Sangh Parivar painful only because he feels...

9 April 2019 12:28 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets supporters during a campaign rally in Cooch Behar, West Bengal, on Sunday. (Photo: AFP)

BJP's Mission Bengal: Defending faith for votes

In the BJP's reconstruction, the only political legacy that seems to matter in West Bengal is that of Partition.

9 April 2019 12:25 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Half-truths' and post-truths' hold sway as India is in grip of...

Election campaigns sharpen the Indian genius to come up with catchy slogans and acronyms filled with derision and...

9 April 2019 12:22 AM IST

Saying -- resolve things internally -- is akin to asking us to escalate the revolt, which can lead to chaos. Maldivians see Indias role positively: in 88 they came, resolved the crisis, and left. They were not occupiers but liberators. This is why Maldivians look to India now, Nasheed tweeted on Wednesday. (Photo: AP)

Nasheed's star rises

India, whose voice was heeded in Washington and London, must bank on the hope that the Maldives breaks free completely...

9 April 2019 12:01 AM IST

Security personnel stand guard on the Jammu-Srinagar-Baramulla national highway on the outskirts of Srinagar on Sunday. (Photo: H.U. Naqash)

J&K highway closure will further alienation

The Narendra Modi government has clearly not thought things through, relying on military means alone in Kashmir.

9 April 2019 12:00 AM IST

Congress Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Gowda

Nyay to create wealth, provide welfare'

As for scrapping the sedition law, it is part of our freedom agenda, says Rajeev Gowda.

8 April 2019 12:27 AM IST