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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932-2018)

Dread and relief over Naipaul's biography

Naipaul's ardour for innovation became apparent when he wrote that things are happeningâ€ in India.

14 Aug 2018 12:15 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

BJP and caste politics: A rabbit waits in the hat

The government could use the report to re-categorise the OBCs by providing quotas within the 27 per cent reservations as...

14 Aug 2018 12:14 AM IST

Disastrous batting show

The point is Indian batsmen have proved far too vulnerable against the moving ball on the last three tours of England.

14 Aug 2018 12:14 AM IST

Somnath Chatterjee, one of the longest-serving parliamentarians in India, was not keeping well from the last few months. (Photo: File | PTI)

Somnath embellished Speaker's standing

Somnath was the kind of a man who made the Speaker's post sacrosanct.

14 Aug 2018 12:14 AM IST

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Mystic Mantra: The price of righteousness

A society's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are, the more it hurts to touch them.

13 Aug 2018 12:35 AM IST

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932-2018)

Farewell Sir Vidia! Always politically incorrect

VS Naipaul first book on India was, as he said to me, the product of disillusion.

13 Aug 2018 12:35 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing at the Centenary Celebrations of Patna University, in Patna. (Photo: PTI)

Time for defence, not offence, in diplomacy

The news leak that US President Donald Trump would be the Republic Day chief guest next January was neither confirmed...

13 Aug 2018 12:31 AM IST

Nobel literature laureate Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (Photo: AFP)

An irascible literary giant

Naipaul deprecated the lives of Indians and West Indians in his writings as much as he criticised Islam.

13 Aug 2018 12:15 AM IST

Pakistans cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) speaks to the media after casting his vote at a polling station during the general election in Islamabad. (Photo: File photograph)

Hard-nosed reality ahead for PM Khan

A lie at the heart of Imran's ascension to power and the smiting down of his predecessor has been that there is a...

13 Aug 2018 12:10 AM IST

Imran Khan declared his victory on Thursday and dismissed the allegations of fraud calling it the most transparent election in Pakistans history. (Photo: AP)

Is Pak Army now playing mind games with Imran?

The Army wasn't in favour of this though Mr Khan's party, in its naivete, had at the beginning expressed the desire to...

13 Aug 2018 12:00 AM IST

There was some resentment towards such people, particularly in the rural areas that later voted overwhelmingly in favour of leaving the European Union, or Brexit , meaning the British exit from the EU.

Why referendum is not a good idea

A referendum is a general vote on a single political question, usually with a yes/no answer that the nation must...

12 Aug 2018 4:58 AM IST

NDA Candidate Harivansh Narayan Singh has been elected as Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman with 125 votes. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

It's time to ruminate on 'coalition dharma'

Apart from the efforts of the BJP, much of the credit must go to Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, for his political acumen and...

12 Aug 2018 12:44 AM IST