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A critic I read years ago said that Shakespeare referred to the image of a foreign invasion by sea in which slings and arrows were being fired from the invading armadas. (Photo: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | In UK, linguistic ‘revolutionaries’ try to ‘ban’ those with other views

What the boy is asking himself is should he endure these S and As or should he fight against such opposition or adversity

24 Jul 2021 1:18 AM

Shobhaa De | PK: Can ‘mover-shaker’ pull off a ‘coup’ in 2024?

Prashant Kishor has emerged as a political A-lister pretty recently

24 Jul 2021 1:16 AM

claims NSO IT minister has said some of the countries listed in the Pegasus expose as its clients are incorrect. Representational Image (Twitter)

Karan Thapar | Pegasus expose: Will the govt order a real probe?

At the very least, a democratic government committed to defending the rights of its citizens would immediately order a full inquiry

23 Jul 2021 1:51 AM

Navjot Singh Sidhu. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Sidhu is Cong wild card for Punjab’s 2022 polls

Apparently, neither Mr Gandhi nor the Congress high command really liked the idea of a state leader who was on his own

22 Jul 2021 12:10 AM

Security personnel inspect a damaged vehicle which was firing rockets in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (Image: AP)

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | Afghan turmoil, Pak role: What keeps India unsafe

The spectre of Afghanistan again under the fundamentalist Taliban haunts global thinking

21 Jul 2021 12:28 AM

No entity could receive foreign aid even as medicines or equipment to save lives, without being registered under the NGO law, called the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. Representational Image (Twitter)

Aakar Patel | To widen ease of biz in India, lift draconian curbs on NGOs

NGOs, or non-governmental organisations, are the third largest workforce in the United States

20 Jul 2021 10:15 PM

The real question is whether this proposal by the CBSE represents an improvement on the pre-pandemic formula of a single “board” exam. Representational Image (PTI)

Devi Kar | With ‘flexi’ exam formula, focus on quality learning

In brief, the Central Board of Secondary Education plans to split the examination of Class 10 and Class 12 students into two parts

20 Jul 2021 2:38 AM

The biggest frustration for the British, who are incorrigible travellers, is that they are having to scrap their summer holiday plans. Representational Image. (Twitter)

Kishwar Desai | Climate leveller; Javid infection puts a dampener on Freedom Day

some of the “Freedom Day” plans which were to be announced by the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, on this weekend, are likely to be shelved

18 Jul 2021 11:51 PM

Thousands of Afghan women banned from public life during the Taliban days. Representational Image. (PTI)

Indranil Banerjie | Dark days loom for Afghans: Will Kabul die another day?

After a bitter nine-year war, Mikhail Gorbachev finally pulled the plug on a conflict that had claimed thousands of Afghan and Soviet lives

18 Jul 2021 11:50 PM

Taming regulatory excess in retail markets

Sadly, legislation, in democracies, is strongly influenced by political economy which dilutes technical good sense

18 Jul 2021 7:47 AM

No free lunch in diplomacy: India’s lesson in Afghanistan

It perhaps may be instructive for Indian strategic elites to acknowledge the American trajectory of leaving allies in the lurch

18 Jul 2021 1:45 AM

Since last Sunday, when England lost the football European Cup final to Italy, the last straw in nastiness was loaded on to this camel’s shame-laden back. (Representational Image: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Adieu fair play: Sportsmanship under threat in today’s Britain

For some viewers in that room, the game had turned into a metaphorical political war

17 Jul 2021 12:49 AM

Uttar Pradesh’s draft Population (Control, Stabilisation and Welfare) Bill 2021 is the best example of what is proposed. (Representational Image: PTI)

Karan Thapar | Population: Will ‘solution’ make our problem worse?

The truth is that India’s census data confirms our population growth is slowing

17 Jul 2021 12:46 AM

With such an indifferent recent record before us, it is hard to hazard a guess about this year’s Monsoon Session, due to begin on Monday (July 19-August 13). (Photo: AFP/file)

Anand K Sahay | Changing the optics in a ‘Lilliputian democracy’

Covid-19 has come as a handy addition to the book of tricks, not a deadly virus to be fought tooth and nail by a sensitive government

16 Jul 2021 1:04 AM

It should be recalled that Balaji Srivastava’s predecessor Sachidanand Srivastava was appointed similarly in February last year during the bloody Delhi riots. (Twitter)

Dilip Cherian | Making Delhi CP the additional charge; Centre’s new trick to control police

For the second time, the Centre has chosen to give the prestigious commissionerate position as an additional charge

15 Jul 2021 9:16 AM

If a state wishes to stabilise its population, it could start with focusing its political energy on improving female literacy and other. Representational Image (Representational image: PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Stabilising population by coercion can never work

There has been a continuous fertility decline among most states in India over the years

15 Jul 2021 9:08 AM

The Cabinet’s overhaul and its vast expansion is a tacit acknowledgment that the government was treading water and going nowhere in managing the crises that continue to overwhelm India. (ANI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Managing expectations after Modi’s big shuffle

The cabinet rejig focused on health, labour employment, education and petrol prices

14 Jul 2021 12:20 AM

A 14c copy of Magna Carta in the MertonCollege library. (Twitter)

Mohan Guruswamy | Liberty and rights for all: Myth of the Magna Carta

Magna Carta came out of an intra-elite struggle between 40 barons and their King

13 Jul 2021 9:11 AM

Stan Swamy, a tamil priest spent decades working with adivasis in Jharkhand. (Twitter)

Aakar Patel | The weak case that kept Stan Swamy in jail, where he died

He was imprisoned denied bail in the Bhima Koregaon case

13 Jul 2021 9:07 AM

For most Indians China is an adversary, a source of cheap products or the home of chow mien. (Twitter)

Sanjaya Baru | India-China: Bhai-bhai to buy-buy to bye-bye

China has risen on the foundations of its human capabilities and Indians ought to have a better appreciation of that.

12 Jul 2021 2:57 AM

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