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Devi Kar | How To Deal With Punishment In School, As Well As In Society At Large

Devi Kar | How To Deal With Punishment In School, As Well As In...

I was extremely disturbed by the public reaction. Have we gone back to the days when punishment of criminals also served...

15 July 2026 1:51 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | Amid UN Query, Can Govt Uphold Credibility Of SIR?

Shikha Mukerjee | Amid UN Query, Can Govt Uphold Credibility Of SIR?

Why would clients come to the EC in future, from 141 countries for training of election officials, if it feels it is not...

15 July 2026 1:34 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Of NRC & SIR: How Governments Use Of Arbitrary Powers Put Citizens In A Fix

Aakar Patel | Of NRC & SIR: How Governments' Use Of Arbitrary Powers...

In 1998, the governor of Assam, a retired military man named Lt. Gen. S.K. Sinha (Retd) sent a note to then President...

13 July 2026 11:18 PM IST

Wasbir Hussain | Beyond Mangoes: Tackle Dhaka’s Swing To Beijing

Wasbir Hussain | Beyond Mangoes: Tackle Dhaka’s Swing To Beijing

For even as Dhaka extends symbolic goodwill towards India, it is quietly moving closer to China. During Prime Minister...

13 July 2026 9:45 PM IST

Bharat Bhushan | BNP Govt In Dhaka Risks Squandering Indias Trust

Bharat Bhushan | BNP Govt In Dhaka Risks Squandering India's Trust

Bangladesh summoned Indian diplomats twice -- after Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s “detect, delete and...

13 July 2026 12:01 AM IST

Chandrakant Lahariya and Abhishek Garg | A ‘Cadaver’ Isn’t A Specimen; It’s The First Teacher In Medical Colleges

Chandrakant Lahariya and Abhishek Garg | A ‘Cadaver’ Isn’t A Specimen;...

The question is not whether a cadaver deserves respect. That answer is obvious. The deeper question is why any student...

12 July 2026 11:25 PM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How A Safe Space Triggered My Trauma

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How A Safe Space Triggered My Trauma

Listen, you psychobabblers, I am onto you. But let me decode your therapy speak for the benefit of others

12 July 2026 1:22 AM IST

Manish Tewari | Middle Powers In The Fourth Industrial Era

Manish Tewari | Middle Powers In The Fourth Industrial Era

China under the Xi Jingping dispensation has also become more authoritarian, jingoistic and is now more than comfortable...

12 July 2026 1:00 AM IST

Pradeep S. Mehta and Sohom Banerjee |Trans-humanism: The Silent Capture Of The Human Mind

Pradeep S. Mehta and Sohom Banerjee |Trans-humanism: The Silent...

Technology is moving from the outside to the inside of human experience. It’s no longer only on our desks. It’s in our...

12 July 2026 12:34 AM IST

Tanvika Baru | From Peace to Pieces

Tanvika Baru | From Peace to Pieces

Secularism is a political principle where the state treats all religions equally and protects every citizen’s freedom of...

11 July 2026 3:06 PM IST

Shobhaa De | Did Fadnavis Fiddle While Mumbai Nearly Drowned?

Shobhaa De | Did Fadnavis Fiddle While Mumbai Nearly Drowned?

A crime minus any punishment. Year after year, Mumbai comes to a standstill because of an annual event -- the...

10 July 2026 11:41 PM IST

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Perils Of Being ‘Cancelled’… The Twisted Saga Of My Jinnah Play! | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Perils Of Being ‘Cancelled’… The Twisted Saga...

These bans and cancellations make me wonder if my opinions, which I express in these columns, in others and in my books...

10 July 2026 11:19 PM IST