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Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president, Shehbaz Sharif. (AFP)

Anand Sahay | J&K: New vistas can open if govt ready to shift focus

Neighbourhood difficulties are a constraining factor and an impediment to India realising its true potential as an...

30 Jan 2023 12:18 AM IST

File photo of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman holding a folder-case containing the Union Budget 2022-23. (Representational Image/PTI)Photo

Kamal Davar | More bangs for the buck: What FM must ensure for the...

Importantly, the demands for the country's security preparedness always remains a major financial challenge

29 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

The hour-long sessions are scintillating, I tell you, and I have learnt much on a variety of subjects. (Illustration By Krishna Shastri Devulapalli)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Why I just love literature festivals

Literature festivals, for the unversed, are where we writers go to mingle with wannabes, has-beens, never-will-bes,...

29 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

The Supreme Court has chosen to make public its reiterated recommendations with regard to certain judges whose appointments the government has been sitting on for over five years now. (Representational Image)

Manish Tewari | Who should appoint judges?

A joint house judiciary committee must be constituted by bringing about an appropriate Constitutional amendment

28 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

People watch the screening of the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question, in Thiruvananthapuram. (PTI)

Farrukh Dhondy | Allegations in a democracy: It's best to debate, not...

In healthy democracies, allegations will be argued over. They shouldn't be subject to a total niqab being drawn over...

28 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Its time for us desis to borrow the Brit stiff upper lip. Our lips are like Mick Jaggers -- a bit too rubbery and loose. We react and over-react to any and every small thing. (Photo: Twitter)

Shobhaa De | BBC Badnaam Hua. Darrrrrling Tere Liye!

We in India, give far too much importance to firangs who write books or make documentaries on and about us

28 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Its no secret that millions of jobs have been lost since the onset of the pandemic and workers who are part of the informal sector, the mainstay of the Indian economy, have been very badly hit. (Representational image: PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Ensure growth with jobs: Don't leave poor...

This jobless growth has left millions of Indians in precarious conditions, scrounging for whatever work they can get

27 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Captain Shiva Chouhan. (Photo: Twitter)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Women officers in Army: From PCs to combat role

It is good to see gender sensitivity take a higher platform in India

26 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | IPS officer as addl chief secy sets off churn in...

While nothing stops the govt from appointing an IPS officer to a post traditionally held by IAS cadre, such appointments...

26 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Telangana had backwardness written into its geography. It had backwardness written into its sociology. And it had backwardness hard-wired into its mentality. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | Andhra & Telangana: The trial marriage that failed

The story is of a deep cultural divide between two peoples united by language but divided by habits, values, history and...

25 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka. (Photo: Wikipedia)

Saeed Naqvi | Who remembers Rabuka, the man who seized power from 6L...

Today Rabuka, on his third spell as Prime Minister, is a household name

25 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

According to Mr Liyuo, India and China have such a long history of sharing belief and knowledge between them. So a new era will see us coming closer. China and India should play a major role to augment global governance and Asian sentiments. Representational Image/AFP

KC Singh | Rising India's challenge: Tackling China, Pakistan

The peace card appears unplayable in both nations due to domestic political compulsions.

24 Jan 2023 12:32 AM IST