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Over 50 protesters held white papers in support of the Chinese people under harsh zero-COVID policies that prevent them from having normal lives in China. (Photo: AP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Where does India figure in a very uncertain...

India is better prepared even if the coronavirus knocks again as a new variant.

30 Dec 2022 1:19 AM IST

Today there are 5.03 billion Internet users around the world and 4.9 billion of these use social media. (Photo: AFP)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | How the fatal tug of social media got bigger,...

Social media fills the spatial, societal and relationship gaps which separate individuals from their dreams.

29 Dec 2022 2:18 AM IST

The Indian Railways is one of the biggest landlords after the central government. (Photo: Twitter@RailMinIndia)

Dilip Cherian | With AI & data analytics, will govt files now move...

The new chairman and CEO will get a new team, with the recent empanelment of six officers for holding Level 17 posts...

29 Dec 2022 2:15 AM IST

People protest against executions and detentions in Iran, in front of the Iranian Permanent Mission to the UN in New York City on December 17, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

K.C. Singh | After 2022's big challenges, looking at 2023 with hope

The year gone by brought war in Ukraine, saw Covid-19 epidemic abate and now turn vengefully on its source, the People's...

28 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

The Bharat Jodo Yatra is not a journey without maps . It has crept up on the existing grammar of politics. (Representational Image/PTI)

Anand K. Sahay | Early signals of a churning, in India's politics and...

In the regions where state elections will be fought, the real contest will be between the BJP and the Congress

28 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

A.S. Dulat (Photo: G.N. Jha)

Aakar Patel | Dulat memoirs an eye-opener on how India's spooks think

What this ex-head of RAW, who was also one of the IB's senior-most officers has written is astonishing

27 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Far from being the competitors of the United States, China and India are still its under-economies, serving it with cheap labour working on repetitive jobs and repetitive number crunching. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | What is the prescription for America's many ills?

The problem with the US is, it lives far beyond its means and its profligacy has left it as a debtor, unable to pay its...

27 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

In India too, an intense fight is on between the Hindu right, partially represented by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Hindu liberals. (Representational image: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India's culture wars: A clash of ignorant...

There is also the basic question whether the Hindu liberals are really liberal, and whether the Hindu reactionaries are...

26 Dec 2022 2:30 PM IST

Taituhas ancestors were among the 40 Mori leaders who signed the Treaty of Waitangi with representatives of Prince Charless great-great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria, at the site in 1840. (Photo: Instagram)

Kishwar Desai | After a Christmas of misery, looking to New Year with...

A King has not been on the throne in 70 years and a Charles in four centuries. So we look forward to the coronation!

26 Dec 2022 12:58 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the G20 Extraordinary Summit on Afghanistan, via video conferencing, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | The Big Powers and the Global South in 2023

If 2022 was all about Big Power conflict, 2023 should be used to turn global attention to issues that concern developing...

26 Dec 2022 12:58 AM IST

What say we take a leaf out of the blissfully ignorant book of the most average Joe of all, Joey Tribbiani? (Photo By Arrangement)

Shreya Sen-Handley | At the end of this year, hit refresh

In the year's dying days, let's celebrate the life we've shaped. Commemorate the things we got right, and discount our...

25 Dec 2022 9:32 AM IST

Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad (PTI file photo)

Anita Katyal | What's eating Ghulam Azad; daughter tends to Sushma...

Azad fears that unhappy leaders could be tempted to return to the Cong if they are convinced that the state unit is...

25 Dec 2022 12:10 AM IST