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Pavan K. Varma | Whither Dharma in an ethical wasteland?

Are Indians moral by choice, or do they do the correct thing only under compulsion or fear?

4 Sept 2022 12:10 AM IST

Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi chairs the Congress Working Committee meeting, in New Delhi, Sunday, March 13, 2022. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is also seen. (PTI)

Shobhaa De | Is Congress totally kaput... What can we expect next?

We are at a fascinating cusp in the country's political history right now. It's still too early to start saying, The...

3 Sept 2022 12:07 AM IST

Rishi Sunak & Liz Truss

Farrukh Dhondy | Who's really fit to be British? Shades of racism pop...

There may be many reasons to prefer Liz Untrussworthy to Hedgie Soon-to-go, but Rishi's race has not been openly...

3 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (Photo: AP)

P.S. Raghavan | The man who brought down the Iron Curtain

Gorbachev's was an unlikely story of a peasant boy from rural Russia climbing up the greasy pole of Soviet politics

2 Sept 2022 12:02 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Mystery of the vanishing IAS: Shrinking turf, fall in...

Just recently the government promoted 31 officers to additional and joint secretary ranks across ministries, but only 12...

2 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

Tax authorities raids Chinese entities for money laundering. (PTI Photo)

Sriram Karri | Let's end freebies. Evolve a smart welfare' consensus

There is no such thing as a freebie. It only means a service someone else has to pay for

31 Aug 2022 2:50 AM IST

According to last months data from Chinas General Administration of Customs (GAC), the India-China bilateral trade totalled USD 114.263 billion, up 46.4 per cent year-on-year from January to November 2021. (PTI Photo)

Why do we want a permanent seat at UNSC? If we get it, what will we...

India has had no proper discussion internally on why we want to be in the Security Council

30 Aug 2022 9:47 AM IST

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar (ANI file photo)

Do we need governors to act as agents of Centre?

Some sense of that gubernatorial grandeur persists in India even 75 years after the British left

30 Aug 2022 9:43 AM IST

Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad (PTI file photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will Congress heed what Ghulam Nabi had to...

Mr Azad's criticism of Rahul is what the Congress badly needs

29 Aug 2022 9:01 AM IST

Salman Rushdie (AP file photo)

Saeed Naqvi | The Satanic' furies: A look at the genesis

Rushdie and The Satanic Verses will encroach on the world's attention now and then indefinitely for political football

28 Aug 2022 12:15 AM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Folks that make me highly judgmental'

The parents, now, are the ones who need help. They need to be cut off. They need to remember times when they were young...

28 Aug 2022 12:10 AM IST

A man offers sweets to people convicted for rape and murder in the Bilkis Bano case of the 2002 post-Godhra riots, after they came out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, in Godhra on August 15. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Bilkis Bano and the fault in our criminal justice...

Even the Centre's recent remission policy for release of prisoners on Independence Day excluded rape convicts from its...

28 Aug 2022 12:09 AM IST