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This is the second time we overtook the UK, the first being a few years ago. But as our growth slowed, we fell behind again. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | Can India do what it takes to make a big leap forward?

The nations ahead of us are Germany, Japan, China and the United States

6 Sept 2022 12:13 AM IST

The Dera Sacha Sauda of Ram Rahim Singh has been a cult that was much in the news. (Representatioanl Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | The challenge of the cults: Can we overcome them?

Religiosity is being displaced by veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object

6 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

Conservative party leadership contender Liz Truss looks on before the live television debate for the candidates for leadership of the Conservative party, hosted by Channel 4 in London, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP)

Kishwar Desai | Liz Truss gets set for No. 10? Life is smaller' for...

Kensington may now be used more and more as an office

5 Sept 2022 1:59 AM IST

Senior military officials of India and China held talks in eastern Ladakh on Wednesday, focusing on maintaining security and stability in the region. (AFP file photo)

Sanjaya Baru | India and China: Keeping an unstable equilibrium

The competition between Asia's two giants will continue in a world that is in search of a new equilibrium in power...

5 Sept 2022 1:09 AM IST

File photos of Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. (DC Image)

Anita Katyal | Why Hemant stays; few takers for Tharoor as Congress...

Not many are enthused with Shashi Tharoor's plan to contest for the party president's post

4 Sept 2022 1:00 AM IST

Shashi Warrier | All's fair in love and school

Confusion means diversity, my friend replied, finishing the coffee and putting the cup down with a bang

4 Sept 2022 12:16 AM IST

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