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Ranjona Banerji | Is your apartment as sweet as its name?

We build large monstrosities, testaments to human greed and acquisitiveness, all symbols of human yearning and name them...

25 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

Saeed Naqvi | When I met the Queen & Philip in Delhi in 1983

There was some perfunctory conversation with me about my being from the North but working as a journalist in the South

25 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | The outbreak of communal riots in UK's Leicester...

The riots, which police are out in full force to suppress, have been happening, in varying intensity, from Aug 28 till...

24 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor and others during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kerala. (PTI Photo)

Anand K. Sahay | Rahul's yatra shifts optics: The game has come alive

A challenger is now before us. Whether he plays for PM, or desires to be a facilitator, will likely turn on the actual...

24 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

Patralekha Chatterjee | India's pride, prejudice and its global...

The India of the future will depend on which metrics and indicators we choose to play up, and which ones we try to gloss...

23 Sept 2022 1:55 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Jump in UPSC vacancies due to new management cadre in...

Instead of 861 CSE vacancies, the recent recruitment circular issued by UPSC notifies hiring on 1,011 posts

22 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

A cheetah after being released inside a special enclosure of the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Cheetahs back: Will it take India into happier...

This is not the first time that the introduction of big cats has been attempted in this region

22 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and others pose for photographs during Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. (PTI)

Skand Tayal | From Samarkand to New Delhi 2023: Can SCO become more...

The Indian media speculated endlessly on the possibility of a bilateral meeting between Mr Modi and the Pakistani and...

21 Sept 2022 2:54 AM IST

True justice cannot be based on unjust laws, though it is possible to have a law-abiding society with the most unjust laws in place.(Photo credit: Department of Justice, Governemnt of India)

Mohan Guruswamy | Towards a common civil & secular code for India

When the equality doctrine prevails, it will entail that in matters of maintenance and alimony

21 Sept 2022 2:50 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Can the whole of South Asia work as one to develop...

We have not opened ourselves to each other and returned to the sort of geography and economy that we had before 1947

20 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Photo: AP)

K.C. Singh | Mend Pak ties, keep China in check to raise India heft

As the only democracy in SCO, besides a dysfunctional Pak, India must ensure the group is not hijacked by China to forge...

20 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

Members of the public walk past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, inside Westminster Hall, at the Palace of Westminster, in London on early September 17, 2022, where it lies in state on a catafalque (Image: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | London queues up for a cause as media watches for...

Perhaps, never again in the history of mankind will so many gather to bid farewell to just one person. At least not in...

19 Sept 2022 7:22 AM IST