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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

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