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A still from the recent Bollywood release Gehraiyaan. (Photo: Twitter)

Shobhaa De | Needed: More gehraiyaan' both in movies and politics

It's this precise lack of depth in politics and public life that we as a nation have grown to accept in a resigned,...

18 Feb 2022 11:26 PM IST

Dilip Cherian | Disinvestment & its discontents: Targets modest rather...

The Budget is done and dusted, and the tough part starts now, which is implementing the proposals

18 Feb 2022 12:44 AM IST

Voters wait in queues to cast votes at a polling station during the 7th phase of West Bengal Assembly elections at a village near Balurghat in South Dinajpur district, Monday, April 26, 2021. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Confusion in Punjab amid new alliances,...

Why should we remember Punjab's political past of nearly 60 years in the 2022 state Assembly election?

18 Feb 2022 12:29 AM IST

In the run-up to 2024, state elections will be fought by regional parties in defence of a multi-party, multi-location system of democratic politics. Representational Image. (AP)

Shikha Mukerjee | An election without a wave: Canny voters & canny...

It is noticeable that Mr Modi's UP campaign has been low key till now

17 Feb 2022 6:48 AM IST

In September 2021, a reference was sent to sector regulator TRAI, seeking recommendations for the 5G spectrum auction and various modalities such as reserve price, band plan, block size, quantum of spectrum to be auctioned, it said. (PTI Photo)

Pradeep S. Mehta and Sidharth Narayan | 5G rollout and aviation...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has clarified that this problem does not exist in India

17 Feb 2022 3:39 AM IST

The consistent stand of India, whether it was that of the BJP-led NDA or the Congress-led UPA, was that there are no good Taliban or bad Taliban , and that the Taliban as Islamic terrorists were all bad. Representational Image. (PTI)

Shanthie Mariet D'Souza | India needs to be more imaginative in...

Things changed dramatically for India on August 15, 2021 in Afghanistan with the Taliban's capture of power

16 Feb 2022 3:49 AM IST

The young men in saffron scarves who yelled Jai Shri Ram! at girl students in hijabs were deliberately trying to foment serious political and religious conflict. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Of prejudice and religion: Free choice is...

There is no alternative to social evolution in a free society that respects everyone's right to choose his or her...

16 Feb 2022 3:35 AM IST

Muslim women gather to participate in a march against banning Muslim girls wearing hijab from attending classes at some schools in Karnataka, in New Delhi. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Aakar Patel | Let women wear the hijab or not: It's not the job of...

The hijab issue has again brought what India is doing to its minorities to the notice of the world

15 Feb 2022 1:49 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | What has led to failure of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan?

We not only spit everywhere, we piss everywhere, we shit wherever and dump our garbage anywhere

15 Feb 2022 1:30 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public rally, ahead of the second phase of UP Assembly polls, in Kannauj, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. (PTI)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Will BJP's before' & after' 2017 line deliver...

The central prong has been always to poke at pre-existing religios prejudice of Hindus against Muslims

14 Feb 2022 1:50 AM IST

If the black cab driver had found it, said Meghnad confidently, he will definitely return it. (Representational Image/ AP)

Kishwar Desai | Cabbie returns Meghnad ideas'; sexism finally claims...

Because people leave things so frequently in London black cabs, the methodology is very smoothly implemented

14 Feb 2022 1:17 AM IST

Shashi Warrier | No bump in the road if the better half rides...

Our lives have changed so much since the pandemic started that some things we thought normal a few years ago seem...

13 Feb 2022 2:31 AM IST