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A Venue from Jaipur Literary Festival. (Twitter)

Farrukh Dhondy | Ordeal to enter India; and ways to avoid writers at...

A very pleasant and talkative driver drove me through the several traffic jams and road-work hold-ups in six hours to...

21 March 2022 12:40 AM IST

Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi after paying tribute to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary, at Parliament House in New Delhi, Friday, Aug 20, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Sanjaya Baru | Dissolving a proprietorship: Congress must reinvent to...

The idea of dynastic succession within the Nehru family, however, goes far back and all the way to 1928

21 March 2022 12:02 AM IST

BJP supporters listen to a speech of Home Minister Amit Shah during an election rally in Loni, Ghaziabad district on February 3, 2022. Prakash SINGH / AFP)

Pavan K. Varma | Persevere and be clear to build a robust Opposition

A vibrant democracy needs a robust Opposition. To pursue this goal requires perseverance and strategic clarity

20 March 2022 12:41 AM IST

Some of us, you see, have been left with Long Covid, and almost all of us with Long Anxiety, which is not just another fallout of the pandemic, but a pandemic in its own right. (Photo by arrangement)

Shreya Sen-Handley | Mothers' dreams, and why they must be taken...

The climate crisis, the pandemic, this new war, are REAL, and so's the anxiety!

20 March 2022 12:29 AM IST

Anita Katyal | Gurdas Mann, Bhajji on AAP's RS list? Hooda, Khattar in...

AAP set to get five Rajya Sabha seats following its spectacular win in Punjab, the names of probable candidates are...

20 March 2022 12:17 AM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | Why is Gondwana's land of Koitur left neglected?

Wherever the Gonds still speak their own language, they refer to themselves as Koi, or Koitur

18 March 2022 11:28 PM IST

Students participate in a procession to protest against barring Muslim girls wearing hijab from attending classes at some schools in Karnataka, in Kolkata, Feb. 9, 2022. (AP /Bikas Das)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Don't weaponise' hijab, time to be more...

The question about the hijab is a political issue. And we must get at the facts as to why and when the issue became a...

17 March 2022 11:54 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP President J P Nadda during the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting, at Ambedkar International Centre, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Dec 7, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Saeed Naqvi | Is BJP turning into Congress led by Sardar, minus Nehru?

What gave BJP winning numbers was its secular, economic measures rations, cash, money for housing. Is this not some...

17 March 2022 11:51 PM IST

Dilip Cherian | CSS babus protest delayed promotions

The DoPT secretary P. K Tripathi has assured a delegation of CSS officers that the department is fast-tracking the issue...

17 March 2022 1:09 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister & AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal with AAPs chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann, addresses a press conference ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections, in Chandigarh (PTI Photo)

Anand K. Sahay | After Punjab, can AAP be a real alternative to BJP?

How the party proceeds from here will naturally be watched closely by the people of Punjab and the party's supporters...

17 March 2022 12:50 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)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Congress like an old LP, playing the same...

People still hope the Congress leadership shall arise from its self-induced comatose state

16 March 2022 2:43 AM IST

FILE | Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a bilateral meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, in Glasgow. (Photo: PTI)

Sunanda K. Datta Ray | Crisis over Ukraine poses fresh challenge for...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is too burdened with the weight of European history, nuclear one-upmanship and Cold War...

15 March 2022 12:09 AM IST