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Dharam Sansad was held at Ved Niketan Dham in Haridwar for three days from December 16 to 19. (Photo: Screengrab)

Aakar Patel | Listen to what the world says: Step back from the...

It is not safe to be dismissive about words like genocide, but unfortunately, that is what India is doing today

25 Jan 2022 12:06 AM IST

In this file photo taken on October 1, 2019, Chinese troops march during a military parade in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (Representational photo:AFP)

K.C. Singh | How absolutist policy can make a nation less secure

Taking the cue from Jia, one needs to ask whether viewing the region through the prism of 'absolute national security'...

24 Jan 2022 11:47 PM IST

This handout photograph taken on January 23, 2022 and released by the Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB) shows a hologram of the statue of Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose that was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi. (AFP)

Anita Katyal | Statue's location is a little curious; AAP starts trend...

Modi government decided to instal a statue of Subhas Chandra Bose under the colonial canopy at Delhi's iconic India Gate

24 Jan 2022 2:25 AM IST

Sanjaya Baru | Pakistan's geo-economic' pivot to national security

However, to be able to make use of this geo-economic opportunity, says the NSPP, Pakistan has to modernise its economy

24 Jan 2022 2:00 AM IST

Former finance minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram. (PTI)

Pavan K. Varma | PC is wrong; TMC offered Goa tie-up, didn't hear back

Details such as seat sharing, & other modalities of fighting the election in alliance, would have followed, should the...

23 Jan 2022 3:00 AM IST

There was a magical quality to a tram, as if you were somehow removed from the mad frenzy of normal Calcutta traffic. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Ranjona Banerji | A streetcar named nostalgia

These two cities, as Bombay, Mumbai, Calcutta, Kolkata, define my life

23 Jan 2022 2:09 AM IST

The First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. (AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Moscow's brief foray doused Kazakh turmoil, hasn't ended...

I run my eyes with wonder because the turbulence is totally incompatible with the image of serenity etched on my mind

23 Jan 2022 1:37 AM IST

BoJo was sanctioned for columns he wrote in the Daily Telegraph likening Muslim ladies wearing burqas to letter boxes with round tops and slits below and then to Balaclavaed bank robbers. (Jessica TAYLOR / various sources / AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Truth and lies: A Sobhraj twist as BoJo faces more...

The defection comes as BoJo's participation in the decadent culture of the cabal of politicians and civil servants he...

22 Jan 2022 12:42 AM IST

Indian performers surround a tableaux representing the state of Tamil Nadu during 68th Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 26, 2017. (AFP file photo)

Shobhaa De | I'm now designing my own Republic Day tableau, OK?

Why is Didi's tableau rejected? And Stalin's and Pinarayi Vijayan's? Isn't this a bit too blatant and obvious?

22 Jan 2022 12:09 AM IST

Assam chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma. (PTI)

Dilip Cherian | Assam CM shows off his street cred, but rebuke' to IAS...

The incident got more airtime because the NCP decided to take up cudgels for the poor hapless officer caught in the...

21 Jan 2022 2:19 AM IST

(Clockwise from L) Founder and Executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Klaus Schwab and WEF president Borge Brende listen Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking remotely during the World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos Agenda virtual sessions at the WEFs headquarters in Cologny near Geneva on January 17, 2022. (AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Why it's tough to invest in India: Fix the...

The challenge on the economic front now seems to be to place India as a strategic part of the global supply chain, a...

21 Jan 2022 1:57 AM IST

Public spending on education must increase from 4.43 per cent to six per cent of GDP in the next three-four years. (Representational Image/ DC)

Chandrajit Banerjee | Budget must pave way for ambitious decadal...

It should take forward big, bold reforms and root for policy predictability and stability

20 Jan 2022 2:58 AM IST