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The world of the privileged that includes voluntary diet control and excessive exercise. (Representational Image/ Pexels)

Ranjona Banerji | The diet where dreams go to die...

And there's that whole dieting industry ready to 'help' you get your wallet so much thinner

22 May 2022 12:27 AM IST

Russian tanks roll along a street in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Manish Tewari | Putin started Ukraine war, West might just end it

This united Europe like never before much the same way as they had come together to resist Hitler's blitzkrieg 1939...

22 May 2022 12:25 AM IST

A post-mortem examination of the victim confirmed rape and then murder by throttling. (AA file photo)

Anita Anand | Rape within marriage: The grey area over consent

Of the 4,169 women who experienced sexual violence, 82 per cent said the perpetrator was their husband

22 May 2022 12:17 AM IST

Secularism is not mere tolerance of other faiths, but a belief in modern values and reason. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Mohan Guruswamy | How Hindus and Muslims misunderstood secularism

Sensitivity to each other's feelings and aspirations has to be a mutual affair

21 May 2022 12:52 AM IST

Local civilians walk past a tank destroyed during heavy fighting in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Which is the real War on the West'? By Putin & Trump,...

Indian historians have been rewriting and telling the truth about colonial history for at least a century

21 May 2022 12:22 AM IST

Villagers wade through a flooded road after heavy rains in Hojai district of Indias Assam state on May 19, 2022. (Photo:AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Climate crisis to be India's biggest threat...

One reason wheat prices have shot up has to do with the intense heatwave that struck parts of India from March

20 May 2022 12:15 AM IST

Rahul Gandhi (AFP file photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Rahul's role as Congress' heir not at all apparent

It was obvious long before and reconfirmed after political strategist Prashant Kishor's firm but polite refusal of...

19 May 2022 12:12 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Cool-off debate rages on amid MNC absorbing senior...

The recent appointment of Archana Goyal Gulati, former member of Niti Aayog and CCI, at Google, has revived the old...

19 May 2022 12:04 AM IST

An Indian policeman throws brick chips at Kashmiri protesters during a protest in Srinagar, Kashmir. Government forces fired tear gas to stop demonstrations after separatists called for protests against a police raid in a college in which at least 50 students were injured on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | To stop all political misuse, speedy police...

As recent events demonstrate, every party prefers having the law enforcers acting as a private militia

18 May 2022 12:40 AM IST

Two men were arrested for allegedly preparing fake Aadhaar and voter ID cards (Representational image)

Aakar Patel | Sedition not the only law that should go. There are many...

Once it dawns on the judiciary that some laws are out of place in a 21st century democracy, then problematic laws will...

17 May 2022 1:52 AM IST

Sri Lankas President, Gotobaya Rajapaksa. (Twitter)

K.C. Singh | Sri Lanka, India & China: The Great Game resumes

India has a great opportunity to rebuild its hold on maritime neighbourhood, when the Opposition has begun an anti-India...

17 May 2022 12:49 AM IST

Prashant Kishor. (DC file photo)

Sanjaya Baru | The Mahatma Brand: From Nehru to Prashant Kishor

The Indian National Congress was the first political party, inspired by the Mahatma, to successfully launch itself as a...

16 May 2022 12:13 AM IST