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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

The divisiveness and bigotry so unleashed acquires a momentum of its own. (Representational Image/ AFP)

Pavan K. Varma | India isn't Sri Lanka, but must draw lessons

India is facing major problems of unemployment and inflation

15 May 2022 12:42 AM IST

Kapil Sibal (Photo: G.N. Jha)

Anita Katyal | Why Sibal is not at Udaipur; Cong in Nagaland bonds...

It is possibly for the same reason that Mr Sibal decided not to attend the Congress chintan shivir at Udaipur

15 May 2022 12:18 AM IST

The Sankat Mochan Hanuman temple in Kashi, said to have been established by Goswami Tulsidas himself in the sixteenth century, maintains the tradition of pleasing Lord Hanuman through music. (Twitter)

Shailaja Khanna | What makes this festival in Kashi a treat for the...

Performing at the temple is not easy the recitals are interrupted by temple rituals at midnight and the break of dawn

15 May 2022 12:12 AM IST

Pasoori , sung by a 37-year-old Pakistani musician named Ali Sethi, is being talked about as a delightfully subversive performer, since the song is more a metaphor for India and Pakistan tensions than a love song. (Twitter)

Shobhaa De | What does sedition law have to do with Pasoori?

The song is more a metaphor for India and Pakistan tensions than a love song

13 May 2022 11:55 PM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | How will history remember BoJo: Churchillian' or for...

BoJo fancies himself as a second Winston Churchill with constant posturing about defying Vladimir Putin as Churchill did...

13 May 2022 11:55 PM IST

An Afghan woman is wrapped with a blanket as she and her family camp outside the Directorate of Disaster in Herat, Afghanistan. (AP Photo)

Anand K. Sahay | Is India doing a rethink on role in Afghanistan?

It seems likely that an Indian representation will soon be restored in Kabul, even if this will be small and not at the...

13 May 2022 12:17 AM IST

Ilham Omar, US Democratic Congresswoman. (Twitter)

Maura Moynihan | Ilhan Omar: An American agent of Pakistan-CPC Wahhabi...

Ilhan Omar most certainly advances the agenda of the CPC-Wahhabi lobby

13 May 2022 12:04 AM IST

Apparently, there have been several instances in which the ministry was provided wrong information, either deliberately or negligently, by states. (Representational image/ DC File)

Dilip Cherian | Centre warns officers filing false info on behalf of...

Apparently, the problem has grown alarmingly so that finance secretary T.V. Somanathan had to step in

12 May 2022 1:49 AM IST

Rioters hurl stones and sticks during a communal riot that escalated due to clamping illegal water connection in a religious place in Moti Karanja area of Aurangabad. (photo: PTI)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Violence in Indian life: Can rulers take steps...

Drifting towards bigotry and blinkers, we must bear in mind that there is a domestic as well as an international...

12 May 2022 1:09 AM IST

The Ukraine story will certainly take a turn once the identity of senior Western officials, generals and mercenary groups at Azov are revealed. (Representational Image/ AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Sanctions hit Europe as US wants it weak: Putin adviser

The re-emergence of Russia with the help of friends who don't want Western hegemony, is unacceptable to the West

11 May 2022 12:36 AM IST