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Unity never hurts a nation; that is what your Army is pursuing and truly showing the way. (Representational Image/ By Arrangement)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Pluralism is a way of life for India's armed forces

In the armed forces, no one looks at your faith, caste or ethnicity

5 May 2022 12:47 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses at the dedication of KK Patel Super Speciality Hospital at Bhuj in Gujarat, through a video conference, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Separate visions: Modi, Europe & Ukraine...

The Europeans would not go beyond polite words to speak out against China in the context of the India-China conflict and...

4 May 2022 4:01 AM IST

Students wearing facemasks sit in a classroom after their school was reopened in Colombo, Sri Lanka. AFP Photo

Devi Kar | Schooling after Covid-19: What appears normal is not always...

Almost two years of disuse has led to multiple problems of different kinds

4 May 2022 12:20 AM 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)

Aakar Patel | Where the BJP has succeeded, over its 2 terms from 2014,...

It appears to be the case that the BJP has shifted its focus from the economy to its primary social agenda

3 May 2022 12:06 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/Kamal Singh)

Sanjay Kumar | Congress' unwillingness to change is its basic problem

The failure of talks between the Congress and PK, not just once but twice, has also damaged the party's image

3 May 2022 12:00 AM IST

Freebies become the fig leaf that corrupt politicians and political parties use to cover their sins of omission and commission while seeking electoral support. (Representational Image/ AP)

Sanjaya Baru | Rising freebies: The fiscal price of political failures

When political parties promise free television sets, kitchenware and suchlike, they are using the taxpayer's money to...

2 May 2022 12:41 AM IST

Heres how they see us brownies: cheap, efficient, trouble-free labour.(Representational Image/ DC)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | White lies, brown noses

No one is lying sleepless and chanting the Hanuman Chalisa over our skyrocketing economic, military, yogic, and, above...

1 May 2022 2:42 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal (PTI)

Anita Katyal | PK fiasco dents Priyanka image; Kejriwal calling shots...

Kejriwal and Bhagwant Singh recently signed an agreement to enable the 2 state governments to cooperate in various...

1 May 2022 2:03 AM IST

Justice Prateek Jalan ordered CBSE to consider as representation a petition by Deepa Joseph, mother of a Class 10 student studying in a CBSE affiliated school here, who had paid Rs 2,100 as examination fee. (PTI Photo)

Pavan K. Varma | Urdu by any other faith sounds just as sweet

It is my opinion that our educational content is still considerably trapped in the colonial legacy

1 May 2022 1:21 AM IST

Photo: Biplab Banerjee Location courtesy: Oxford Bookstore, Delhi.

Farrukh Dhondy | On returning to bookshops; challenges on social media

Will the cautionary lifting of Covid-19 restrictions bring book buyers back to the bookshops to savour the browsing...

29 April 2022 11:55 PM IST

Most of our Muslim brethren have observed the holy month of Ramzan, keeping rozas and praying for peace. (AP Photo)

Shobhaa De | As Id nears, stories of hope amid a toxic climate of fear

This has been one of the hottest months in recent history, and I am not talking about the heatstroke inducing...

29 April 2022 11:21 PM IST

Bulldozers being used to remove illegal structures during a joint anti-encroachment drive by NDMC, PWD, local bodies and the police, in the violence-hit Jahangirpuri area, in New Delhi, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan)

Saeed Naqvi | Jahangirpuri kills Ramzan spirit: Id will be observed,...

The weaker the intellect, the greater the tendency to deviate from fact and logic into miracle and magic

28 April 2022 11:48 PM IST