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OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | There’s Nothing ‘Christian’ About Spewing Hate For Asylum Seekers | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | There’s Nothing ‘Christian’ About Spewing Hate...

Growing up in India, one couldn’t not know about dharma and karma, but the understanding of these came woven into myths...

20 Dec 2025 2:04 AM IST

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Future Gridlocks Lurking Behind The IndiGo Mess

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Future Gridlocks Lurking Behind The IndiGo...

The fleet and the crew were working more shifts than they should have been. It is nice old capitalist rule: push the...

19 Dec 2025 12:22 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Why India Sent A Retired Cop As NSA To Port Louis

Dilip Cherian | Why India Sent A Retired Cop As NSA To Port Louis

For years, the Mauritius NSA position has typically gone to officers with a strong external intelligence or military...

18 Dec 2025 11:39 PM IST

Kamal Davar | Terror has to be Fought Globally: Will World Learn from Bondi Hit?

Kamal Davar | Terror has to be Fought Globally: Will World Learn from...

Unfortunately, instead of striving for a peaceful law-abiding global order, many nations remain in pursuit of their own...

17 Dec 2025 10:25 PM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Justice or Vengeance? No End to Violence in B’desh

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Justice or Vengeance? No End to Violence in...

Muhammad Yunus’ call for parliamentary elections next February confirms that Bangladesh remains a “riddle wrapped in a...

17 Dec 2025 10:23 PM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | How Rising Inequality Leads To Distorting Indian Society

Mohan Guruswamy | How Rising Inequality Leads To Distorting Indian...

It is said that an analysis of the Kindle readers of the Piketty book revealed that a typical reader got through 26 of...

17 Dec 2025 1:29 AM IST

K.J. Jacob | Despite Dramatic Win In Its Capital, A Long Way To Go For BJP In Kerala

K.J. Jacob | Despite Dramatic Win In Its Capital, A Long Way To Go For...

Mr Modi's congratulations and blessings will be a shot in the arm for the BJP for its campaign for the Assembly...

17 Dec 2025 12:45 AM IST

Aakar Patel| Good Governance Gets Much Harder: Are Optics Enough To Satisfy Indians?

Aakar Patel| Good Governance Gets Much Harder: Are Optics Enough To...

When the airline business grinds to a halt and airports across the country are an angry mess, the solution is to...

15 Dec 2025 10:40 PM IST

Shikha Mukerjee:‘Detect, Delete, Deport’: SIR Battle Of Perception

Shikha Mukerjee:‘Detect, Delete, Deport’: SIR Battle Of Perception

In the past, the Opposition’s purpose, he claimed, was to “normalise infiltration, grant it recognition, and formalise...

15 Dec 2025 9:39 PM IST

Bharat Bhushan | Why India More Unequal Than Sub-Saharan Africa

Bharat Bhushan | Why India More Unequal Than Sub-Saharan Africa

Direct taxes like income tax and corporate tax contribute less to the total revenue of the government than indirect...

14 Dec 2025 11:51 PM IST

Pradeep S. Mehta | Amid Tariff Crisis, The World Trade Organisation Has To Be Revived Now

Pradeep S. Mehta | Amid Tariff Crisis, The World Trade Organisation...

It took many years of intense negotiations since the Havana Charter of 1948 to shape what we see as the WTO today. For...

14 Dec 2025 11:25 PM IST

The EC was responding to a story carried out by this paper in which former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan had raised serious concerns with regard to sanctity of EVMs due to use of VVPAT machines, saying VVPATs have made EVMs amenable to hacking.

Manish Tewari | Five Ideas To Fix Our Broken Election Machine

What is happening under the garb of SIR violates this principle fundamentally. The Election Commission is conducting...

14 Dec 2025 1:04 AM IST