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Now with all this noise around Vir Das, it has really indeed created two Indias the India that loves Vir Das, and the India that hates him. (AFP)

Shobhaa De | Pick your own Indias, boss! All versions are welcome

Opinions are free bilkul moofat. No tax, nothing

27 Nov 2021 1:33 AM IST

More intriguing is how Mamata Banerjee has used the BSFs territorial expansion to make common cause with Punjab. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Crossing the line: Mamata transforms national role?

By pilfering the BJP's polished spiel rationalising defections as a necessary political move, the TMC is certainly being...

26 Nov 2021 2:30 AM IST

NHAI plans to develop 57 stretches as model national highways. (PTI Photo)

Dilip Cherian | Niti Aayog performance under review, rejig on cards

The last time Aayog was reconstituted was when current vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar was appointed after the resignation of...

25 Nov 2021 2:55 AM IST

The farmers are hard-nosed realists and they are not sentimental romantic fools like their urban supporters and urban opponents. Representational Image. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Farmers can't be fooled: Govt looks...

The farmers who are now demanding a law which assures MSP are not taking advantage of Mr Modi's goodwill gesture

25 Nov 2021 2:30 AM IST

However casual and cavalier it may have sounded, Mr Modis November 19 address could mark a new beginning. (PTI)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will repeal of farm laws mark a new beginning?

The manner in which the three laws were hustled through the two Houses of Parliament suggested little respect for...

24 Nov 2021 3:43 AM IST

Seeing social movements as a group that war must be waged against is a preposterous suggestion by Mr Doval. (PTI)

Anita Anand | Civil society: New frontier of internal war in India?

In democracies, civil society holds up a mirror to government, acting as a watchdog, representing the interests of...

24 Nov 2021 3:21 AM IST

Thomas Babbington Macaulays codification of Indian law came into effect and the Indian Police Act introduced uniform police service throughout India. (Twitter)

Mohan Guruswamy | Good governance means long-term government!

Clearly, we need to restructure the government and administration in each of India's 590 or so districts

23 Nov 2021 2:05 AM IST

Boris Johnson not only failed to be consistent protecting the wrongdoer one day and abandoning him the next, he then donned ashes and sackcloth and became an enthusiast for banning second jobs for MPs. (AP)

Kishwar Desai | Post sleaze' row, MPs frosty with Boris; re-writing'...

Boris Johnson, who was unbeatable and riding high four weeks ago, cannot do anything right any more

22 Nov 2021 4:24 AM IST

The compulsory use of Aadhaar to access subsidised grain has meant that many of the poor cannot get their entitlement because connectivity is bad or their fingerprints have been eroded from labour and differ from the record. Representational Image. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | Why farm law recall miffed some in middle class, media

What some of us think are strong, bold and firm decisions are cruel, harsh and unwanted for others

22 Nov 2021 3:26 AM IST

PM Modi has suddenly backtracked by announcing on Gurupurab, associated with Guru Nanak, his governments decision to annul the three farm laws. Representational Image. (PTI)

K.C. Singh | Diverse dilemmas: Power for Modi, economy for Xi

Controversy again arose about Chinese disturbance of the status quo at the 3,488 kilometre-long Line of Actual Control

22 Nov 2021 2:46 AM IST

Hoping for a world that understands whats going to happen to all of us and a world which doesnt look at bandaid quick fixes but at longer, happier solutions. (DC Image)

Ranjona Banerji | Old age, the final frontier; best to manage...

I forgive all of you who still believe that in some golden age we lived for hundreds of years

21 Nov 2021 3:31 AM IST

Both General Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), did not want a federal government to be headed by Sheikh Mujibur Rehman of the predominantly East Pakistan-based Awami League. (Twitter)

Manish Tewari | November 21st, 1971

On March 25, 1971, the West Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight massacring

21 Nov 2021 2:21 AM IST