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There was a magical quality to a tram, as if you were somehow removed from the mad frenzy of normal Calcutta traffic. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Ranjona Banerji | A streetcar named nostalgia

These two cities, as Bombay, Mumbai, Calcutta, Kolkata, define my life

23 Jan 2022 2:09 AM IST

The First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. (AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Moscow's brief foray doused Kazakh turmoil, hasn't ended...

I run my eyes with wonder because the turbulence is totally incompatible with the image of serenity etched on my mind

23 Jan 2022 1:37 AM IST

BoJo was sanctioned for columns he wrote in the Daily Telegraph likening Muslim ladies wearing burqas to letter boxes with round tops and slits below and then to Balaclavaed bank robbers. (Jessica TAYLOR / various sources / AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Truth and lies: A Sobhraj twist as BoJo faces more...

The defection comes as BoJo's participation in the decadent culture of the cabal of politicians and civil servants he...

22 Jan 2022 12:42 AM IST

Indian performers surround a tableaux representing the state of Tamil Nadu during 68th Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 26, 2017. (AFP file photo)

Shobhaa De | I'm now designing my own Republic Day tableau, OK?

Why is Didi's tableau rejected? And Stalin's and Pinarayi Vijayan's? Isn't this a bit too blatant and obvious?

22 Jan 2022 12:09 AM IST

Assam chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma. (PTI)

Dilip Cherian | Assam CM shows off his street cred, but rebuke' to IAS...

The incident got more airtime because the NCP decided to take up cudgels for the poor hapless officer caught in the...

21 Jan 2022 2:19 AM IST

(Clockwise from L) Founder and Executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Klaus Schwab and WEF president Borge Brende listen Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking remotely during the World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos Agenda virtual sessions at the WEFs headquarters in Cologny near Geneva on January 17, 2022. (AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Why it's tough to invest in India: Fix the...

The challenge on the economic front now seems to be to place India as a strategic part of the global supply chain, a...

21 Jan 2022 1:57 AM IST

Public spending on education must increase from 4.43 per cent to six per cent of GDP in the next three-four years. (Representational Image/ DC)

Chandrajit Banerjee | Budget must pave way for ambitious decadal...

It should take forward big, bold reforms and root for policy predictability and stability

20 Jan 2022 2:58 AM IST

Praveen Davar | Looking back: How Goa was made a part of India in 1961

Nehru had made up his mind, and on December 17 Indian troops moved into Goa and, within 26 hours, made it a part of...

20 Jan 2022 1:14 AM IST

Indian army soldiers patrol near the Line of Control (LoC). (PTI file photo)

Aakar Patel | Pakistan's new security policy: How should India...

The policy articulates what it sees as Pakistan's vision and priorities and provides a detailed implementation framework

19 Jan 2022 2:46 AM IST

The government had earlier told the court that begging should not be a crime if it was done due to poverty. It had also said begging will not be decriminalised. (Photo: AFP | Representational)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Identity politics threat to social cohesion in...

Tragically, symbols have acquired all the substitute value of substance under leaders who splash out on the circus of...

19 Jan 2022 1:36 AM IST

Birju Maharaj (1938-2022)

Shovana Narayan | A legend who will live on in our memories

Humour and interest in little details were indelible part of Maharaj ji's character

18 Jan 2022 8:43 AM IST

Union minister of state for food and public distribution system, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, stated in Lok Sabha that in terms of rice, Punjab had contributed 135.89 LMTs while Telangana contributed 94.57 LMTs. (Representational image: PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | The downfall of Punjab: Can it be model' again?

From a breadbasket state it has now become a basket case that is engorged on huge subsidies such as MSP and free...

18 Jan 2022 1:39 AM IST