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Right now, there is a physical difference between the PMs House and the PMs Office. By coalescing these together, we will be creating a White House or even a Kremlin, with executive power concentrated in one structure. (Twitter)

Mohan Guruswamy | Modi's new architecture for govt may hurt India

What should cause us concern is the centrality of the Prime Minister's residence and office to this new layout

24 Jun 2021 7:03 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | I-T filing mess: Why try to fix' a system that wasn't...

The question that's hovering over Raisina Hill is, why fix something that isn't broken? That's a question everyone seems...

23 Jun 2021 12:00 AM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | China is many things, but it's definitely not...

The barbarians deserve contempt and should be made to kowtow before the Beijing durbar

23 Jun 2021 12:00 AM IST

A beneficiary receives her first dose of Covid-19 vaccine at a parking lot in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | No good news: It's difficult to be an optimist in India...

India's economic growth has been falling for 42 months now, but the government has not spoken about why that is so and...

22 Jun 2021 7:17 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Biden B3W vs China BRI: Is India the odd man...

India can expect even less sympathy (and no support!) from ASEAN, whose collective trade with China jumped last year to...

22 Jun 2021 7:03 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi participates in the first Outreach Session of the G7 Summit virtually.(Photo: Twitter/@PiyushGoyal)

K.C. Singh | Challenges will rise for India at home, abroad

The G-7 communique captures the main themes under six headings

21 Jun 2021 12:00 AM IST

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 1987 file photo, Britains Diana, the Princess of Wales, is pictured during an evening reception. (Photo: AP)

Kishwar Desai | Question, not cancel, Kipling; murky twist to Diana...

As Freedom Day recedes from the immediate future old stories of Princess Diana's death have resurfaced

21 Jun 2021 12:00 AM IST

I remember clearly the first two major breaks I made with family listening time Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon and then eponymous Dire Straits debut album. (By arrangement)

Ranjona Banerji | Man, they don't write songs like that anymore

My parents' best friends had an Osibisa album they all loved, with the Afro-rock band's signature psychedelic flying...

20 Jun 2021 7:34 AM IST

Galwan clash was the most grave confrontation after the October 20 1975 ambush by the Chinese at Tulung La in which four Assam Rifles personnel lost their lives. (Representational image: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Modi pause on Chumar set the tone for Galwan

In Doklam, in the June of 2017, the NDA/BJP government was more interested in a propaganda triumph rather than a...

20 Jun 2021 7:31 AM IST

Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (AFP Photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | BoJo, Dombo & Carrie: The weird' trio at 10 Downing...

One assumed at the time that Dombo was part of all these plans and failures as he was BoJo's right-hand man

19 Jun 2021 7:16 AM IST

By threatening Twitter officials with jail and publicly contemplating the application of media laws to the social media, the government is putting on public display how spooked, rather than concerned, it is. (Photo: AFP)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Twitter vs Govt: Free speech, interrupted

The role of social media in the current framework is not quite as simple, but whether they are completely hands-off is...

19 Jun 2021 7:07 AM IST

More than a lakh Mysureans performed Yoga with virtual instructions of 12 Yoga experts of Mysuru Yoga federation via facebook live from Mysuru Palace premises. (DC Photo)

Mohan Guruswamy | India's culture & how it evolved Yoga is exercise,...

If yoga is Hindu, then karate is Buddhist, kung fu is Confucian and taekwondo also Buddhist

18 Jun 2021 7:14 AM IST