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Farrukh Dhondy | All the world's a stage: Gender, race, diversity &...

Through the last few decades, no choric group of white singers in the West would blacken their faces to represent black...

12 Jun 2021 12:17 AM IST

Now, the cases heard by the Supreme Court have anywhere between two and 30 parties. Who decides who will be unmuted? (PTI)

Karan Thapar | Sedition: Time for SC to enforce its own rulings

96 per cent of sedition cases for criticising politicians and governments over the last decade were registered after...

11 Jun 2021 12:11 AM IST

Shilpa Nag, the Mysuru corporation commissioner, reportedly resigned from the IAS after accusing her senior, Rohini Sundari Dasari, deputy commissioner of the district, of interfering in her efforts to manage the pandemic.(ANI)

Dilip Cherian | As Centre-state crossfire builds up, morale sinks

A sarkari house in Delhi, as any government babu will tell you, is all about availability and location

10 Jun 2021 1:24 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Why monopoly of power is a threat to democracy

In short, no matter how legitimately political power is acquired, justice demands the balancing factor of an opposition

10 Jun 2021 1:03 AM IST

A militant killed in an encounter with security forces in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. (PTI Photo)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Turbulent Afghanistan could impact Kashmir

Obviously, the flavour for jihadism is low at present, but it would be incorrect to assume it is all over

9 Jun 2021 12:35 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Modi's 15-point Vikas Yatra: How far has his govt really...

The Vikas Yatra document does not refer to what the result of India climbing on the index was

8 Jun 2021 7:21 AM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | It's not for India to clean up the Afghanistan mess

If that Afghan situation were to boil over it will spill out mostly into Pakistan, a country quite dedicated to our...

8 Jun 2021 7:15 AM IST

The ceremony on the Bank Holiday weekend had only a few family members attending amid claims that even the Prime Ministers children from his previous marriages/relationships were not invited. (AP)

Kishwar Desai | Canny Carrie's thrifty choice; a princess by any other...

Already there is talk that the Freedom Day may be shifted to July 5, so it is getting more and more difficult to plan...

7 Jun 2021 1:32 AM IST

These are extremely testing times for Ms Banerjee as the TMCs supremo as she has acquired a maturity in the 10 years that has added to the aura of her leadership.

Shikha Mukerjee | Mamata's priorities as TMC sets a new course

The changes that Mamata has made in filling leadership positions in the frontal organisations is her way of...

7 Jun 2021 12:19 AM IST

When you buy a large lump of meat, cut it up before you put it in the freezer! (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Shashi Warrier | The joys, perils and disasters of cooking

That evening, I bought a two-kilo chunk of meat along with my regular groceries

6 Jun 2021 12:36 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the partys central leadership have emerged as the main target of the West Bengal BJP leaders. PTI

Manish Tewari | Acche Din: No one ever said it would be this hard

The Indian economy has tanked to its worst performing levels

6 Jun 2021 12:26 PM IST

Construction work underway as part of the Central Vista Redevelopment Project, at Rajpath in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Sachin Shridhar | Central Vista: To build or not to build

Time will judge the work which Bimal Patel produces, but the naysayers have already denounced the baby as ugly even...

5 Jun 2021 7:20 AM IST