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Shashi Warrier | The mushroom business

Blind faith leaves you unaware of its ill effects. There's a profit to be made out of that faith

2 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Should we write English as it's spoken? Or just leave...

Despite its anti-phonic spelling, English has become the language of many nations albeit through colonisation and...

1 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Victims of Covid-19 being cremated at Dwarka cremation ground in New Delhi, Friday, April 30, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Shobhaa De | Can blatant lies save India from Covid-19?

The people of India are the country's real strength, while its biggest tragedy are its politicians

1 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Relatives and family members perform last rites during mass cremation of COVID-19 victims, at Swar Rekha Ghat cremation ground, in Ranchi. (Photo: PTI)

Karan Thapar | India's grim reality out in the open as myths busted

It wasn't so long ago that we convinced ourselves we are a superpower or, at least, one that's definitely in the making

30 April 2021 4:51 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | CVC ups ante, asks ministries to sort plaints within 3...

The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has run into a wall of bureaucratic denial

29 April 2021 4:18 AM IST

$Students waving flags of the Communist Party as they prepare to watch a movie \The Founding of a Party\ in Yangzhou, in Chinas eastern Jiangsu province, to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. (Photo: AFP)$ Opinion

Claude Arpi | China's new weapon is political archaeology'

In February this year, the Communist Party of China (CPC) started a new campaign called Party History Learning and...

29 April 2021 4:10 AM IST

Family members of COVID-19 patients wait outside an oxygen-filling centre to refill their empty cylinders, as demand for the gas rises due to spike in coronavirus cases, at Naraina, in New Delhi, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (PTI/Manvender Vashist)

Sunanda K. Datta Ray | Caring governance vital to save lives & India's...

The devastating second wave might not have struck so ferociously had it not been for the government's triumphalism

28 April 2021 7:23 AM IST

Mass cremation of Covid-19 victims at cremation Ground Madan Puri, in Gurugram. (Photo: PTI)

K C Singh | Covid mess to cost govt dear at home & abroad

Covid-19's 2nd wave hit India soon afterwards, with India's leadership preoccupied with crucial state elections, the...

27 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Burning pyres of victims who lost their lives due to the Covid-19 coronavirus are seen at a cremation ground in New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | India's health calamity has exposed flaws in Gujarat...

There is no example of a developed nation that had a Third World education and healthcare system

27 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

The Election Commission dismissed the plea by Mamata Banerjee that the eight-phase election was very risky. It seemed to pay more attention to the BJPs jeers that the eight-phase election was necessary to ensure peaceful, free and fair elections. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Mishandling elections in the time of a pandemic

Through super-spreader events and shoddy observance of Covid protocols, Citizens are paying twice over for the EC's...

26 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

A fitting farewell for Prince Philip; Cameron, Carrie graft entertains

The big event of the past fortnight has, of course, been the Royal funeral

26 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

A COVID-19 patient receives free oxygen, provided by a Sikh organization at Indirapuram Gurudwara, in Ghaziabad. (Photo: PTI)

Sucheta Dasgupta | Hope in the time of sorrow and C-virus

Despite its no-pussyfooting bravado and stupendous majority, the govt did not declare a lockdown on Holi. The Kumbh...

25 April 2021 12:00 AM IST