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In this file photo taken on December 8, 2020 a member of staff draws the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine out of a phial at the Southmead Hospital, Briston. (Graeme Robertson / various sources / AFP)

Shobhaa De | V is for valour, victory But V is also for vaccine!

Questions about decisions that will affect the heath and well-being of our planet will be decided by politicians!

12 Dec 2020 9:01 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Why we need to tolerate' all those who have contrary...

If language is the avatar of thought, then ideas, propositions and proofs are the recipes in the avatar's cookbook

12 Dec 2020 8:38 AM IST

Cover page of the Calligraphic copy of the Constitution of India in English released on the Golden Jubilee Celebration of Republic of India in Central Hall of Parliament House on January 27, 2000 (Photo credit: Department of Justice, Governemnt of India)

Karan Thapar | How Nehru had gutted the Constitution in 1951

So sweeping were the changes that constitutional scholar Upendra Baxi calls the post-amendment document 'the second...

11 Dec 2020 9:12 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Boris' fumbling holds lessons for the world

While British waters are much richer in fish than the seas surrounding Europe, British trawlers make their money selling...

10 Dec 2020 12:05 AM IST

Leher Sethi | Is air pollution a greater pandemic than coronavirus?

As a parent, I dread Delhi winters, not just because of the cold, but because of the terrible pollution in the air

10 Dec 2020 12:01 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Babus angered by Haryana IAS cadre post appointments

Haryana IAS officer and well-known whistleblower Ashok Khemka has entered the fray with his take on the issue

9 Dec 2020 8:01 PM IST

Anand K. Sahay | At the Singhu border: An agitation like none other

Is it a farmers' 'sit-in' when the protest stretches over many invisible miles, or is it the whole society marching on...

9 Dec 2020 7:57 PM IST

Brahmaputra River (Photo: Youtube)

Mohan Guruswamy | Worry on Brahmaputra waters seems misplaced

A published paper estimates that the utilisable water of the Brahmaputra system is just four percent of the total...

8 Dec 2020 9:16 AM IST

Farmers during their Delhi Chalo protest march against the new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi, Sunday, December 6 (PTI/Manvender Vashist)

Aakar Patel | Will Centre be forced to give in to the farmers?

Notice the similarities between the farmers' movement and the protests across the country against the citizenship...

8 Dec 2020 8:39 AM IST

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks on November job numbers at the Queen theater on December 4, Wilmington, Delaware. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Manish Tewari | Biden in Afghanistan

Biden inherits. In a piece in the Foreign Affairs magazine in spring, Biden stated: It is past time to end the forever...

7 Dec 2020 9:39 AM IST

An NHS pharmacy technician simulates the preparation of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, during a staff training session ahead of the vaccines rollout next week, at the Royal Free Hospital in London on December 4. (Yui Mok / POOL / AFP)

Kishwar Desai | After vax first, will lucky Boris' swing Brexit deal?

The triumph of UK being first in the world among the vaxxers' did not go down well with everyone

7 Dec 2020 8:59 AM IST

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Shashi Warrier | Let 'Em Eat Cake!

The purpose of governance in India is to create and manage queues. Where there are queues, there are people willing to...

6 Dec 2020 7:40 AM IST