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WIDE ANGLE | What The Election Results Mean: See Tripura Example & What It May Signal | Saeed Naqvi

WIDE ANGLE | What The Election Results Mean: See Tripura Example &...

One day my neighbour in South Delhi, a former Tripura DGP, B.L. Vohra, dropped in. He was wrapped up in nostalgia about...

25 Nov 2025 11:55 PM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | From 26/11 to Delhi 10/11: Terror Raises Bar In India

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | From 26/11 to Delhi 10/11: Terror Raises Bar...

The suicide mission was undertaken with the detonation of a “chemical weapon” at the Red Fort-Chandni Chowk confluence...

25 Nov 2025 11:45 PM IST

Aakar Patel | Is Kashmir Times Targeted Because It Is Standing Up For J&K’s Rights?

Aakar Patel | Is Kashmir Times Targeted Because It Is Standing Up For...

On June 2, 2020, the Narendra Modi government announced “New Media Policy 2020”, a policy that was specific to Kashmir....

24 Nov 2025 10:55 PM IST

Reflections | Can South Asia Prosper With India-Pak Détente? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

Reflections | Can South Asia Prosper With India-Pak Détente? | Sunanda...

Pakistan’s armed forces are only between two-and-a-half to three times smaller than India’s, having been built up at the...

24 Nov 2025 10:03 PM IST

Anita Anand | Global Citizens: The Antidote To Identity Politics

Anita Anand | Global Citizens: The Antidote To Identity Politics

In Mr Mamdani’s victory, even more so. He’s young (indicating inexperience), says he’s Muslim (highlighting the Other),...

23 Nov 2025 10:12 PM IST

SANJAYOVACHA | A Mind In Fear In India of Gandhi and Tagore | Sanjaya Baru

SANJAYOVACHA | A Mind In Fear In India of Gandhi and Tagore | Sanjaya...

It was the free flow of modern science into colonial India that enabled a C.V. Raman to earn a Nobel Prize and a...

23 Nov 2025 9:56 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | If Cong Doesn’t Transform, New Alternative Inevitable

Pavan K. Varma | If Cong Doesn’t Transform, New Alternative Inevitable

Has the Congress withered away? The question arises with every successive electoral setback. The idea of the Congress is...

22 Nov 2025 11:29 PM IST

Anita Katyal | BJP Has Nitish On Tight Leash; In UP, It’s SIR Over Surname

Anita Katyal | BJP Has Nitish On Tight Leash; In UP, It’s SIR Over...

The BJP may have been forced to concede the chief minister’s post to Nitish Kumar but, JD(U) insiders maintain, their...

22 Nov 2025 11:04 PM IST

Shreya Sen-Handley | No Time Like Now To Relish Your Diversity

Shreya Sen-Handley | No Time Like Now To Relish Your Diversity

Celebrating Diwali late this year because of school exams, we joyfully carried home sheesh kebabs, samosas, jalebis,...

22 Nov 2025 10:56 PM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | UK Is Trying New Ways to Halt Rise in Immigration, Asylum-Seekers

Farrukh Dhondy | UK Is Trying New Ways to Halt Rise in Immigration,...

“No, nothing can bring back the hourNo apologies, retractions or tearsThe seasons rot the brightest flaming...

21 Nov 2025 10:13 PM IST

Shobhaa De | ‘Parasocials’ Rock… Let’s Ask Rahul, Rajni, Shashi

Shobhaa De | ‘Parasocials’ Rock… Let’s Ask Rahul, Rajni, Shashi

As this dramatic year slides into the last month of 2025, it kinda makes most people feel a bit stupid. We scratch our...

21 Nov 2025 10:04 PM IST

Monideepa Banerjie | After Hasina Verdict, Will The Spirit Of ’71 Survive?

Monideepa Banerjie | After Hasina Verdict, Will The Spirit Of ’71...

Bangladesh wants its former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to be extradited to her country, now she has been sentenced to...

20 Nov 2025 11:06 PM IST