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Mohan Guruswamy | Check India's corruption, or insurgencies will go up

A just and relatively honest society requires a system that inflicts swift and commensurate retribution on transgressors

11 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | India, world in middle of a Third World War'

It's not just India. The world is in the midst of a long-drawn, protracted Third World War

10 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Kishwar Desai | Indian summer on UK's red list; royal duchesses in...

Some people are deeply unhappy that these restrictions are still in place, despite the vaccine

10 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

The billions of tax dollars avoided by multinational e-commerce, whilst feeding off the commercial data generated by their customers, often without explicit permission and without compensation and we have a fishbowl of growing global inequity. (Photo: AFP)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The social media djinn: Excluding and unsocial

India women are 26 per cent less likely to access mobile Internet due to misogyny, harassment and revenge porn

9 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Modernity with all its commitment to freedoms and reason is sought to be subordinated by monumental architecture to the will of the fascist state. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | The architecture of hubris

Fascism has a strange fascination with architecture

9 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Critical COVID-19 patients receive free oxygen at a Sikh Gurudwara, amid the rise in coronavirus cases across the country, at Indirapuram in Ghaziabad. (Photo: PTI)

K.C. Singh | Heal at home first, then try to be a global leader

Mr Jaishankar, even when overseas, has become a flag-bearer for the current Hindutva model, precursor to the RSS' Hindu...

8 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Ms Symonds is accused, apart from crony appointments of interventions in policy areas that affect the country, decisions that very many Conservatives and people in government are convinced that BoJo would not have taken had it not been for her prevalent influence. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Is Carrie, UK's First Girlfriend, the real driver of...

It is a fact that she has packed the staff and advisory phalanx of the PM's office with her friends and people she...

8 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

In its May 5 verdict, the Supreme Court had spelled out various reasons for disallowing reservations for the Marathas. (DC file photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The case against quotas isn't about...

The reservations issue poses a special dilemma for Shiv Sena and BJP, as both subscribe to conservative ideologies of...

7 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

A patient struggles to breathes with the help of oxygen provided by a Gurudwara (Sikh Temple) under a tent installed along a roadside amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic in Ghaziabad on May 4, 2021. (Photo: AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Inequity & privilege in the time of a pandemic

Even in these traumatic times, those of us who can work from home, for instance, are massively better positioned than...

6 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Tripura DM who cracked whip at a wedding faces storm...

A video that recorded the incident went viral on the social media and political parties are gunning for him

6 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Senior leaders of 21 opposition parties including the Congress, Trinamool Congress, TDP, AAP, NCP and the DMK. (Representational Image/PTI)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | After Bengal, Opposition must devise national...

Opposition parties have to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each party and leader and allocate responsibility...

5 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

File photo of Congress President Rahul Gandhi with senior party leader Sonia Gandhi during Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, at AICC HQ in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Anita Katyal | Cong intra-party democracy is first casualty of poor...

The Congress was originally scheduled to elect its new president in May but it was deferred till June on the pretext of...

5 May 2021 12:00 AM IST