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Dilip Cherian | Private sector specialists will helm Modi's reforms...

While it would be erroneous to see political colour in what should be seen as usual assignments, few observers are...

22 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

India now has the worlds fastest-growing Covid-19 caseload, adding more than 250,000 new infections every day for the past week or so. (Photo: PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Lessons not learnt after a year of battling...

Once again, we are locked down. And migrant workers are leaving out of fear of being abandoned. How did we get here?

22 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Former UP minister Akhilesh Yadav offers prayers on the banks of Ganga river during Kumbh Mela 2021, in Haridwar, Sunday, April 11, 2021. (PTI)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Hindu politics' by Opposition is a sign of...

The (Hindu) Opposition leaders now mask past commitment and efforts at increasing the political representation of...

20 April 2021 11:55 PM IST

Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard near a polling booth as voters wait to cast their votes during the fifth phase of West Bengal state elections in Newtown Rajarhat, North 24 Parganas district, India, Saturday, April 17, 2021. (AP)

Sanjay Kumar | Bengal lesson: Drawbacks of a multi-phase state...

Was planning an eight-phase poll spread over a month, and during a pandemic too boot, wrong, after all?

20 April 2021 11:55 PM IST

You cannot expect to be given a position on the UN Security Council, as India does, when the world sees what you are doing with distaste. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | How the world sees India is changing not for the better

India's urban unemployment is at a historic high and, more important, the participation rate of India's labour force is...

20 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Pakistans generals, who own and control the Taliban, want more than anything else to forcefully and completely eject all Indian presence from Afghanistan. (Photo: AFP)

Indranil Banerjie | US Afghan exit a pyrrhic victory for Pak generals?

The last time the Taliban had taken over Afghanistan, 26 years ago, India's historical presence in Afghanistan was...

20 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

For all his continued popularity, at least as shown in the opinion polls, the fact is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been at the head of an incompetent administrative response to the pandemic. (Photo: PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | Ideology or competence: What do the voters want?

Politicians are voted in and voted out for a variety of reasons, but rarely have they been voted out for incompetence

19 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his principal operative, Union home minister Amit Shah, the saffron partys new sutra is to form a government in a state through any means. (Photo: PTI)

Anand K. Sahay | The idea behind capturing power in any kind of way:...

The BJP may or may not win the Assembly elections in Assam. But winning a poll fair and square is not the metric any...

19 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

The Modi government likes the label of a decisive government, but its actions are quite to the contrary. (Photo: AFP)

Pavan K. Varma | Second wave gives the lie to Modi's decisive' image

The second Covid wave has vividly shown the glaring gulf between image and delivery of the Modi Sarkar

18 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Women leaders belonging to the TMC have also slammed the Prime Minister, saying this was not just an insult to an elected chief minister but to all women. (Photo: AFP)

Anita Katyal | Modi's Didi' jibe offends women; what AAP shares with...

Roadside Romeos have apparently been mimicking the Prime Minister, using the same catcall, when they see women on the...

18 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Old sport! The story of my fitness journey

After you reach a certain age and size, in my case at least, your thoughts turn to another age and size, largely...

18 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Devotees gather to offer prayers during the third Shahi Snan of the Kumbh Mela 2021, at Har ki Pauri Ghat in Haridwar. (Photo: PTI)

Shobhaa De | Kal Ho Na Ho: Inept govt messes up war on Covid

Dealing with Covid is a lot easier than dealing with our callous netas

17 April 2021 12:00 AM IST