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A new generation of RSS and BJP leaders are not inclined to update the Hindutva ideology because their basic presumption of glorifying a dead national past is their basic principle. (Photo:PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Hosabale's rise: RSS-BJP ties still remain...

If the BJP survives in power, it may not need the RSS much longer

29 March 2021 4:19 AM IST

Now the news that our vaccine supply may be interrupted because the new wave in India will impact vaccine exports to the UK has spread gloom. (Photo: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | India wave hits UK's vax drive, amid adulation for...

India was headlined on the front page fortunately, in a way, it was a compliment, not a criticism

29 March 2021 4:01 AM IST

A country that lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2004 and 2014 is today staring at the spectre of a growing income and wealth inequality. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | INDIA'S GILDED AGE

This privatisation turned out to be more of a societal shock, rather than therapy for an ailing economy

28 March 2021 4:49 AM IST

Weve all been here before; reassured by our leaders that theyll take firm steps to protect women, we watch history repeating as they blithely fail. (Photo: PTI)

Shreya Sen-Handley | Connecting the Dots

After rampaging diseases, our single biggest problem is male violence

28 March 2021 4:21 AM IST

Saeed Naqvi | Acknowledge potential of Pope-Sistani historic tryst

Pardon my Lucknow chauvinism, but the benighted city once had intimate links with the centre of Shia Islam, Najaf, in...

28 March 2021 4:06 AM IST

There are other ways in which BoJos government behaves in an unsurprising manner. (Photo: AFP)

BoJo facing flak over legal' graft, dodging of tax & the nanny state'

Boris Johnson govt has, because of the Covid-19 crisis, done some peculiar things for a Conservative Party to have...

27 March 2021 4:46 AM IST

Whether people and voters will see through the BJPs cynical use of diplomacy for electoral gain or lap it up as realpolitik will be known only on May 2. (Photo: AFP)

K.C. Singh | National interests hurt if politics, diplomacy mixed

India-Bangladesh relations get impacted by the BJP's divisive and majoritarian politics, over illegal immigrants and...

27 March 2021 4:25 AM IST

West Bengal has to decide to be its whimsical wayward self or join the gang. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Bengal to trigger domino effect in Indian politics?

It will not be an easy election for any of the three blocs that are competing for the voters' hearts and minds

26 March 2021 4:30 AM IST

Will J&K-AGMUT cadre merger solve Valley's problem of sparse...

The cadre merger, the Centre hopes, will allow officers in the AGMUT cadre to be posted in J&K and Ladakh, and...

25 March 2021 4:38 AM IST

Until a state of herd immunity is reached, mask-wearing, hand washing with soap and social distancing will have to necessarily remain. (Photo: PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Halt Covid complacency: Be vigilant, keep all...

If we become complacent, and drop our guard, infections can rise. That affects us all

25 March 2021 4:17 AM IST

Wang Yi, Chinas foreign minister. (http://in.china-embassy.org)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | India should not fall for China's charm...

Why do we forget humiliation and treachery when the adversary puts on its benign mask and pretend to place all...

23 March 2021 11:55 PM IST

Why is the Narendra Modi government sending letters to the states that they should have strict enforcement of crowd control when Mr Modi is himself holding giant rallies. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | The unreality' of India today: Nothing makes sense any...

The second wave of Covid-19 had begun at the end of February, so the question is why spectators were allowed into the...

23 March 2021 7:55 AM IST