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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

Indian soldiers keep watch at India-China border. (AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | The challenges of living next to Chinese dragon

It would thus seem India and China are destined to live out the foreseeable future as rivals, if not adversaries

23 March 2021 7:25 AM IST

China has for long been a factor in relations between India and the United States. (Photo: PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | India and US: It's still the economy, stupid

Securing US support for India's economic rise is as important for India as strengthening its defence capabilities

21 March 2021 11:31 PM IST

The battle between the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamul Congress and its main challenger, the BJP, is intensifying with both sides pulling no punches in showing the other one down. (Photo: PTI)

Anita Katyal | Mithun made to wait after biting bait; Mamata's game of...

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has been proactive in denying access to journalists to Parliament

21 March 2021 4:36 AM IST

We have new custodians of morality who are easily outraged by anything that does not fit into their conservative, upper-caste, patriarchal and outdated notions of correct behaviour. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan Varma | Let it rip! Stop us turning into the Republic of Hurt

A highly unwarranted subjectivity driven by medieval cultural notions and political hubris is threatening creative...

21 March 2021 4:00 AM IST

Shobhaa De | Something rotten Why is Maha in such a mess?

The political golmal going on in Mumbai reads like a tawdry, hastily written script of a C-grade 1970s' Bollywood flop

20 March 2021 11:50 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | For UK, Sarah Everard killing a wake-up call like...

To Britain the murder of Sarah was what the Nirbhaya rape-murder was to India

20 March 2021 11:45 AM IST

If Rahul Gandhi is going to be our Prime Minister one day, he needs to learn how to handle awkward situations, in particular those connected to his familys past. (Photo: PTI)

Karan Thapar | Of Rahul, Indira and the mistake' of Emergency

Indira Gandhi didn't think the Emergency was a mistake and she certainly didn't apologise for it

19 March 2021 4:45 AM IST

If the women voters of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu vote the way they have voted in the past, it would give an edge to these two parties in the respective states. (Representational Photo: PTI)

Sanjay Kumar | Women voters to play critical role in Bengal & TN...

Women voters are turning out to vote in large numbers both in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections

18 March 2021 4:41 AM IST

Indians who complain loudly and aggressively against the offensive behaviour of white people in the West fall into the same kind of behaviour at home when we deal with blacks and all non-white people whether they are visitors or students. (Representational Photo: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Let's talk about racism Fight it at home,...

Discrimination based on colour is a habit of the mind among people across the length and breadth of Indian society

18 March 2021 4:23 AM IST

Our first stop, was a unique Thai temple designed like a European church, Wat Nivet Thampravat, with stained glass windows, candle stands, stucco work, even metal soldier-figures. (Photo by arrangement)

Lekha Shankar | Ayutthaya: An old city, new insights

A day-trip to Ayutthaya is a first on most tourists' trip to Thailand, especially to Indians who are attracted by the...

17 March 2021 8:44 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Fresh push for lateral entry of babus likely

PM Modi has introduced the mechanism of recruiting fresh talent in the bureaucracy from the private sector during his...

17 March 2021 7:42 AM IST