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If people have a reason to pretend to love your children, or pets, or care about your diet and exercise, or your last holiday in real life, then only is their pretence a real fake, else just a solicitation for a barter. (Photo: AFP)

Stop being paranoid. Your FB friend won't give money even to your...

Trust me, no one is rushing to helping your fake profile owner loads of money on his mere pretence of being in trouble

14 March 2021 4:16 AM IST

The Gandhis state of funk may have been enhanced last week by Gujarat where, contrary to the promise of 2017, the Congress has been beaten to a pulp by the BJP in the local body elections. (Photo: PTI)

Saeed Naqvi | Gandhis have had it if Congress flops in May

As for the Congress Party (The House), senior members have already bolted and joined the BJP

13 March 2021 4:30 AM IST

We take skin colourism as a nasty ingredient of our prejudices -- which we shouldnt. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | My adventures with Oprah, the real queen of...

Interviews with royals are like a virus plague, you don't want to catch them, but you can't avoid hearing all about them

13 March 2021 4:10 AM IST

About 400 million Indians have no access to the Internet. Far fewer women have access to cellphones and Internet services. (Photo: AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | All must get vaccine: Say no to class, digital...

The euphoria about getting the jab seems to be confined so far to the better-off sections of society

12 March 2021 12:13 AM IST

Of concern to India is the United States pushing Afghanistan towards what the draft paper sent to all parties, including the Taliban, calls the Afghanistan Peace Agreement. (Photo: AP)

K.C. Singh | Afghan trouble looming: Pak likely to make gains

The Biden presidency has directly or indirectly impacted other South Asian developments too

11 March 2021 4:06 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Coalition karma takes babu to chief secy spot

A coalition alliance government creates its own special dynamics, which affects the bureaucracy uniquely

10 March 2021 7:30 AM IST

The focus of the Assembly elections in four states and a Union territory has centred around West Bengal and the big question is whether the BJP under PM Modi will breach the final barrier, as it were, for the right-wing saffron party. (AP/Bikas Das)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Modi's pan-Indian image won't help BJP win...

The right-wing party is learning the hard way that multitudinous India is a multipolar political field

10 March 2021 7:21 AM IST

Aakar Patel | India's image in free fall, but govt in denial on real...

The fact is that we do very well on political rights, and in fact the government gets 3/4 on transparency, which is...

9 March 2021 11:28 AM IST

The Indian flag flies at the Civil Secretariat in Srinagar on Sunday. The Jammu & Kashmir flag has been removed after the abrogation of Article 370. (Photo: AP)

Mohan Guruswamy | Stop meddle & muddle: Rework regional policy

Our diplomats have tended to be overbearing with the smaller non-hostile neighbours, often treating them like errant...

9 March 2021 11:17 AM IST

Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah waves at supporters during his election campaign roadshow at Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, Sunday, March 7, 2021. (PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | Competitive politics & competitive economy

If the regional parties and the Congress in Assam manage to defeat BJP, these elections will mark a turning point in...

7 March 2021 11:55 PM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Mamata's long game: Women's status in Bengal is...

If Narendra Modi and his 56-inch chest is the epitome of male power, the barely 60-inch frame of Ms Banerjee is the...

7 March 2021 11:55 PM IST

Anita Katyal | On Azad, Cong misfired twice; how's Tomar for new MP...

It may appear far-fetched but there is a connection between the West Bengal election and Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh...

7 March 2021 4:28 AM IST