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Sunil Gatade | Can Modi Find ‘New Ideas’ To Give BJP Momentum?

Sunil Gatade | Can Modi Find ‘New Ideas’ To Give BJP Momentum?

Ideas make a man, and here Narendra Modi is not moving an inch beyond his oft-repeated card of communal polarisation....

31 Aug 2025 9:26 PM IST

Chandrajit Banerjee | What We Should Do To Make India More Competitive: A Reform Roadmap

Chandrajit Banerjee | What We Should Do To Make India More...

The recently released CII report on “Policies for a Competitive India” lays down more than 250 actionable...

31 Aug 2025 9:13 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | PM’s Ghuspetiya Outrage: Isn’t It Too Little, Too Late?

Pavan K. Varma | PM’s Ghuspetiya Outrage: Isn’t It Too Little, Too...

The Election Commission of India (EC) made a general statement that there are “large numbers of people from Nepal,...

30 Aug 2025 9:38 PM IST

Anita Katyal | Is BJP Rattled By Opp.’s Voter Rally? Big Fuss Over Film on Gopal Pantha

Anita Katyal | Is BJP Rattled By Opp.’s Voter Rally? Big Fuss Over...

Right wingers in India were particularly ecstatic when Donald Trump took over the US Presidency for a second time early...

30 Aug 2025 9:25 PM IST

Shreya Sen-Handley | Why Celebrate B’days Well Into Our Dotage

Shreya Sen-Handley | Why Celebrate B’days Well Into Our Dotage

In the case of my eldest child who pooped panic-green Meconium on his way out, when my body started fighting the alien...

30 Aug 2025 8:22 PM IST

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Of Robert Clive, The Spice Trade And Famine During The British Raj In India | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Of Robert Clive, The Spice Trade And Famine...

Of course, the bronze statue in Whitehall is a monument to the view of British colonial history as a great civilising...

29 Aug 2025 10:21 PM IST

REFLECTIONS | Will Trump’s Man In Delhi Help India Mend Fences? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | Will Trump’s Man In Delhi Help India Mend Fences? |...

India must also beware of the sleight of hand practised by some American diplomats when Jawaharlal Nehru was clamouring...

29 Aug 2025 10:06 PM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | 30 Days That Shook World: Games With Constitution

Shikha Mukerjee | 30 Days That Shook World: Games With Constitution

Two basic questions arise from introduction of a constitutional amendment that could be a belated effort to legislate on...

28 Aug 2025 11:15 PM IST

Dilip Cherian | Delhi Gets a New Top Cop, Right On Cue

Dilip Cherian | Delhi Gets a New Top Cop, Right On Cue

Satish Golcha, a 1992-batch IPS officer, walked into the commissioner’s office on August 21, a day after chief minister...

28 Aug 2025 11:06 PM IST

M.P. Nathanael | Targeting of Nuns Shows Vital Need to protect Christians from Persecution

M.P. Nathanael | Targeting of Nuns Shows Vital Need to protect...

The false propaganda by fundamentalist elements that Christians are out to convert others is gaining ground

27 Aug 2025 7:06 AM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | India, Russia and China: Collaborators or Rivals?

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | India, Russia and China: Collaborators or Rivals?

China feels that the relationship with India should not be determined solely by the disagreements on border issues

27 Aug 2025 7:04 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Does India Really Have A Policy On Pakistan? Signals Appear Confusing

Aakar Patel | Does India Really Have A Policy On Pakistan? Signals...

(1) India will talk to Pakistan. (2) India will not talk to Pakistan. (3) India will not talk to Pakistan so long as it...

25 Aug 2025 11:13 PM IST