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Arvind Kejriwal

It's too early for AAP to expand beyond Delhi

There was also a clear signal that he wanted to expand the AAP beyond Delhi.

18 Feb 2020 1:27 AM IST

One of the great scholars when it comes to Urdu literature, Gopi Chand Narang, was quoted as saying that, Urdu is not the language of Muslims. If at all there is any language of Muslims, it should be Arabic. Urdu belongs to the composite culture of India. Hindi and Urdu are supplementary and complementary. They are like sisters strengthening each other .

India no more a beacon for democracy in South Asia?

Kashmir, too, remains under control by dint of the harshest crackdown ever seen in the held Valley.

17 Feb 2020 1:40 AM IST

US president Donald Trump

South Block must shift to civility in discourse

The fundamental issue is the methodology a government adopts to deal with domestic or international criticism.

17 Feb 2020 1:35 AM IST

Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar

Telangana needs a new women's commission

More than half of the female population in the state actively participates in the electoral process.

16 Feb 2020 2:34 AM IST

Well, it is clearly astonishing that the alleged xx-inch-you-know-what is being turned against ladies assembled at Shaheen Bagh. One may be wrong, but political jargons through various means are strongly suggestive of this.

Jungle drama and the Indian animal farm'

Money talks in politics more convincingly than probably any other language.

16 Feb 2020 2:29 AM IST

Arvind Kejriwal

Seismic changes haunt BJP after Delhi shock

To be sure the city of Delhi a cossetted child of emperors starting with the Great Mughals is spoilt silly.

15 Feb 2020 3:07 AM IST

William Shakespeare

Lear's lessons for our times: Should armies be retired?

Zia Mohyeddin's latest production King Lear was performed in Lahore by the National Academy of Performing Arts, after an...

15 Feb 2020 3:03 AM IST

Picture of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) facility destroyed by Indian Ar Force strikes in Balakot, Pakistan.(Photo: ANI)

A year after Pulwama, it's time for outreach in J&K

In the case of the Balakot strike, it assiduously launched a disinformation campaign that there was no impact of the...

14 Feb 2020 2:23 AM IST

Bernie Sanders (Photo: AP)

Why, for the Democrats, Bernie clearly is the best bet

The evaluation of Sanders still rings true 20 years later, unlike the author of those words, who has dived headlong into...

13 Feb 2020 5:42 AM IST

US President Donald Trump has said that he is considering signing the first phase of the long-awaited trade deal with China in Iowa. (Photo: File)

Interrogating democracy: Make do with what you have

Authoritarian regimes and illiberal democracies that cloak their rule in democratic garb are excluded from the analysis.

12 Feb 2020 2:36 AM IST

A child dressed as Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal holds a blue balloon at the party headquarters in New Delhi on February 11, 2020. (AFP)

In AAP's triumph, a new kind of politics emerges

In many ways, Mr Kejriwal and Mr Modi are both modern politicians of the 21st century.

12 Feb 2020 2:32 AM IST

Mahinda Rajapaksa is credited with a military victory ending a 26-year separatist civil war with ethnic Tamil rebels during his presidency from 2005 to 2015. (Photo: ANI)

Rajapaksas must try to heal civil war's wounds

The Tibet Autonomous Region's more than 40 ethnic minorities account for 95 per cent of its population.

11 Feb 2020 1:45 AM IST