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Author and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor speak at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

A robust paradigm for real diversity

JLF this year has also been witness to the rise of the new bilingual Indian writer in the persons of Upadhyay, Kunal...

26 Jan 2020 2:07 AM IST

The tiger that the government claims Narendra Modi is, isnt interested in harming the populace.

When people demand their own repression

The tiger that the government claims Mr Modi is, isn't interested in harming the populace.

26 Jan 2020 2:00 AM IST

Nirbhayas mother Asha Devi outside the court on Wednesday. (Photo: Biplab Banerjee)

The death penalty for rape is ineffectual

Latika Vashist has argued compellingly for the need for forgiveness in these pages.

25 Jan 2020 1:10 AM IST

Who will rid the people of Pakistan of the capital curses listed here? No one except they themselves.

Pakistanis are suffering due to the five capital curses

The second example of selective memory is the hullabaloo over the atta price/availability scandal.

24 Jan 2020 1:48 AM IST

A coup of sorts was accomplished by Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he managed to get Amit Shah chosen as party president after he inducted Rajnath Singh, who was midway through his second presidential term, into the Cabinet.

It's no easy time for Nadda, Modi-Shah

Mr Shah would have had another term as president but for the fact that Mr Modi wanted him in the government.

24 Jan 2020 1:45 AM IST

Chandrashekhar Azad

A crisis of healthcare plagues India's jails

The recent public protests against the citizenship law and related matters bring to the fore the issue of a prisoner's...

23 Jan 2020 1:39 AM IST

It is not just the temperature, but the heat accompanied by humidity that makes it dangerous.

Fanning the foreigners

Mastery over a subjugated population, the British soon learnt, is not at all an easy task.

23 Jan 2020 1:35 AM IST

One could go on and on about the effects of climate change, but this newspaper has only 16 pages.

Put health on top of climate agenda

Increased frequency of extreme weather events also contributes to the disease burden.

22 Jan 2020 7:18 AM IST

After the Unnao rape victim succumbed to her injuries in Safdarjung Hospital here, Nirbhayas mother Asha Devi on Saturday said that the system and her seven-year struggle have been defeated today. (Photo: ANI)

Thinking forgiveness, mother-to-mother

The judge asked for restoration of order in the courtroom and the date of hanging was fixed.

22 Jan 2020 7:16 AM IST

Mamata Banerjee (Photo: PTI)

Pluralist vs polarised grassroots democracy

Citizenship as a basic identity has had the effect of bringing the politics down to earth.

21 Jan 2020 4:37 AM IST

As climate change plays out and we see more frequent extreme weather and floods, how communities respond to those events may predict how resilient they become and how they will recover. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

With onset of climate change, securing needs of people vital

So far there is no indication that global temperature increase will be contained within one degree Celsius by 2050.

21 Jan 2020 4:34 AM IST

Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (Photo: PTI)

Decisive measures vital to revive India's growth

The moderation in nominal income growth has affected the consumption spending of the middle class.

20 Jan 2020 1:47 AM IST