Home » Opinion » Columnists

Columnists - Page 4

Dilip Cherian | From IRS To MLA In Record Time: The Sujit Kumar Story

Dilip Cherian | From IRS To MLA In Record Time: The Sujit Kumar Story

Fresh off a decisive Bihar victory, the Modi government has signalled a sharp bureaucratic reset, one that goes far...

20 Nov 2025 10:50 PM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | Eighth Pay Panel: More Peanuts for Monkeys?

Mohan Guruswamy | Eighth Pay Panel: More Peanuts for Monkeys?

The composition of the Eighth Pay Commission has been announced. It will be headed by former Supreme Court judge Ranjana...

19 Nov 2025 9:01 PM IST

Bhopinder Singh | Why, for Many in Bharat, Zohran Mamdani Fails the ‘Indianness’ Test

Bhopinder Singh | Why, for Many in Bharat, Zohran Mamdani Fails the...

Unlike in the case of the success of most foreign politicians who are of Indian origin, or who have some links with...

19 Nov 2025 7:46 PM IST

Syed Ata Hasnain | Urban Radicalisation: The Warning In Delhi

Syed Ata Hasnain | Urban Radicalisation: The Warning In Delhi

The Delhi blast reminds us that while India’s fundamental social resilience remains strong, urban radicalisation has...

18 Nov 2025 10:00 PM IST

Maneka Gandhi | SC Stray Dogs Order Creating Chaos; Can’t Be Implemented

Maneka Gandhi | SC Stray Dogs Order Creating Chaos; Can’t Be...

The most striking resistance came from India’s classrooms. In the first 24 hours, over 800 schools and colleges formally...

18 Nov 2025 9:43 PM IST

Aakar Patel | Why India’s Rank Has Been Falling In Global Indices… But Do We Bother?

Aakar Patel | Why India’s Rank Has Been Falling In Global Indices… But...

On the Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index, India fell from 140 in 2014 to 151 today. RSF says that...

17 Nov 2025 11:54 PM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Looking Through Data Fog: Decode Truth, Lies in India

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Looking Through Data Fog: Decode Truth, Lies in...

India is in the third quintile, along with select countries in South Asia, East Africa and West Africa

17 Nov 2025 10:36 PM IST

Manish Tewari | To Junta From Democracy? How Army Charted Pakistans Fall

Manish Tewari | To Junta From Democracy? How Army Charted Pakistan's...

To grasp the entirety of the chicanery that has come to define Pakistan today, one must reflect on the long history of...

16 Nov 2025 8:45 PM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | With Pot Calling the Kettle Black… Trump & BBC in War of Credibility

Farrukh Dhondy | With Pot Calling the Kettle Black… Trump & BBC in War...

“In the twilightAs I stare at the pink sunsetThrough the dry branches of autumn treesAn imagined sightAccompanied by the...

16 Nov 2025 8:36 PM IST

Kamal Davar | Pak Army’s Sweeping Powers In New Law Puts Top Court, Govt At Field Marshal’s Mercy

Kamal Davar | Pak Army’s Sweeping Powers In New Law Puts Top Court,...

It is worthwhile to study the sweeping changes introduced by the 27th Amendment in relation to Article 243 of the...

15 Nov 2025 11:40 PM IST

Bharat Bhushan | Bihar Ballot Shock: Power Recast, Perceptions Jolted

Bharat Bhushan | Bihar Ballot Shock: Power Recast, Perceptions Jolted

Although Rahul Gandhi travelled 1,300 km in his “Vote Adhikar Yatra”, covering 25 districts and 110 constituencies, the...

15 Nov 2025 11:16 PM IST

Arunima Mazumdar | What I Carried With Me On My Solo Berlin Trip

Arunima Mazumdar | What I Carried With Me On My Solo Berlin Trip

If there’s one thing that travel has taught me, it is that experiencing a new city or country will always rest on where...

15 Nov 2025 11:01 PM IST