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This is about keeping Pakistan: first, safe; second, strong; third, prosperous; and maybe eventually all three at the same time.

PTI should avoid the mistakes of past regimes

Over the decades, the challenge of properly governing Pakistan has been getting heavier by the year.

26 Oct 2018 12:17 AM IST

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee addresses the TMC Chhatra Parisad foundation day rally at Mayo Road in Kolkata on Tuesday. (Photo:Asian Age)

Is benevolent mother' Mamata's new avatar?

Identity politics, of legitimising the assertion of the majority in terms of its religion, is the BJP's most effective...

25 Oct 2018 12:34 AM IST

Electing Bolsonaro is a self-goal for Brazil

Brazil, by far the biggest country in South America, is the world's fourth largest democracy.

25 Oct 2018 12:31 AM IST

Genetic engineering of crops to make them drought resistant can protect farmer income, enhance productivity and free up land for water storage and enlarging forest cover. (Representational image)

Acclimatising India to the future

Climate change is not all pain. It is expected to improve precipitation in India by three to 12 per cent.

24 Oct 2018 2:37 AM IST

The revivalist RSS has backed the clergy although the Supreme Court has permitted all women to enter the shrine as equal citizens. (Representational image)

Secular courts should not tinker with matters of faith

What he prescribed, instead, for the dalits was what he might have reasoned with women of childbearing age in Kerala to...

24 Oct 2018 2:22 AM IST

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul more than two weeks ago, amid persistent reports he was killed inside. (Photo: AFP)

India can't ignore Saudi ethics, Jamal's killing

No healthy, productive and rewarding foreign policy can be founded on expedient pacts that are so utterly devoid of...

23 Oct 2018 12:03 AM IST

Sabarimala Temple

SC must pay heed to customs in Sabarimala

In the case of triple talaq, where a Muslim woman a citizen of India aggrieved by the practice of talaq, challenged...

22 Oct 2018 12:40 AM IST

This is about keeping Pakistan: first, safe; second, strong; third, prosperous; and maybe eventually all three at the same time.

The rights of refugees must be protected

It may understandably restrict claims to land given its scarcity, and with a view to what would be most equitable for...

22 Oct 2018 12:40 AM IST

The police booked Ashish Pandey, son of ex-BSP MLA Rakesh Pandey, for allegedly brandishing a gun at guests and threatening them in foyer of The Hyatt Regency hotel in R K Puram. (Photo: Screengrab)

Lawmakers and their law-breaking progeny

The powerful need to have their egos massaged, and the supplicants must outdo each other in the most abject display of...

21 Oct 2018 12:24 AM IST

Union minister M.J. Akbar

Murmurs in a boiling political pot

With elections around the corner, it is open season for political rivals to circulate stories and rumours about each...

21 Oct 2018 12:18 AM IST

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani (Photo: AP)

Will Taghir herald a new Afghanistan?

No representative of the Ghani government has participated in talks so far when as many as 11 members of the Taliban...

20 Oct 2018 1:14 AM IST

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul more than two weeks ago, amid persistent reports he was killed inside. (Photo: AFP)

There's a crisis of survival and human agency

More and more people around the world are waking up to the reality of the epoch that has become known as the...

20 Oct 2018 1:10 AM IST