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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: Twitter | PMO India)

The perils of Aadhaar: Modi & Didi eye 2019

Mamata Banerjee has inserted herself into the political space that Mr Modi created by his digitally created visions of a...

1 Nov 2017 2:58 AM IST

Aligarh Muslim University. (Photo: File)

The boy and the country

As for Sir Syed and Claude Martin, they represented colonialism's positive moments but only in the interest of...

1 Nov 2017 2:50 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, shake hands prior to their luncheon talks, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

A stranglehold broken: Asian geopolitics shifts

India was forced to ship the biscuits through a long and circuitous route via Bandar Abbas port in Iran.

31 Oct 2017 12:13 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping (Photo: AP)

Will China's dream' be a nightmare for India?

From the Indian perspective, the prominence given to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the deliberations is...

30 Oct 2017 12:07 AM IST

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan. (Photo: AP)

The coup trap in Pakistan

The good thing about the current silliness is that we don't have to be radically hypothetical.

30 Oct 2017 12:00 AM IST

Home Minister Rajnath Singh said there will be a solution soon on Doklam standoff. (Photo: PTI)

Truth , the first step to restoring J&K's dignity

The conference was an appeal to listening and the vital role that listening as an art and a ritual plays in a...

29 Oct 2017 12:31 AM IST

Former Intelligence Bureau director Dineshwar Sharma said he would go to Kashmir in eight-to-ten days. (Photo: ANI)

A policeman posing as a postman in Kashmir

Sharma will have sustained interaction and dialogue to understand the legitimate aspirations of a wide cross-section of...

29 Oct 2017 12:30 AM IST

Jawaharlal Nehru, Indias first PM, is mentioned in the book. The book, Love in the Time of Emergency, is set during the Emergency period (1975-77) imposed by the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi.

A point to ponder: Do CMs make good PMs?

India's 12th PM and the first from the BJP, Atal Behari Vajpayee, had a distinguished career as a parliamentarian.

28 Oct 2017 12:12 AM IST

Former Intelligence Bureau director Dineshwar Sharma said he would go to Kashmir in eight-to-ten days. (Photo: ANI)

Interlocutor's first job: Start listening to J&K

The government too has made it clear that the interlocutor has been appointed to carry out a sustained dialogue.

27 Oct 2017 12:55 AM IST

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley (Photo: PTI)

Where's the big idea? FM got optics wrong

Using disinvestment proceeds to inject public finance into private companies is a great idea.

26 Oct 2017 2:21 AM IST

Why celebrate the Balfour Declaration?

The Zionist movement, headquartered in Berlin, attracted the support of only a small minority of European Jews at the...

26 Oct 2017 2:12 AM IST

Former Intelligence Bureau director Dineshwar Sharma said he would go to Kashmir in eight-to-ten days. (Photo: ANI)

Delhi's feeble steps on J&K not enough

The Congress and BJP should keep out of Kashmir politics.

25 Oct 2017 1:08 AM IST