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Bharat Bhushan| Stalled J&K Statehood: Engineered Instability

Bharat Bhushan| Stalled J&K Statehood: Engineered Instability

Karl Marx in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte observed that man makes history not “out of the whole cloth” but...

3 Nov 2025 7:26 PM IST

John J. Kennedy | Why Our Schools Need To Start Sex Education Sooner, Rather Than Later

John J. Kennedy | Why Our Schools Need To Start Sex Education Sooner,...

In 2009, a parliamentary committee led by M. Venkaiah Naidu even declared that sex education “pollutes young minds”

2 Nov 2025 10:25 PM IST

Manish Tewari | Global Shift In Mediation: Why West Can’t Call Shots

Manish Tewari | Global Shift In Mediation: Why West Can’t Call Shots

Today, a radical shift has occurred; European and Western actors are increasingly marginalised, while mediators are...

2 Nov 2025 9:50 PM IST

Shashi Warrier | You, I and AI In This Beautiful World

Shashi Warrier | You, I and AI In This Beautiful World

We had both become old and staid and I hoped he wouldn’t reminisce too much about the old days because Prita didn’t know...

2 Nov 2025 1:12 AM IST

K.C. Singh | Trump-Xi Interim Truce Narrows Strategic Space

K.C. Singh | Trump-Xi Interim Truce Narrows Strategic Space

The other one was the long-awaited meeting of the Chinese and US Presidents, which took place at an airbase near South...

2 Nov 2025 1:01 AM IST

Anita Anand | Three Children For Hindu Families? Women Must Say ‘No’ to RSS’ Call

Anita Anand | Three Children For Hindu Families? Women Must Say ‘No’...

The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in 1950 was 5.7 live births per woman. In 2025, this figure has decreased to 1.9 live...

2 Nov 2025 12:53 AM IST

Shobhaa De | Get Ready To Meet Our desi bhooths… It’s Halloween!

Shobhaa De | Get Ready To Meet Our desi bhooths… It’s Halloween!

Good question. I recall the first ever Halloween society party which I attended in Mumbai around thirty years ago. It...

31 Oct 2025 11:21 PM IST

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Will UK Investigate And Crack Down On Pak ‘Mirpuri’ Link To Grooming Gangs? | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Will UK Investigate And Crack Down On Pak...

Then there’s Elon the lone Musketeer who presumes that because he has stacks of dollars, made on the backs of and...

31 Oct 2025 9:43 PM IST

Patralekha Chatterjee | Missing AQI data: Optics Trump India’s Outcomes

Patralekha Chatterjee | Missing AQI data: Optics Trump India’s...

The air is abuzz with talk of cloud seeding and artificial rain. The BJP-led Delhi government is promoting it, echoing a...

31 Oct 2025 12:01 AM IST

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Sardar Patel, BJP and Idea of India: The Ideological & Moral Gulf Is Wide

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Sardar Patel, BJP and Idea of India: The...

Mr Singh praised Nehru as “Rashtra Purush”, saying the first PM led the country at a critical juncture and gave a new...

30 Oct 2025 11:47 PM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | No End to Confusion as Pan-India SIR Rolls Out

Shikha Mukerjee | No End to Confusion as Pan-India SIR Rolls Out

The start of the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls to “purify” the voter lists to “strengthen democracy” has...

30 Oct 2025 12:02 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Queries Raised as Telangana Officer Seeks to Bow Out Before End of Term

Dilip Cherian | Queries Raised as Telangana Officer Seeks to Bow Out...

Syed Ali Murtaza Rizvi’s decision to hang up his boots eight years ahead of time has clearly rattled the Telangana...

29 Oct 2025 6:50 PM IST