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Bhopinder Singh | UN’s journey: From Purpose To Pageantry

Bhopinder Singh | UN’s journey: From Purpose To Pageantry

The colonial empires were cracking, newly independent African and Asian states were entering the Assembly, and...

2 Oct 2026 1:46 AM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | EC Dysfunctional Or Fit For A Fractured Polity?

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | EC Dysfunctional Or Fit For A Fractured Polity?

To whom is the ECI accountable? It is accountable to the government which appointed them and to Parliament whose...

2 Oct 2026 1:18 AM IST

John J. Kennedy | Flexibility on Paper: NEP 2020’s Hidden Hurdles to Student Mobility

John J. Kennedy | Flexibility on Paper: NEP 2020’s Hidden Hurdles to...

ABC has expanded rapidly, but data on students actually moving credits between institutions remain limited

30 Sept 2026 9:26 PM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | Why ECs Too Are To Blame for India’s Worst Electoral Crisis

Shikha Mukerjee | Why ECs Too Are To Blame for India’s Worst Electoral...

Large-scale deletions and appeals have intensified scrutiny of the Election Commission’s process

30 Sept 2026 8:49 PM IST

Anil Tyagi | The Messy Tango Of EC’s ‘Three Musketeers’

Anil Tyagi | The Messy Tango Of EC’s ‘Three Musketeers’

Gyanesh Kumar, a 1988-batch IAS officer from the Kerala cadre, entered the Home ministry’s Kashmir division in 2016 when...

29 Sept 2026 9:42 PM IST

K C Singh | US-China Thaw: Pomp, Pander; India Frozen Out

K C Singh | US-China Thaw: Pomp, Pander; India Frozen Out

Both sides agreed to discuss the future of artificial intelligence or AI. There is consensus that the summit was more...

29 Sept 2026 8:49 PM IST

Aakar Patel | If It Ain’t Broke, Break It: How We Ruined India We Built Over Decades

Aakar Patel | If It Ain’t Broke, Break It: How We Ruined India We...

In 2016, crony capitalism accounted for three per cent of India’s GDP. In 2023, the last year in which this was...

28 Sept 2026 10:01 PM IST

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | ABVP’s Dusu Win Isn’t End Of Student Storm

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | ABVP’s Dusu Win Isn’t End Of Student Storm

The ABVP’s electoral success in one of north India’s major university campus, however, has given an opportunity to the...

28 Sept 2026 9:16 PM IST

Pradeep C. Nair | Let Manipur, Our Sporting Capital, Finally Find Peace

Pradeep C. Nair | Let Manipur, Our Sporting Capital, Finally Find...

Yet conflict is only one part of Manipur’s story. The state has given India a remarkable cultural inheritance: Sagol...

27 Sept 2026 9:48 PM IST

Sanjaya Baru | Managing US, China In An Rising Bi-multipolar World

Sanjaya Baru | Managing US, China In An Rising Bi-multipolar World

President Trump was forthright when he spoke of an idea that had first been proposed by an American scholar, Fred...

27 Sept 2026 9:16 PM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Spice, Spite And Sharing, The New Retirement Dream

Ranjona Banerji | Spice, Spite And Sharing, The New Retirement Dream

The first take is that this is, in India at least, a change in the family dynamic and a step away from traditional ideas...

26 Sept 2026 9:19 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | No Work, No Vote: The Power Voters Must Use

Pavan K. Varma | No Work, No Vote: The Power Voters Must Use

Mr Scindia is a long-standing friend of mine, a responsive public servant, and a competent minister. This incident is,...

26 Sept 2026 8:43 PM IST