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Aakar Patel | Modi’s ‘Personal’ Diplomacy Hasn’t Worked… Can We Fix the Problem?

Aakar Patel | Modi’s ‘Personal’ Diplomacy Hasn’t Worked… Can We Fix...

Close ties and grand gestures didn’t protect India’s interests

2 Sept 2025 12:47 AM IST

Sunil Gatade | Can Modi Find ‘New Ideas’ To Give BJP Momentum?

Sunil Gatade | Can Modi Find ‘New Ideas’ To Give BJP Momentum?

Ideas make a man, and here Narendra Modi is not moving an inch beyond his oft-repeated card of communal polarisation....

31 Aug 2025 9:26 PM IST

Chandrajit Banerjee | What We Should Do To Make India More Competitive: A Reform Roadmap

Chandrajit Banerjee | What We Should Do To Make India More...

The recently released CII report on “Policies for a Competitive India” lays down more than 250 actionable...

31 Aug 2025 9:13 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | PM’s Ghuspetiya Outrage: Isn’t It Too Little, Too Late?

Pavan K. Varma | PM’s Ghuspetiya Outrage: Isn’t It Too Little, Too...

The Election Commission of India (EC) made a general statement that there are “large numbers of people from Nepal,...

30 Aug 2025 9:38 PM IST

Anita Katyal | Is BJP Rattled By Opp.’s Voter Rally? Big Fuss Over Film on Gopal Pantha

Anita Katyal | Is BJP Rattled By Opp.’s Voter Rally? Big Fuss Over...

Right wingers in India were particularly ecstatic when Donald Trump took over the US Presidency for a second time early...

30 Aug 2025 9:25 PM IST

Shreya Sen-Handley | Why Celebrate B’days Well Into Our Dotage

Shreya Sen-Handley | Why Celebrate B’days Well Into Our Dotage

In the case of my eldest child who pooped panic-green Meconium on his way out, when my body started fighting the alien...

30 Aug 2025 8:22 PM IST

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Of Robert Clive, The Spice Trade And Famine During The British Raj In India | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Of Robert Clive, The Spice Trade And Famine...

Of course, the bronze statue in Whitehall is a monument to the view of British colonial history as a great civilising...

29 Aug 2025 10:21 PM IST

REFLECTIONS | Will Trump’s Man In Delhi Help India Mend Fences? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | Will Trump’s Man In Delhi Help India Mend Fences? |...

India must also beware of the sleight of hand practised by some American diplomats when Jawaharlal Nehru was clamouring...

29 Aug 2025 10:06 PM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | 30 Days That Shook World: Games With Constitution

Shikha Mukerjee | 30 Days That Shook World: Games With Constitution

Two basic questions arise from introduction of a constitutional amendment that could be a belated effort to legislate on...

28 Aug 2025 11:15 PM IST

Dilip Cherian | Delhi Gets a New Top Cop, Right On Cue

Dilip Cherian | Delhi Gets a New Top Cop, Right On Cue

Satish Golcha, a 1992-batch IPS officer, walked into the commissioner’s office on August 21, a day after chief minister...

28 Aug 2025 11:06 PM IST

M.P. Nathanael | Targeting of Nuns Shows Vital Need to protect Christians from Persecution

M.P. Nathanael | Targeting of Nuns Shows Vital Need to protect...

The false propaganda by fundamentalist elements that Christians are out to convert others is gaining ground

27 Aug 2025 7:06 AM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | India, Russia and China: Collaborators or Rivals?

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | India, Russia and China: Collaborators or Rivals?

China feels that the relationship with India should not be determined solely by the disagreements on border issues

27 Aug 2025 7:04 AM IST