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Shikha Mukerjee | Of Insiders and Outsiders: The Politics of Alienation

Shikha Mukerjee | Of Insiders and Outsiders: The Politics of...

Language and identity politics threaten unity and freedom of movement in India

16 July 2025 10:14 PM IST

Syed Ata Hasnain | From War To Uncertainty: Shifting Sands In Mideast

Syed Ata Hasnain | From War To Uncertainty: Shifting Sands In Mideast

The war, perhaps, could not have been elongated without full-scale American involvement, and that was never the intent...

15 July 2025 10:16 PM IST

Bhopinder Singh | NAM Reinvented? Brics Challenges Unilateralism By Trump’s America

Bhopinder Singh | NAM Reinvented? Brics Challenges Unilateralism By...

The founding fathers of NAM included Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India, as well as Josip Broz Tito, Kwame Nkrumah,...

15 July 2025 10:08 PM IST

Aakar Patel | Will Zohran’s NY Triumph Offer US Democrats A Way To Battle Trump?

Aakar Patel | Will Zohran’s NY Triumph Offer US Democrats A Way To...

The second important thing was the quality of Zohran’s campaign, which was conducted mostly on social media outlets...

14 July 2025 10:51 PM IST

Wasbir Hussain | Walking The Tightrope On Peace In Manipur

Wasbir Hussain | Walking The Tightrope On Peace In Manipur

After the MHA-initiated talks, leading Meitei civil society groups like the Coordination Committee on Manipur Integrity...

14 July 2025 10:21 PM IST

Indranil Banerjie | The Dalai Lama’s Final Call: China Faces Tibet Challenge

Indranil Banerjie | The Dalai Lama’s Final Call: China Faces Tibet...

Ruled by an ancient theological order of Buddhist monks, Tibet had no army worth its name and was quickly overrun....

13 July 2025 9:14 PM IST

Jayanta Roy Chowdhury | Turmoil in B’desh: Secular Voices Are Facing Crackdown, Economy Declining

Jayanta Roy Chowdhury | Turmoil in B’desh: Secular Voices Are Facing...

From outside, Dhaka seems calm after months of protests by students demanding the resignation of Mr Yunus’ advisers for...

13 July 2025 9:04 PM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How I Failed To Erase My Chronic Elitism

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How I Failed To Erase My Chronic Elitism

As these hug-filled love messages followed at five-second intervals, I completely lost track of what the movie was...

12 July 2025 9:07 PM IST

Manish Tewari | Why India Urgently Needs Some Governance Reforms

Manish Tewari | Why India Urgently Needs Some Governance Reforms

The government has set up two administrative commissions, the first on January 5, 1966, under the chairpersonship of...

12 July 2025 8:48 PM IST

John J. Kennedy | India’s Struggle Continues With Gender Equality: A Long Way To Go

John J. Kennedy | India’s Struggle Continues With Gender Equality: A...

While some countries inch forward, others remain stagnant or regress. India, unfortunately, falls into the latter group....

12 July 2025 8:37 PM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | If Zohran, a ‘Real Socialist’, Becomes New York’s Mayor, What’ll India Say?

Farrukh Dhondy | If Zohran, a ‘Real Socialist’, Becomes New York’s...

Have due regard For Sheherazade Who knew life and love were her rights So, she invented The Arabian Nights…” From The...

12 July 2025 12:18 AM IST

Shobhaa De | Bhelpuri politics: Who’s Asli ‘Marathi Manoos’?

Shobhaa De | Bhelpuri politics: Who’s Asli ‘Marathi Manoos’?

When in doubt, turn to Dostoevsky: “Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up.” Try...

11 July 2025 11:15 PM IST