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The Indian State and those who run it better realise that its a wasteful exercise to wrestle with history. (Representational Image)

AA Edit | Why wrestle with history?

The Indian right wing has always complained that the Indian Left has had a disproportionate say on academics in India

5 April 2023 12:15 AM IST

While masks, hand sanitizers, triple-boosters and wild dancing in streets do help, the need of the hour, however, is sustained, planned avoidance of other human beings. (Representational Image/AA)

AA Edit | Masks advisable as Covid could disrupt lives again

The Union government must revisit the Covid protocols and prod state governments to decide what is to be introduced now

5 April 2023 12:15 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the flagging off ceremony of Vande Bharat Express, at Rani Kamlapati Station, in Bhopal, Saturday, April 1, 2023. (PTI)

AA Edit | War on corruption is welcome

The job of the CBI has increased in scope and its principal responsibility is to make India corruption-free, Mr Modi...

5 April 2023 12:15 AM IST

In this undated image former cricketer Salim Durrani is seen with Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan and their father. Durrani, 88, passed away Sunday morning due to age-related ailments. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Adieu to cricket's Prince Charming

It was his readiness to respond to the crowd's demand for a Sixer , making it seem as if he could loft the ball out of...

4 April 2023 12:29 AM IST

Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar takes part in a press conference in Bangkok on August 17, 2022. (Jack TAYLOR / AFP)

AA Edit | Let the West criticise, India needn't be so oversensitive

We need to become more engaged with voices of dissent

4 April 2023 12:27 AM IST

Several houses, religious places and shops were gutted in Khargone as the communal violence, after an attack on a Ram Navami procession, spread to different parts of the city by late Sunday night. (Representational Image/PTI)

AA Edit | Ram Navami clashes a blot; Bengal, Bihar must act firm

Beyond such long-term politics, it is the moral responsibility of every state to ensure peace, order, harmony and...

3 April 2023 12:24 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the Khel Mahakumbh being held in Jaipur, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. (PTI)

AA Edit | Why this spectre of foreign hand'?

The image of Mr Modi that his party, the BJP, have nurtured over the years is one of a powerful leader of a confident...

3 April 2023 12:03 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the Khel Mahakumbh being held in Jaipur, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. (PTI)

AA Edit | It's up to Indians to protect our democracy, not outsiders

Leaders of democratic nations, including India, have repeatedly averred that democracy is a shared value.

1 April 2023 12:17 AM IST

Former US President Donald Trump speaks to the media while departing a polling station after voting in the US midterm elections at Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 8, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Trump makes dubious history

Mr Trump may have been charged on many counts but they will be known only after his arraignment takes place on Tuesday...

1 April 2023 12:14 AM IST

Rahul Baba baiters want to know more about his weird beard -- a question only Rahul and his barber can respond to. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Give MPs, MLAs a fair chance

There are constitutional and legal provisions to disqualify an elected member.

31 March 2023 12:29 AM IST

JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy (Photo: ANI)

AA Edit | Karnataka polls to show which way wind blowing

That the state had shown a tendency to change regimes every five years for decades may give the Congress hope.

31 March 2023 12:27 AM IST

Senior AIADMK leader R Vaithilingam and State Ministers D Jayakumar and K T Rajendra Balaji said it has been decided that the present arrangement which gave full powers in the party to Palaniswami and Panneerselvam will continue. (Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | Is AIADMK turning a new leaf?

The succession strife in the prime Opposition party had a deleterious impact on the state's politics

30 March 2023 12:29 AM IST