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People clap and clang utensils as a gesture to show gratitude to the medical practitioners fighting the coronavirus in Bikaner, Rajasthan on March 22, 2020. PM Modi proposed a Janta curfew between 7 am and 9 pm as part of social distancing to check the spread of the deadly virus. (PTI)

AA Edit: Playing to the gallery amid pandemic

Was this yet another excuse to reshape India into an obedient population?

24 March 2020 6:37 AM IST

The scene outside the Tihar jail at dawn when the rape convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case were hanged.

AA Edit: Nirbhaya hangings were nothing to gloat about

Reactions from either side of the ideological divide were bereft of sobriety

21 March 2020 12:35 AM IST

Modi speaks and a huge majority of over a billion follow.

AA Edit: Shot off the citizen's shoulder, PM's salvo finds the target

When Modi appeals, citizens listen, as they did when they stood patiently in queues outside ATMs

21 March 2020 12:26 AM IST

This is a breach of the right to privacy.

AA Edit: Why does the government need cell phone data now?

The directive to telecom operators to provide CDRs of all mobile phone users in the country raises suspicions of...

20 March 2020 2:31 PM IST

People wearing protective masks in to protect against the coronavirus pandemic walk along the Ramlala market in Ayodhya on March 14, 2020. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath is planning to hold a massive congregation of religious seers on the occasion of Ram Navami at Ayodhya from March 25 to April 2 despite the threat of the coronavirus (Covid-19). (PTI)

AA Edit: Ram Navami meeting at Ayodhya is an invitation to disaster

And Narendra Modi is having to choose between the holy men at the core of his constituency and his responsibilities as...

20 March 2020 12:42 PM IST

In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, the then chief justice of India justice Ranjan Gogoi seen during the 18th late Dharamnath Prasad Kohli memorial lecture organised by the CBI in New Delhi. President Ram Nath Kovind nominated Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha on March 16, 2020. (PTI)

AA EDIT: Gogoi's RS nomination sends wrong signal

Justice Gogoi had a destructive influence as a strongman judge

18 March 2020 12:01 AM IST

Sanjay Manjrekar

AA EDIT: Bring back Sanjay Manjrekar

As an individual, he has every right to hold an opinion on public issues

18 March 2020 12:01 AM IST

Madhya Pradesh governor Lalji Tandon and chief minister Kamal Nath arrive for the budget session of the state Assembly in Bhopal on March 16, 2020. (PTI)

AA EDIT: Can the BJP topple Kamal Nath?

The legislature belongs to the people's reps and is run by the speaker, not the governor

17 March 2020 9:29 AM IST

A medical worker stores medical samples of patients at a coronavirus testing lab. (AFP)

AA EDIT: India must do much more on coronavirus testing

We still have no protocol on compulsorily testing people with symptoms

17 March 2020 9:01 AM IST

AA Edit: End this rage against science

AA Edit: End this rage against science

There may be some amazing hidden qualities in gau mutra but it cannot be used as a vaccine against Covid-19

16 March 2020 12:48 PM IST

National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah with his wife Mollie Abdullah (left) and daughter Safiya Abdullah (right) speaks to the media after his detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA) was revoked by the Jammu & Kashmir administration on March 13, 2020. (PTI)

AA EDIT: Now that Farooq Abdullah is 'free', will Kashmir be back to...

Dr Abdullah's release yields the surmise that the Narendra Modi government has just had an attack of realism

16 March 2020 12:15 PM IST

The departure of Jyotiraditya Scindia from the Congress is the latest setback the opposition party has suffered due to its imprudent leadership.

Jyotiraditya Scindia jumps ship

The Congress leadership has been smug in its belief that a resourceful Kamal Nath would manage things all on his own

10 March 2020 11:31 PM IST