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Ten weeks of confrontations between police and protesters have plunged Hong Kong into turmoil, and present the biggest popular challenge to Chinese President Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012. (Photo: AP)

'Cease anger with love': Hong Kong tycoon's message on protests

Protests began as opposition to now-suspended extradition bill and have swelled into wider calls for democracy.

16 Aug 2019 3:38 PM IST

Sitaram Yechury

Safeguarding 'fundamentals' of country essential: Yechury

'We must resolve to safeguard the fundamentals of our Republic secular democracy, federalism and social justice,' he...

15 Aug 2019 10:26 AM IST

A straight question: what do you think of shutting down an entire state and detaining former Chief Ministers before taking a fateful decision that affects that state and its peoples? What if it was our Karnataka next and not their Kashmir now? he said. (Photo: PTI)

'Not democracy but authoritarianism': Historian Ramachandra Guha on...

The Central government revoked Article 370 which gave special status to J&K.

5 Aug 2019 6:31 PM IST

Protesters surround banners that read: Those charge to the street on today is brave!, center top, and Release all the detainees! during a sit-in rally at the arrival hall of the Hong Kong International airport on Monday. (Photo: AP)

Hong Kong protesters aim to 'stress test' airport

The withdrawal was one of the protesters' key demands and both she and Beijing had previously refused to budge on the...

7 Sept 2019 12:30 PM IST

I spoke to Nitish Kumar (Bihar Chief Minister), he also said that he would not allow the National Register of Citizens (NRC), Mamata Banerjee said. (Photo: ANI)

Don't hype Chandrayaan-2 to divert attention from economic distress:...

She also criticised the NRC process which was heavily touted by the ruling party during 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

6 Sept 2019 4:52 PM IST

Adolf Hitler. (Photo: AFP)

If courts are vigilant, democracy will be safe

Almost any crime that could be described as political opposition to the Nazi regime ended up before them.

1 Sept 2019 12:28 AM IST

Mamata Banerjee (Photo: PTI)

Pluralist vs polarised grassroots democracy

Citizenship as a basic identity has had the effect of bringing the politics down to earth.

21 Jan 2020 4:37 AM IST

Ektaa Kapoor has long argued that her wildly popular soaps are not fantasy but reality with the odd cobra thrown in.

The Indian dictionary of acceptable phrases

We have reached the stage in our democracy where a lamp is called a chair, a stool a shirt and a tubelight the sun.

10 Jan 2020 12:14 AM IST

Armed policemen man a checkpoint along a road in Cebu City, central Philippines. (AFP)

Authoritarian regimes are using virus to silence its critics,...

500 signatories, including more than 60 former leaders, wrote an open letter organised by Institute for Democracy and...

25 Jun 2020 3:16 PM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | In democratic parties, why dissent equals...

Respecting the right of party functionaries to speak out, without incurring punishment ought to be the norm rather than...

28 Oct 2021 1:01 AM IST

Patralekha Chatterjee | Tit for tat' is an attack on rule of law &...

Mr Khattar does not stop with advocating 'tit for tat' as a strategy

7 Oct 2021 1:10 AM IST

Aakar Patel | On Republic Day, time to reclaim our basic rights

None of the rights and liberties that the Constitution saw initially as being fundamental are present in the original...

12 Jan 2021 10:50 AM IST