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Swerving to Solitude: Letters to Mama by Keki N. Daruwalla Simon and Schuster India, Rs 499.

Emergency, scrutinised through the female gaze

It is too easy to just set it in the Emergency or in India and the world of the 1970s.

15 Sept 2019 1:32 AM IST

Senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani pays his last respects to his father Ram Jethmalani during his cremation at Lodhi Road Crematorium in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Eminent jurist leaves behind a rich legacy

Colleagues look back fondly at the storied life and near-seven-decade career of legal fraternity's controversial doyen.

9 Sept 2019 1:23 AM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Language row led to a new nation 49 yrs ago

Jinnah's toxic temper, mixed with arrogance, sowed the seeds of irreversible Bengali nationalism in the world's most...

16 Dec 2020 9:05 AM IST

RN Kao, Gentleman Spymaster, by Nitin A Gokhale Bloomsbury, Rs 599.

Super-Kao-boy' who helped liberate Bangladesh

Even the legendary Rameshwar Nath Kao couldn't quite play god at all times.

26 Jan 2020 3:03 AM IST

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut withdraws Indira Gandhi remark

Terming Mr Raut's comment as wrong, state Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat on Thursday said such remarks would not be...

17 Jan 2020 1:09 AM IST

Union home minister Amit Shah (PTI)

BJP and Congress trade barbs over Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi

The Congress hit back saying that an undeclared Emergency has been imposed in the country by the BJP.

26 Jun 2020 7:21 AM IST

Praveen Davar | 1971 War: How India's foreign policy was key to Dhaka...

In fact, Kissinger warned India on behalf of President Richard Nixon that India shouldn't even think of attacking...

20 Oct 2021 1:49 AM IST

If Rahul Gandhi is going to be our Prime Minister one day, he needs to learn how to handle awkward situations, in particular those connected to his familys past. (Photo: PTI)

Karan Thapar | Of Rahul, Indira and the mistake' of Emergency

Indira Gandhi didn't think the Emergency was a mistake and she certainly didn't apologise for it

19 March 2021 4:45 AM IST

Now, the cases heard by the Supreme Court have anywhere between two and 30 parties. Who decides who will be unmuted? (PTI)

Karan Thapar | Sedition: Time for SC to enforce its own rulings

96 per cent of sedition cases for criticising politicians and governments over the last decade were registered after...

11 Jun 2021 12:11 AM IST

UP CM Yogi Adityanath. (PTI)

AA Edit | Pushing two-child policy: Can it ramp up growth?

According to the last population census (2011), the rate of growth of population among Muslims was higher than the...

14 July 2021 12:30 AM IST

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat (PTI)

Saeed Naqvi | RSS' Bhagwat and Muslims: Recalling Bhaurao Deoras'...

Muslims, traditionally a Congress vote bank, began to feel uncomfortable with the Congress. There was a reason

10 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

Supreme Court (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The hidden politics behind Supreme Court's...

On the face of it, the collegium system is indeed untenable in principle in a democratic system. But it is not a simple...

7 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST