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Pavan K. Varma | India’s Democracy No Match To Nepalese Fragile GovernanceColumnists
Pavan K. Varma | India’s Democracy No Match To Nepalese Fragile...

In recent years, Indian public discourse has been increasingly hijacked by a troubling binary: Either one is an...

28 Sept 2025 12:03 AM IST

Shreya Sen-Handley | Can A Storm Herald The Good Winds Of Change?Columnists
Shreya Sen-Handley | Can A Storm Herald The Good Winds Of Change?

Britain, after all, is painfully conservative with monikers. Royal names are particular favourites, with ‘George’...

27 Sept 2025 11:20 PM IST

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Looking Back At Arundhati Roy’s Role In The Saga of Bandit Queen | Farrukh DhondyColumnists
OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Looking Back At Arundhati Roy’s Role In The...

Soon after, Michael Grade, Channel 4’s boss, called me to his office and showed me a petition signed by Ms Roy and about...

27 Sept 2025 12:28 AM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Trump Taking US Towards A New Race-cum-civil war?Columnists
Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Trump Taking US Towards A New Race-cum-civil...

The foot soldiers of the Trump-inspired “Make America Great Again” movement, almost all of whom hold extreme rightist...

27 Sept 2025 12:13 AM IST

K.C. Singh | Trump Assaults UN, Targets All, Fuels Global UncertaintyColumnists
K.C. Singh | Trump Assaults UN, Targets All, Fuels Global Uncertainty

President Trump’s 56-minute address was meandering, critical of the dysfunctional UN escalator and teleprompter, besides...

26 Sept 2025 12:40 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Rajesh Agrawal Leading India’s High-stakes Trade Talks With USColumnists
Dilip Cherian | Rajesh Agrawal Leading India’s High-stakes Trade ...

Citing India's imports of oil from Russia, the US imposed 50 per cent tariffs on Indian goods and is now seeking greater...

26 Sept 2025 12:27 AM IST

Anusuya Mohanty Chatterjee | How I Got Digitally Disenfranchised in Our DemocracyColumnists
Anusuya Mohanty Chatterjee | How I Got Digitally Disenfranchised in...

While we, as citizens, can link bank accounts, ration cards, and even vaccination certificates to Aadhaar, the system...

24 Sept 2025 9:50 PM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Trump Targets India: End to the Biggest Brain Drain?Columnists
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Trump Targets India: End to the Biggest Brain...

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24 Sept 2025 9:38 PM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Trump’s H-1B Shock Jolt To Indian Techie DreamsColumnists
Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Trump’s H-1B Shock Jolt To Indian Techie Dreams

Of the 1.5 million Indian engineers graduating every year, only a miniscule 0.25 per cent can avail of this opportunity...

23 Sept 2025 11:13 PM IST

Ruchira Gupta | Lesson of Nepal’s Gen Z Revolt: Can A Small Democracy Be Kept ‘Clean’?Columnists
Ruchira Gupta | Lesson of Nepal’s Gen Z Revolt: Can A Small Democracy...

What followed was both familiar and new. Familiar, as students again poured into the streets, claiming civic space that...

23 Sept 2025 11:00 PM IST

Aakar Patel | Why, In The RSS’ View, The Nation Must Be Governed By ‘Hindu Thought’Columnists
Aakar Patel | Why, In The RSS’ View, The Nation Must Be Governed By...

Golwalkar says the RSS called itself the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and not the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh. This was...

22 Sept 2025 11:15 PM IST

Bharat Bhushan | Was Yasin Malik Used And Betrayed By Indian State?Columnists
Bharat Bhushan | Was Yasin Malik Used And Betrayed By Indian State?

The National Investigative Agency (NIA) has appealed in the Delhi high court to convert Malik’s life sentence to the...

22 Sept 2025 10:42 PM IST

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