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Shikha Mukerjee | Socialist, Secular… or Not? Tussles over Constitution

Shikha Mukerjee | Socialist, Secular… or Not? Tussles...

The RSS may be obsessed with retro and restoring the past; the BJP can mimic the sentiments of its parent organisation....

30 Jun 2025 10:46 PM IST

Fabric of Progress - A Decade of Innovation, Inclusion and Identity

Fabric of Progress - A Decade of Innovation, Inclusion and Identity

This is not revival. It is reinvention. To build a Viksit Bharat by 2047, the foundations must reach beyond concrete and...

30 Jun 2025 12:42 PM IST

Syed Ata Hasnain | Halting ‘Rising Lion’: The Limits of US Involvement

Syed Ata Hasnain | Halting ‘Rising Lion’: The Limits of US Involvement

Fear of chaos, new wars, and China threat made the US pull back from Iran strike plan

29 Jun 2025 10:44 PM IST

K.J. Jacob | Balancing Rights & Freedom for All: Why They Cannot Be Undermined…

K.J. Jacob | Balancing Rights & Freedom for All: Why They Cannot Be...

India’s top court defends free speech, warns states to uphold law over threats and sentiments

29 Jun 2025 10:22 PM IST

Saeed Naqvi | Khamenei has no links with India; but Khomeini did, with Barabanki…

Saeed Naqvi | Khamenei has no links with India; but Khomeini did, with...

An implausible story is doing the social media rounds, which has its origins in an extraordinary initiative then...

28 Jun 2025 9:21 PM IST

What Does Your Home Taste Like?

What Does Your Home Taste Like?

My earliest and most enduring memory of a meal is from my late maternal grandmother's kitchen in small-town Assam, young...

28 Jun 2025 9:15 PM IST

Shobhaa De | The 12-day hoax that we fell for, across the world

Shobhaa De | The 12-day hoax that we fell for, across the world

Phew! That was close! Whether or not the “12-Day War” was an elaborate hoax pulled on the watching world by a bunch...

28 Jun 2025 2:41 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | ‘Assisted Dying’; Abortion May Be Easier in UK: Why I’m Against This…

Farrukh Dhondy | ‘Assisted Dying’; Abortion May Be Easier in UK: Why...

Some, epic and modern, write about death. Dylan Thomas says “rage, rage against the dying of the light”. Was that futile...

28 Jun 2025 2:23 AM IST

India Needs Fresh Efforts To Mend Ties With China

India Needs Fresh Efforts To Mend Ties With China

The double standard in what Pakistan, with China’s “iron-clad backing”, was attempting to do was so obvious as to make...

28 Jun 2025 12:59 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | Migrants And Voting: EC’s ‘stealth ops’ Start In Bihar

Shikha Mukerjee | Migrants And Voting: EC’s ‘stealth ops’ Start In...

The Election Commission, for starters. If this sounds like a party game, perish the thought

27 Jun 2025 12:35 AM IST

Pradeep C. Nair | Growing Calls For Manipur peace; as Meiteis, Kukis Hold Delhi Talks

Pradeep C. Nair | Growing Calls For Manipur peace; as Meiteis, Kukis...

It has been a little over two years since the Manipur violence began in May 2023

27 Jun 2025 12:24 AM IST

Cdr Kalesh Mohanan | Naval Hydrographic Dept Charts Future Of India’s Security, Maritime Safety

Cdr Kalesh Mohanan | Naval Hydrographic Dept Charts Future Of India’s...

Indian Navy’s hydrographic capability has evolved from modest beginnings into a robust technologically-advanced arm of...

26 Jun 2025 12:05 AM IST