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Aakar Patel | South Asia needs to end communalism to ensure region can grow, develop

Aakar Patel | South Asia needs to end communalism to ensure region can...

The BJP’s Ram Madhav has written an article titled “For South Asia to grow, communalism must end”. It makes two points...

10 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Sanjaya Baru | Driving our foreign trade beyond the Trump bump

The impending return to the White House of US President-elect Donald Trump promising high tariffs has raised the alarm ...

9 Dec 2024 12:53 AM IST

Shashi Warrier | The reign of the business model

Shashi Warrier | The reign of the business model

A couple living nearby, Shobha and Vineet, both scientists, dropped in a few weeks after a visit to Varanasi on the...

8 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Don’t airbrush history, but respect context & fact too

Pavan K. Varma | Don’t airbrush history, but respect context & fact...

Recently, I spoke at the launch in Delhi of Vikram Sampath’s new magnum opus, Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore’s...

8 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST

Anita Katyal| Did Kharge send a signal to Rahul with talk about pro-people issues?

Anita Katyal| Did Kharge send a signal to Rahul with talk about...

Doing some plain speaking in his opening address at the last meeting of the Congress Working Committee, party...

8 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Of gaps in history; and a remarkable absence of graffiti in India’s big cities

Farrukh Dhondy | Of gaps in history; and a remarkable absence of...

“An ‘Aunty’ who lived in Mumbai Cultivated a romantic sigh Thinking to seduce Young men on the loose Who...

7 Dec 2024 12:00 AM IST

Syed Ata Hasnain | Women in command: Key for Army is how to adapt

Syed Ata Hasnain | Women in command: Key for Army is how to adapt

Gender issues in the Army must be seen as a constant work in progress without attaching sensitivity to them. I...

7 Dec 2024 12:00 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | A great exodus: Why are India’s tax officers calling it quits?

Dilip Cherian | A great exodus: Why are India’s tax officers calling...

India’s bureaucracy, often seen as the steel frame of governance, is experiencing a curious phenomenon — an increasing...

6 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST

Patralekha Chatterjee | Too few babies? Reset the India fertility rate debate

Patralekha Chatterjee | Too few babies? Reset the India fertility rate...

The idea of defining a woman primarily as a mother, duty bound to uphold the interests of the nation, is not new. Nor...

6 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Delhi, Dhaka need to act as B’desh Hindus face threats

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Delhi, Dhaka need to act as B’desh Hindus face...

Hindu population in Bangladesh falls sharply, with religious persecution and migration driving the decline, raising...

5 Dec 2024 12:00 AM IST

Claude Arpi | Where the world is still one family: 50 years in Bharat

Claude Arpi | Where the world is still one family: 50 years in Bharat

Fifty years is a long time. In October 1974, I left France, my country of birth. I had a dream: to settle in India to...

4 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST

Aakar Patel | As China & US in race for the top; Indians busy with battles over past

Aakar Patel | As China & US in race for the top; Indians busy with...

The stunning victory of Donald Trump has sharpened focus on America’s relationship with its only peer competitor,...

3 Dec 2024 2:09 AM IST