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Anita Anand | Three Children For Hindu Families? Women Must Say ‘No’ to RSS’ Call

Anita Anand | Three Children For Hindu Families? Women Must Say ‘No’...

The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in 1950 was 5.7 live births per woman. In 2025, this figure has decreased to 1.9 live...

2 Nov 2025 12:43 AM IST

Shobhaa De | Get Ready To Meet Our desi bhooths… It’s Halloween!

Shobhaa De | Get Ready To Meet Our desi bhooths… It’s Halloween!

Good question. I recall the first ever Halloween society party which I attended in Mumbai around thirty years ago. It...

31 Oct 2025 11:21 PM IST

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Will UK Investigate And Crack Down On Pak ‘Mirpuri’ Link To Grooming Gangs? | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Will UK Investigate And Crack Down On Pak...

Then there’s Elon the lone Musketeer who presumes that because he has stacks of dollars, made on the backs of and...

31 Oct 2025 9:43 PM IST

Patralekha Chatterjee | Missing AQI data: Optics Trump India’s Outcomes

Patralekha Chatterjee | Missing AQI data: Optics Trump India’s...

The air is abuzz with talk of cloud seeding and artificial rain. The BJP-led Delhi government is promoting it, echoing a...

31 Oct 2025 12:01 AM IST

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Sardar Patel, BJP and Idea of India: The Ideological & Moral Gulf Is Wide

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Sardar Patel, BJP and Idea of India: The...

Mr Singh praised Nehru as “Rashtra Purush”, saying the first PM led the country at a critical juncture and gave a new...

30 Oct 2025 11:47 PM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | No End to Confusion as Pan-India SIR Rolls Out

Shikha Mukerjee | No End to Confusion as Pan-India SIR Rolls Out

What the EC and CEC Gyanesh Kumar appear to be ignorant about is that the “purification” process directed against...

30 Oct 2025 12:02 AM IST

Syed Ali Murtaza Rizvi. (Image: http://tsmsidc.telangana.gov.in)

Dilip Cherian | Queries Raised as Telangana Officer Seeks to Bow Out...

In Rizvi’s case, “enough” seems to have come after four transfers in just two years, an administrative relay race that...

29 Oct 2025 6:48 PM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | COP30: Can We Samba To A Greener Global Future?

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | COP30: Can We Samba To A Greener Global Future?

The world has not been hopelessly profligate. The global annual growth rate of carbon emissions reduced by 22 per cent...

28 Oct 2025 10:13 PM IST

Bhopinder Singh | Islamabad Seems To Be Losing The Plot As War Looms On Afghan Border

Bhopinder Singh | Islamabad Seems To Be Losing The Plot As War Looms...

Gul Bahadur is a direct descendant of Mirza Ali Khan (of the Madda Khel clan of Uthmanzai Pathans), a revered...

28 Oct 2025 9:57 PM IST

Aakar Patel | Could Mamdani Win NY Mayoral Poll, Give Politics New Focus in US?

Aakar Patel | Could Mamdani Win NY Mayoral Poll, Give Politics New...

Democratic nominee leads ahead of November 4 election after a grassroots campaign.

27 Oct 2025 9:59 PM IST

Sanjaya Baru | The Many Hyderabads That We Now Live in

Sanjaya Baru | The Many Hyderabads That We Now Live in

Once divided by the Musi, now united by diversity — Hyderabad’s story of many cities in one.

27 Oct 2025 9:39 PM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can Trump Succeed in His Pledge to Disarm Hamas?

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can Trump Succeed in His Pledge to Disarm...

Despite two years of a blistering Israeli offensive that killed over 68,000 Palestinian men, women and children, to say...

26 Oct 2025 9:29 PM IST