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Patralekha Chatterjee | Tit for tat' is an attack on rule of law &...

Mr Khattar does not stop with advocating 'tit for tat' as a strategy

7 Oct 2021 1:05 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Why democracy often turns ugly: Prejudice & hate as...

The byelection for a Member of Parliament in the Yorkshire constituency of Batley was a paradigm of this ugliness

3 July 2021 12:20 AM IST

Gangotri is melting: Will Indians respond with worldâ€™s largest â€˜XRâ€™?

Gangotri is melting: Will Indians respond with worldâ€™s largest...

Hundreds of them have been arrested by the police who are, unlike the police forces of Hong Kong, been benign but firm.

12 Oct 2019 1:02 AM IST

Chess game democracy in the UK?

Chess game democracy in the UK?

The question of democracy and how it should work is the large pachydermous presence in Britain's spaces.

29 Sept 2018 1:51 AM IST

A profound crisis of free market capitalism, which has been channeled by angry rightist populists like US President Donald Trump, is hence central to the worsening image of democracy. (Photo: AP)

Can democracy still deliver in a restless world?

Extreme economic inequality and insecurity for the have-nots have compounded the anger against the unaccountable...

18 Sept 2018 12:27 AM IST

BJP chief Amit Shah calls on Sidharoodha Math seer in Hubballi on Thursday. (Photo:KPN)

Hubballi: Congress trying to throttle democracy, says Amit Shah

The Congress is hatching a conspiracy to divide society on the basis of caste in Karnataka after making similar attempts...

13 April 2018 3:26 AM IST

Actors Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan during a meeting in Chennai. (Photo: Asian Age/File)

3 anchors of democracy have lost their power

Science provides a generalised model of truth, objectivity, fairness and the need for rituals of experiment to verify...

12 March 2018 12:47 AM IST

Two events in Gujarat polls disturbed the aesthetics of elections. First came the Macwan affair and second the handling of Congress leader Rahul Gandhis visit to the Somnath Temple.

Dividing Lines: When religion trumps citizenship

Two events in Gujarat polls disturbed the aesthetics of elections.

10 Dec 2017 6:29 AM IST

Home Minister Rajnath Singh Dineshwar Sharma will initiate the sustained dialogue to understand legitimate aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo: ANI)

Truth , the first step to restoring J&K's dignity

The conference was an appeal to listening and the vital role that listening as an art and a ritual plays in a...

29 Oct 2017 6:20 AM IST

Dividing Lines: How India normalises violence

Dividing Lines: How India normalises' violence

Democracy in India is caught in the impasse between sheer inventiveness and frequency of violence and the emptiness of...

14 Sept 2017 4:10 AM IST

Cabbages & Kings: Decoding democracy

Cabbages & Kings: Decoding democracy

“A friend, some wine, the finest things in lifeThe longing that her kisses were as rifeAs the wounds with which...

12 Dec 2015 6:26 AM IST

Majority-o-cracy

Majority-o-cracy

Ever since the Velvet Revolution and the Arab Spring, democracy has become a global epidemic. All regimes want to be...

27 Aug 2015 11:26 AM IST