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Dear Shri Devendra Fadnavis Ji, You may be happy that the Freedom of Religion Bill has come into force in Maharashtra. But there is an irony you may...
The Reserve Bank of India recently delivered a small but revealing lesson in economic policymaking. On 5 August, RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra was...
Five days before three tribal girls died of snakebite in a residential school in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, the Devendra Fadnavis government...
The 25th anniversary of the 11 September attacks will soon be upon us. Americans will mourn, taking time off to complain about high petrol prices...
Wrap your mind around this: over the three phases of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls in India, we have seen the deletion...
One doesn't eat out often, partly because I haven't yet received my last six DA instalments, but mainly because I can never find parking in...
On the morning of 26 August, the Himalaya delivered another warning. A cascade of geological triggers — their exact sequence still a subject of...
Telangana is undergoing one of the largest voter-verification exercises in its history. Under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), 60,50,918...
When India placed the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance after the Pahalgam terror attack of April 2025, the decision was presented by the Modi...
A journey of approximately 47 km from Pari Chowk to Kashmere Gate on a sleeper bus one rainy, dark night ended in a crime that once again raises...
The Narendra Modi government has spent considerable political capital projecting India as an emerging Vishwaguru — a global teacher, a...
The recent Gen Z and Gen Alpha protests have put the spotlight on India’s broken education system. Just two bits of data give a sense. Education in...
The joint family was one of the better constituents and binding blocks of Indian society for centuries. Consisting of three or four generations living...
Bangladesh has not yet taken a firm decision to join the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, but its government is publicly advertising its interest...
Dear Shri Harish Salve Ji, I usually do not watch television interviews. What prompted me to watch the interview you gave Arnab Goswami of Republic TV...
A foreign outlet interviewed me this week and at the end of it, after we had wrapped up, the interviewer said he was surprised. He said he did not...
National security advisor Ajit Doval’s visit to Beijing to hold ‘boundary talks’ with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi is diplomatic groundwork...
On 25 August, RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat landed in New York City. Later that week, he was scheduled to deliver the keynote address at a Madison Square...
Sugar has suddenly become an unlikely inflation story. Retail sugar prices, which averaged Rs 48 a kilo on 20 July, had climbed to Rs 56 on 20 August....
Nepal’s latest disaster is a grim warning. A sudden, deadly flood along the Nepal-Tibet border that claimed hundreds of lives is not just another...
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has opened a fresh debate in Bengal by seeking to influence how Durga Puja should be celebrated. At a discussion in...
At a women-only edition of his 'Chhatron Ki Goonj' outreach in Pune on Saturday, 22 August, Rahul Gandhi delivered one of the most...
For months, Bangladesh and India had been inching toward what diplomats like to call a reset: the careful reopening of a relationship that had been...
I first held Jawaharlal Nehru’s hand as a nine-year-old when he gave me a prize — a walkie-talkie doll — for my story in Shankar’s Weekly, the...
In nine months from now, the much-awaited and long-delayed Census exercise will have completed a countrywide population enumeration. Beginning 1...
Over the past three weeks, schoolchildren have walked out of their classrooms, marched to government offices, locked school gates, sat on roads and...
It may sound like a lofty claim. But my experience as a primary school teacher has taught me that teaching is not just another occupation. "A...
Headline from this week: 'Pune Police withdraws conversion law provisions from 2 cases after officials find Act not in force yet.' Our...
It is now certain that the proposed visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to Delhi for a one-on-one meeting with Narendra Modi is off the...
In his Independence Day address from the ramparts of Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an announcement that the government would use...
A new Amnesty International investigation has blown the lid on the Indian government’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. The report titled ‘Made in...
For most of India's middle class, the E20 debate seemed like a car problem. Would their five-year-old hatchback run on petrol blended with 20...
A Truth Social post on 18 August, sent out in the name of US President Trump, was largely ignored in the US but received wide traction in India for...
Separate incidents of extreme violence in West Bengal in recent weeks have resulted in the death of a young man from Kerala who was lynched by a mob,...
It has been a truly torrid summer — and not just because of the unprecedented heatwave. Britain's political climate, too, has hotted up, with...
For decades, Israel’s greatest strategic asset was not its army, nuclear capability or intelligence services. It was the extraordinary political...
In recent days, a word has been restored to the vocabulary of Indian politics. That word is ‘resistance’. Whether resistance should be rendered in...
Where there is power, there is resistance…Resistance has no single locus, no one great refusal. [It] is…dispersed across society, appearing...
The Tricolour can hold its head high this year, despite the misfortune of its unfurling at the Red Fort by a man who does not deserve to hold it. It...
Independence is linked to freedom and is a meaningless word without it. A few years ago, I had surveyed the state of freedom in India as the world saw...
A mature democracy stays alive through informed civic participation, freedom of thought and respect for dissent. Resistance, therefore, is not an...
It was on expected lines. The takeaway from the Independence Day address by the prime minister: sab changa si. His government is in control and all...
Perhaps the most significant achievement of the recent Gen Z protest in Delhi is the breach it has opened in the climate of fear and submission....
The writing has been on the wall for quite some time, for all to see except perhaps the acolytes of the NDA government. India's falling...
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant has said his controversial remarks likening some young people to "cockroaches" were "misquoted"...
The US-Iran war has brought unending misery. The dust has barely settled, yet the conflict continues to stir new trouble. The US believes the world...
Saudi Arabia has spent decades preparing for a confrontation with Iran. It has purchased some of the world’s most advanced weapons from the West,...
A wit wryly defined democracy as ‘a rumour not yet disproved’. In our time, that’s indeed the case — in Chile, Russia, Nigeria, Egypt, the US,...
There was a remarkable exchange in the Delhi High Court this week. The government was asked why it was not considering shutting down the Jantar Mantar...
Most Respected Swamiji, May I seek your kind permission to apply for the post of Chief Executive Officer of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra?...
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