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Were the general elections that brought the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to power with a thumping majority after nearly 18 turbulent months free...
The immediate crisis triggered by the delimitation proposals tabled in Parliament last week may have been averted, but only just. The defeat of the...
The Gulf countries didn’t start the war. Yet they’re paying a terrible price. In battered infrastructure and the erosion of a carefully...
Those following relations between India and Bangladesh are taken aback by the Modi government’s decision to send Dinesh Trivedi, a political...
Civilisations are created by poets, writers, painters, architects, but are destroyed by politicians and their armies. We would do well to remember...
A story under this headline was reported this month: ‘No Muslim name finds place in BJP’s Bengal list’. The story went on to provide readers the...
When Donald Trump amplifies a remark describing countries like India as “hellholes,” it is not merely a lapse in language—it is a calculated...
India has a new champion of women. He is loud about it. He wants you to believe it. And he is counting on you to forget everything that came before....
There are credible reports that China The violence in Manipur is escalating at an alarming rate. People are being killed, including children. Bomb...
It’s a war in Bengal. Between Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, which has had an unbroken run of three terms or 15 years in the state, and the...
The recent directive by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)—making third language (R3) compulsory from Class VI—will reshape...
In the history of the Indian Republic, the ‘Address to the Nation’ has traditionally been treated as a solemn instrument of the state — a...
Ever since US President Donald Trump realised that bombarding Iran would not result in the Islamic regime in Tehran caving in, he began looking for a...
Great powers sometimes isolate themselves through overreach. The United States under Donald Trump is in that zone. By aligning reflexively with...
On Thursday, 16 April, Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin burnt a copy of the proposed Constitution (131st) Amendment Bill 2026 and hoisted a black...
What explains our inability — or, if we are to be charitable, our reticence — to influence the world around us? Like the rest of the world, India...
On 17 April, the Imphal Times carried a headline: 'CM Khemchand calls for dialogue, peace during emotional visit to various villages of Ukhrul...
Imphal Times of 17 April carried the headline: “CM Khemchand calls for dialogue, peace during emotional visit to various villages of Ukhrul...
The suspense has finally been laid to rest. The ‘revolutionary’ step we were primed to expect, ostensibly to empower India’s women, was suddenly...
When factory workers in Noida’s industrial sectors protested on 13–14 April, India’s prime time TV anchors got to work on a plausible conspiracy...
The Reserve Bank of India’s Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (March 2026 round) shows perceived inflation to be 7.2 per cent. This is...
The two-day debate in the Lok Sabha on the women’s reservation Bill failed to answer several critical questions. While the Bill, reintroduced after...
As West Bengal moves towards the 2026 Assembly elections scheduled for 23 and 29 April, a key political message emerging from opposition parties is...
As the nation marks the start of the year-long bicentenary celebrations of the birth of Mahatma Jotirao Phule, the BJP has launched high-decibel...
The new government in Nepal has hit the ground running, taking a bewildering array of decisions in its first week in office, leaving people guessing...
I am not sure why but the Indian state finds the idea of international mediation distasteful. The distaste extends to both the mediator and the...
It is hard to predict the end of the West Asia war. Even after the agreed two-week ceasefire at the time of writing, a deep distrust will persist on...
While the fear-fascinated gaze of the world was fixed on Donald Trump’s dangerous brinkmanship with Iran, the simultaneous devastation in Lebanon...
Even as the war in West Asia sends fuel prices into a dizzying upward spiral, at fuel stations in India, prices have counter-intuitively held steady....
The Narmada — often hailed as the lifeline of central India — is currently fighting for its sanctity and survival. A nationwide debate has erupted...
Appellate tribunals in West Bengal are yet to start functioning and according to media reports they have so far ordered the restoration of just two...
Why did the man steering India’s school curriculum feel the need to make such an outrageously false claim? Was it driven by WhatsApp forwards, a...
On 13 March, the social justice and empowerment minister Virendra Kumar tabled the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 in...
Donald Trump’s second term has stripped away the ideological veil that once softened America’s manoeuvres for global dominance. What earlier US...
As the US-Israeli war on Iran enters the second month with its ultimate aim still shrouded in confusion, there’s much speculation whether it is part...
A century-old dispute in Kerala’s Saint Thomas Christian community may appear, at first glance, to be a local affair. The long-running feud between...
The six-party Asom Sonmilito Morcha (ASM), led by the Congress, is projecting confidence as Assam heads towards the 9 April Assembly elections. This...
We are in the second month of what is settling in to become a long war, and it is worth setting down a few observations. The first is that nations...
Title: A Controversial Judge Author: Ayaskanta Das & Paranjoy Guha Thakurta Publisher: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta Year of publication: 2025 Before...
Diplomatic failure doesn’t always announce itself. It manifests in silences at the United Nations, in absences from negotiating tables, in the slow...
There was high drama at the office of the CEO (chief election officer), West Bengal when a delegation led by Trinamool Congress general-secretary...
India is confronting an unprecedented convergence of crises, where geopolitical turbulence in West Asia intersects with structural climate...
The assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on 28 February didn't just plunge the Islamic Republic of Iran into a succession crisis;...
Whatever else he may be, this wasn’t the prime minister of a self-styled ‘Vishwaguru’ nation. Not the man who claims India’s drumbeat echoes...
As Tamil Nadu approaches another assembly election, its political landscape reflects a paradox that has come to define the state. There is continuity...
The ruling BJP is making a push for delimitation without waiting for the 2027 Census findings, on the grounds that it will enable implementation of...
Fog in March is as unheard of as snow in summer. March is the month for palash (flame of the forest) to burst into bloom, for wheat to ripen as it...
What interest can there be today in my speech in honour of Dr Manmohan Singh? After all, he became prime minister of India back in 2004, was in office...
March is usually the season when the first aroma of ripening Alphonso mangoes wafts through the orchards of the Konkan belt. In Maharashtra, Gujarat...
It's a disturbing sign of the times that the global levers of power today are controlled by genocidal murderers, sex offenders, megalomaniacs,...
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