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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,...
Consider this thought experiment. Imagine that two large missiles struck the White House. The first hit the residential quarters at a time when the...
Donald Trump has not been coy about Cuba. He has openly coveted the ‘honour’ of taking the island. He has also suggested he can do what he likes...
Long before diplomacy had a name, India and Iran were already in conversation. The Indus Valley traded lapis lazuli and ivory with ancient Persia....
The Strait of Hormuz’s shipping lanes are just two nautical miles wide, requiring vessels to navigate extremely narrow channels while turning close...
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal has descended into confusion, triggering allegations of wrongful deletions,...
I want Iran to win. What does “win” mean? Iran defines it in the following way: the United States must lift its decades-old sanctions; it must...
When Karnataka announced in its budget that it would introduce Kerala-style home-based palliative care in collaboration with Pallium India, the...
Years ago, I watched a well-known ‘upper caste’ writer announcing on stage at a literary festival that he had learnt to cook because his mother...
When Tamil Nadu votes for a new Assembly on 23 April, the ritual of democracy will unfold with familiar precision. Polling booths will open at dawn,...
In late February, a Delhi court discharged all 23 accused in the excise policy case, ruling there was “no overarching conspiracy or criminal...
On 17 March, in the thick of the ongoing war in West Asia, a senior US intelligence official abruptly tendered his resignation. Joe Kent, director of...
In 1955, a young minister named Keshav Dev Malaviya walked into Jawaharlal Nehru’s office with a daring proposal — India had to explore, drill and...
For years, Uttar Pradesh’s governance has been synonymous with a culture of ‘bulldozer justice’, fake encounters, arbitrary arrests and a...
I can't be sure, but I'm fairly positive that the most Googled word this fortnight was 'gas', thanks to the Gulf conflict and the...
Sir, I can tell you this with 200 per cent certainty. The election announcement won’t come before 14 March. And let me add this—whatever happens...
There is a particular kind of strategic trap arrogant powerful leaders repeatedly fall into. A war launched with limited objectives achieves early...
As the United States–Israel war on Iran approaches its fourth week, the conflict has settled into a dangerous rhythm of escalation without...
Bureaucrats in West Bengal say they are not surprised by what they describe as the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) ‘shock and awe’...
What explains the sharpening rhetoric and widening scope of attacks against Iran from Washington DC and Tel Aviv? Both the United States and Israel...
Western media often paints Iran under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a dystopia for women, fixated on hijab mandates and protests while...
Since Parliament reconvened on March 9, Opposition legislators have asked for a discussion on the US-Israeli war on Iran. As expected, the Modi...
The youth and students who led popular uprisings in Bangladesh and Nepal — toppling entrenched governments in August 2024 and September 2025,...
In December 2025, the Lok Sabha extended the tenure of the joint parliamentary committee examining the draft ‘One Nation, One Election’ (ONOE)...
In capitals around the world there is talk of a prolonged war between Iran and US–Israel and the collateral damage this will inflict on Sunni Arab...
The smell of censorship hangs heavy over Delhi these days, enveloping two books — one for perhaps containing official secrets, the other for calling...
India’s new SIM-binding mandate for messaging platforms, which came into effect on 1 March, could fundamentally alter the way millions of citizens...
Animal conservationists are aghast at Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’s recent decision to relocate 50 leopards from state rescue...
On 4 November 2013, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to over 120 heads of Indian missions and outlined the five principles that defined his...
The United States, together with Israel, has once again stepped into a war in the Middle East without a clear objective, without a coherent strategy,...
At first glance, the whole episode looked like a storm in a teacup. But if you look a little more closely, the uproar over a brief reference to...
In the scorched sands of West Asia, a seismic shift is underway, one that buries decades of externally orchestrated discord beneath the weight of...
A smiling Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan (80) walks through the lawns of Cliff House, his official residence in Thiruvananthapuram, appearing...
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