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A river does not know the language of development. A mountain does not understand a building permit. A glacier recognises no political boundary, yet...
Every Sunday morning for the past twelve years, a stretch of road in Gurugram that carries cars the rest of the week has been handed back to people...
Somewhere above the line where Nepal ends and Tibet begins, in the last week of August, a mass of ice and the rock it had gripped for centuries let go...
Benjamin Netanyahu’s most consequential electoral victory may not require him to win Israel’s forthcoming parliamentary election. That paradox...
The collapse of building housing students in Delhi’s Satya Niketan should not be treated as another entry in India’s long catalogue of urban...
The preamble of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), signed on 19 September 1960 between India and Pakistan mentions that it is being done in a “spirit of...
On June 5, I wrote an Op-Ed in this newspaper on depression and briefly touched upon its frequent companion ~ loneliness. Space did not permit me to...
India’s latest GDP growth figure has delivered precisely the kind of political dividend that impressive headline numbers are meant to produce. At a...
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s greatest problem may no longer be winning the war in Ukraine. It may be finding a way to stop it. More than four...
Newsrooms have found a new noun and cannot put it down: Gen Z, pronounced as if it were a party with a leader, a manifesto, a whip and a press...
The catastrophic floods in Nepal should end a dangerous illusion in India: that Himalayan disasters can be neatly contained within national borders or...
On September 1, the 1 Armoured Division commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Phillora in the Sialkot sector – one of the fiercest...
In India, a wedding is rarely just the union of two people. It is a meeting of families, customs, languages, cuisines, histories and communities. This...
On the morning of August 26, a wall of water and rock roared down the Bhotekashi valley where Nepal meets Tibet, a glacier somewhere high above the...
Silicon Valley has built a vast economic edifice on an assumption that remains surprisingly untested: that once artificial intelligence becomes...
In commemorating Dr S Radhakrishnan’s birth anniversary, as Teachers’ Day every year on September 5, we unfold a relatively lesser-known facet of...
Few individuals have occupied the centre of Indian politics for as long while revealing as little of themselves as Sonia Gandhi. For nearly three...
For more than a century, the idea of a vaccine against cancer has occupied an uncertain space between scientific ambition and medical fantasy. Cancer...
It is Teacher’s Day again. And I find myself wondering what exactly we have become so good at celebrating. We celebrate teachers, quite rightly. We...
As one of the distinctly visible and integral components of public life, it is extremely difficult to ignore the various shades of colour that glare...
Nations rarely announce their turning points. They arrive as gazette notifications, addenda to handbooks, and judgments read out on a Friday...
A hundred days is too short to judge a government, but long enough to understand its instincts. By that measure, the BJP’s first months in power in...
A jewellery advertisement featuring actor Kriti Sanon has been withdrawn after criticism over her clothes while celebrating Rakshabandhan. What might...
Even as the freightlines open and the cranes swing over skylines that did not have them, conversations in some circles, typically elite ones, now...
India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held the 25th round of Special Representative (SR) talks with his counterpart, Chinese foreign minister...
How do you explain what Charles Dickens called “the best of times, and the worst of times?” We live today with massive social inequalities. The...
A village elder in the Himalayan foothills would watch ants carrying their eggs uphill. To a hurried visitor, it was an ordinary sight. To the elder,...
Dolly Parton’s death leaves America with an uncomfortable question: what happens to a public culture when almost every prominent figure is expected...
India’s eagerness to host Tarique Rahman is about more than diplomatic courtesy. It reflects a harder reality: New Delhi has lost the strategic...
For the majority of history, the character of politics was evident in the forms of power. It was the king on the throne, the emperor in the palace,...
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