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Honouring Dr Manmohan Singh as Parliament reconvenes

Honouring Dr Manmohan Singh as Parliament reconvenes

Soon after this article appears, on February 1, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her eighth Budget (six annual and two interim...

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A Cardinal for a changing world

A Cardinal for a changing world

Just before Christmas, I had the great pleasure of participating in a grand welcome in the small central Kerala town of Changanassery for India’s...

16.01.2025 5

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Marking 100 years of Gandhiji's leadership as Congress president

This December 26, the Indian National Congress marks the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi’s ascent to the Presidency of the party with a special session...

28.12.2024 10

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An audacious yet terrific scrutiny of Hinduism

It was with a great sense of pride and affection that I recently released Manu S Pillai’s fifth book, Gods, Guns and Missionaries, in New Delhi. I...

16.12.2024 6

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Need for 'Right to Disconnect'

The tragic death of Anna Sebastian Perayil, a 26-year-old employee at Ernst & Young (EY), from cardiac arrest after her first four months at work –...

03.12.2024 6

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The Winning Formula

An interesting new book by a Malayali happened to catch my attention (since he sent it to me!). In The Winning Formula: 52 Ways to Change Your...

17.11.2024 5

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The Renaissance man who could have been President

It is not often that one comes across a statesman who has completed seventy-five splendorous years in the service of India and her people. Indeed...

02.11.2024 9

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The journey of the soul

I was honoured, recently, to launch a very special book by India's most eminent living film director, Shri Adoor Gopalakrishnan, written in...

06.10.2024 3

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On the battlefield of history: Safeguarding India’s religious pluralism

On 21 April 2024, India -- in the throes of a scorching summer and an equally searing national election -- watched in horror as Prime Minister...

17.09.2024 9

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Remnants of the Raj

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Ukraine, following hard on the heels of his controversial embrace of Vladimir Putin in Moscow,...

01.09.2024 4

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We must preserve the idea of India

At midnight on 15 August 1947, independent India was born as its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, proclaimed ‘a tryst with destiny... a...

25.08.2024 4

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LDF's Barcelona blunder Thiruvananthapuram is paying the price for

On Saturday, 13 July 2024, three sanitation workers descended into the Amayizhanchan canal, brimming appallingly with garbage, to clean its...

03.08.2024 1

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Why we must keep 'Relearning' our Republic

Santayana famously told us that those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Even if history does not repeat itself, Mark Twain...

17.07.2024 3

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