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Pavan K VarmaThe Times of India |
Why is it that a country united by a civilisation for millennia, has people who at the level of daily life, are so easily divided? Of course, we have...
On October 2, we once again paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. His remarkable legacy lives on, but there is one aspect of his persona I want to focus on:...
The much-debated National Education Policy (2020) seeks to root education in the Indian ethos and civilisational heritage. This is welcome. But the...
In the context of the ongoing Iran war, I wonder if people have thought about the difference in intrinsic strengths between nation-States and...
Beneath the rhetoric of righteousness, the ongoing war in West Asia reveals a stark reality of power, profit and profound human cost.
A debate has recently arisen in India over the food served at official banquets for visiting foreign dignitaries. The controversy centres on the...
The essence of sovereign equality, enshrined in the UN Charter, transcends geopolitical convenience
When politics becomes sharply adversarial, every institution—media, academia, cinema—gets drawn into its vortex
No international agreement is a perfect one, nor should we expect the India-US trade agreement to be one. We can only assess who has benefited once...
It prompts an uncomfortable question: where was this indignation when the West repeatedly chose power over principle, expediency over ethics, and...
If power, unadorned and unapologetic, has become the only meaningful currency in the world, then the only option left for India is to become as...
Whatever the name—MGNREGA or the VB-G-RAM-G Act—the policy should not be a continuation of doles and freebies but a pathway to systemic solutions
Conventions are not ornamental niceties; they are oxygen for a democratic polity that seeks to rise above the transactional
The blunt truth is that even after decades as a democracy, the mentality of a stratified society continues to thrive
An estimated Rs 1.35 lakh crore was spent in the 2024 parliamentary elections, almost double the spend in 2019
Scientists estimate that air pollution in Delhi reduces an average life by almost a decade
In our age of acceleration — where the tyranny of the urgent trumps the importance of the essential — the idea of leisure has been tragically...
It’s time the Supreme Court intervened both in the matter of freebies given just before the elections and the kind of wild promises made by...
Elections are unpredictable, and will come and go. But what is incontrovertible is the decline of Nitish Kumar, from a once towering figure in Bihar...
Each of the six systems of Hindu philosophy is a search not for divinity but for what the truth could be behind the bewildering plurality of this vast...
What is happening in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is due to the acts of omission and commission of Pakistan
The recent proposal to remove from office a Chief Minister or the Prime Minister if they spend 30 consecutive days in jail, invites both serious...
Ambassadors during VVIP visits have a tough job. From ensuring smooth departures to finding hard-to-find gifts, there is nothing they do not deliver
Trump will come and go. Indo–American relations are important to us, and to the US, and will survive this irrational aberration
This new form of diplomatic choreography has come to define India’s global presence at the highest level—a gesture both simple and powerful.
Meghnad and Kishwar were a much-loved part of Delhi’s social circle, and divided their time between London and Delhi, and Goa.
Donald Trump will come and go, but India must emerge stronger and more dynamic at the end of it