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The trials of skipper Kohli, and lessons from the past

Head coach Ravi Shastri and captain Virat Kohli. File | Photo Credit: Reuters When someone is promoted from the ranks to a position of...

Suresh Menon

A reader wrote to us wondering whether discussions on technological disruptions and their impact on the news ecology are a ploy to deflect...

Recently, several human rights activists, alleged to be ‘conspirators’, were taken into custody by the police in India. Who are these activists or...

When the city of Shahjahanabad was being built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, his wives and daughter were also involved — they built mosques,...

Dissent is not only the “safety valve of democracy”, as Justice D.Y. Chandrachud reminded us, but vital for meaningful social life. Societies...

K.L. Rahul The 19th century American poet John Whittier was speaking for India when he said, “Of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest...

I am never tired of saying that the best journalism is akin to Umberto Eco’s idea of balancing humility and pride as a means for academic...