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The recent Gen Z and Gen Alpha protests have put the spotlight on India’s broken education system. Just two bits of data give a sense. Education in...
The joint family was one of the better constituents and binding blocks of Indian society for centuries. Consisting of three or four generations living...
Bangladesh has not yet taken a firm decision to join the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, but its government is publicly advertising its interest...
Dear Shri Harish Salve Ji, I usually do not watch television interviews. What prompted me to watch the interview you gave Arnab Goswami of Republic TV...
A foreign outlet interviewed me this week and at the end of it, after we had wrapped up, the interviewer said he was surprised. He said he did not...
National security advisor Ajit Doval’s visit to Beijing to hold ‘boundary talks’ with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi is diplomatic groundwork...
On 25 August, RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat landed in New York City. Later that week, he was scheduled to deliver the keynote address at a Madison Square...
Sugar has suddenly become an unlikely inflation story. Retail sugar prices, which averaged Rs 48 a kilo on 20 July, had climbed to Rs 56 on 20 August....
Nepal’s latest disaster is a grim warning. A sudden, deadly flood along the Nepal-Tibet border that claimed hundreds of lives is not just another...
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has opened a fresh debate in Bengal by seeking to influence how Durga Puja should be celebrated. At a discussion in...
At a women-only edition of his 'Chhatron Ki Goonj' outreach in Pune on Saturday, 22 August, Rahul Gandhi delivered one of the most...
For months, Bangladesh and India had been inching toward what diplomats like to call a reset: the careful reopening of a relationship that had been...
I first held Jawaharlal Nehru’s hand as a nine-year-old when he gave me a prize — a walkie-talkie doll — for my story in Shankar’s Weekly, the...
In nine months from now, the much-awaited and long-delayed Census exercise will have completed a countrywide population enumeration. Beginning 1...
Over the past three weeks, schoolchildren have walked out of their classrooms, marched to government offices, locked school gates, sat on roads and...
It may sound like a lofty claim. But my experience as a primary school teacher has taught me that teaching is not just another occupation. "A...
Headline from this week: 'Pune Police withdraws conversion law provisions from 2 cases after officials find Act not in force yet.' Our...
It is now certain that the proposed visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to Delhi for a one-on-one meeting with Narendra Modi is off the...
In his Independence Day address from the ramparts of Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an announcement that the government would use...
A new Amnesty International investigation has blown the lid on the Indian government’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. The report titled ‘Made in...
For most of India's middle class, the E20 debate seemed like a car problem. Would their five-year-old hatchback run on petrol blended with 20...
A Truth Social post on 18 August, sent out in the name of US President Trump, was largely ignored in the US but received wide traction in India for...
Separate incidents of extreme violence in West Bengal in recent weeks have resulted in the death of a young man from Kerala who was lynched by a mob,...
It has been a truly torrid summer — and not just because of the unprecedented heatwave. Britain's political climate, too, has hotted up, with...
For decades, Israel’s greatest strategic asset was not its army, nuclear capability or intelligence services. It was the extraordinary political...
In recent days, a word has been restored to the vocabulary of Indian politics. That word is ‘resistance’. Whether resistance should be rendered in...
Where there is power, there is resistance…Resistance has no single locus, no one great refusal. [It] is…dispersed across society, appearing...
The Tricolour can hold its head high this year, despite the misfortune of its unfurling at the Red Fort by a man who does not deserve to hold it. It...
Independence is linked to freedom and is a meaningless word without it. A few years ago, I had surveyed the state of freedom in India as the world saw...
A mature democracy stays alive through informed civic participation, freedom of thought and respect for dissent. Resistance, therefore, is not an...
It was on expected lines. The takeaway from the Independence Day address by the prime minister: sab changa si. His government is in control and all...
Perhaps the most significant achievement of the recent Gen Z protest in Delhi is the breach it has opened in the climate of fear and submission....
The writing has been on the wall for quite some time, for all to see except perhaps the acolytes of the NDA government. India's falling...
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant has said his controversial remarks likening some young people to "cockroaches" were "misquoted"...
The US-Iran war has brought unending misery. The dust has barely settled, yet the conflict continues to stir new trouble. The US believes the world...
Saudi Arabia has spent decades preparing for a confrontation with Iran. It has purchased some of the world’s most advanced weapons from the West,...
A wit wryly defined democracy as ‘a rumour not yet disproved’. In our time, that’s indeed the case — in Chile, Russia, Nigeria, Egypt, the US,...
There was a remarkable exchange in the Delhi High Court this week. The government was asked why it was not considering shutting down the Jantar Mantar...
Most Respected Swamiji, May I seek your kind permission to apply for the post of Chief Executive Officer of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra?...
The NEET paper leak may have triggered the recent student uprising but it would be a mistake to imagine the protests were mainly against the...
Now that we have an idea of what Mr Modi looks like at the stroke of the midnight hour, and have also learnt how to install a teleprompter on a mobile...
Wondering what decadence is? Many of us in Assam are wondering just that. When a death toll becomes just a statistic, is that a sign of decadence?...
After a long interval, the Cauvery has returned to the centre of southern India's political discourse with all the familiar ingredients of a...
There is a familiar pattern in today's India. First comes dissent. Then comes the investigation. Increasingly, what follows is not merely...
Bye-elections are usually inconsequential. They rarely change the arithmetic and never pose an existential threat to the government in power. The...
The BJP may have captured power in Bihar with a dodgy but resounding victory in this year's Assembly elections, but the Bankipur bypoll has...
On Friday, 31 July, Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted another late-night Instagram reel in which he assumed a paternalistic air to ‘forgive’ the...
On 28 July, while Benjamin Netanyahu was meeting Donald Trump behind closed doors in the White House, Israeli soldiers and settlers were storming...
'Go be the prime minister’, my dad would say every time I said something remotely critical of the government. ‘You can’t change anything...
The Reserve Bank of India’s latest Financial Stability Report is reassuring about the health of banks and non-banking finance companies. It is,...
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