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The demolition of a mosque inside the Saharanpur Collectorate and the emergence of disputes over mosques in Moradabad and Sambhal have brought...
Of course the lion has to be replaced. You cannot have Durga ride a fierce carnivore and ask worshippers to be strict herbivores. And why should Ma...
The stretch of the Himalaya along the Tibet-Nepal border where the 26 August disaster originated is exceptionally fragile. Only last year, on 8 July,...
The just-concluded BRICS summit in Delhi may not be remembered for a particularly muscular declaration. But to focus on that may miss its import for...
Trump’s dominance of the Republican Party and his political resilience are central to his claim to historical significance. Trump’s dominance of...
Retired teacher K.K. Surendran did not go to Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan for a favour. After 23 years of fighting the State, he went to say:...
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes, said Otto von Bismarck, the wise man learns from the mistakes of others. It is now time for policymakers in...
Sensing that geopolitical winds may once again be changing direction, the Modi government executed some nifty U-turns at the New Delhi BRICS summit on...
After spending 87 days in detention and custody on suspicion of being a Bangladeshi national, 70-year-old Jalil Akhtar is finally free. The question...
Six years ago, on 13 September 2020, former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Umar Khalid was arrested in connection with the larger...
The Ganga Water Treaty between India and Bangladesh, signed in 1996, is up for renewal in December 2026. It was signed in an atmosphere of goodwill...
In early September, Dhirendra Krishna Shastri, a.k.a. Bageshwar Baba, the 30-year-old priest who presides over the Bageshwar Dham in Chhatarpur,...
'Attendance at the hearing is mandatory. Please treat this as urgent and make the necessary arrangements to attend without fail.' I had...
The United Nations General Assembly has taken a long-overdue step towards geographical honesty. On 4 September, 164 countries voted for a resolution...
The crucial Assembly election barely five months from now will decide whether the jhaadu sweeps Punjab a second time or gets swept out of the state....
‘All eyes are on India right now,’ wrote The Diplomat. The reference was to the BRICS summit in New Delhi (12-13 September). It went on to...
Dear Shri Devendra Fadnavis Ji, You may be happy that the Freedom of Religion Bill has come into force in Maharashtra. But there is an irony you may...
The Reserve Bank of India recently delivered a small but revealing lesson in economic policymaking. On 5 August, RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra was...
Five days before three tribal girls died of snakebite in a residential school in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, the Devendra Fadnavis government...
The 25th anniversary of the 11 September attacks will soon be upon us. Americans will mourn, taking time off to complain about high petrol prices...
Wrap your mind around this: over the three phases of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls in India, we have seen the deletion...
One doesn't eat out often, partly because I haven't yet received my last six DA instalments, but mainly because I can never find parking in...
On the morning of 26 August, the Himalaya delivered another warning. A cascade of geological triggers — their exact sequence still a subject of...
Telangana is undergoing one of the largest voter-verification exercises in its history. Under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), 60,50,918...
When India placed the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance after the Pahalgam terror attack of April 2025, the decision was presented by the Modi...
A journey of approximately 47 km from Pari Chowk to Kashmere Gate on a sleeper bus one rainy, dark night ended in a crime that once again raises...
The Narendra Modi government has spent considerable political capital projecting India as an emerging Vishwaguru — a global teacher, a...
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,...
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