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The boorish conduct of vice-chancellor Alok Kumar Chakrawal towards writer Manoj Rupda at Guru Ghasidas University in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, is...

The timing of two recent Bills, introduced hastily and passed equally hastily by Parliament, has puzzled most observers. What prompted the ruling...

Iran has once again entered a familiar and dangerous moment. Since late December, protests that began over soaring prices, unpaid wages and...

On 27 October 2025, the Election Commission of India (ECI) launched a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across nine states and...

Folks who know me are aware that I am no diplomat; the only piece of diplomacy I know is that one should take a quick, and long, walk in the forest...

Wearing his democratic socialist heart on his sleeve, Zohran Mamdani took the oath of office as the mayor of New York in a decommissioned subway...

A few years ago, outside the transport commissioner’s office in Bandra, thousands of Ola and Uber drivers staged a protest. Their demands were...

There is much to admire about America, and quite a lot to dislike. The thing to admire most is how it is both able to attract many of the world’s...

Mohan Bhagwat insists the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) isn’t changing — it’s just “evolving” and “unfolding” like a cosmic banyan seed that...

I am tired of those messages in my inbox that go ‘tsk-tsk’ and ‘I am so sorry’ whenever a video of brutality on Muslim bodies goes viral. While we...

On 5 January, the Supreme Court denied Umar Khalid (and Sharjeel Imam) bail, while letting rapist Ram Rahim out on his 15th parole. Co-accused in...

Human beings have a curious capacity for adaptation. We can get used to almost any reality. We learn to live with tragedy and brutality, absorb...

For the past four months, the residents of Bhagirathpura, a densely populated area lying cheek-by-jowl with an industrial area in Indore, had been...

The year 2025, vandalised by the likes of Trump, Netanyahu and Putin, is now thankfully history, and I earnestly hope we see the backs of these war...

There are reasons why the Enforcement Directorate (ED) finds itself between a rock and a hard place after its ill-advised raids on the Kolkata...

In 2020, a Dalit girl was gang-raped and murdered in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. There was considerable delay in filing the FIR. The police hastily...