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Over the last two years, we have felt the ground shift beneath our feet in higher education. AI has transformed what we do in college classrooms. The...
Saudi Arabia’s decision on 5 October to activate the Makkah defence pact reveals how precarious its security has become. In the Houthis, it faces an...
As I find it a little more difficult to get out of bed each succeeding autumn morning, my mind (what’s left of it, that is) inevitably wanders to...
On 5 March 2021, the Press Information Bureau of the Indian government put out a statement headlined: ‘Rebuttal to Freedom House report on India’s...
There is an interesting story about Amit Shah’s first election victory, narrated by journalist Rajdeep Sardesai in his book 2024: The Election That...
The 1960s were the decade of rage in Calcutta. Naxalite violence had reached the city. Not a day passed without multiple processions choking the...
Never before has the country seen public protests on Gandhi Jayanti the way we did this year. As a pithy social media meme put it, 2 October is the...
Can protests bring about change? I have faced this question again and again over the past three months, especially since July, when young Indians from...
Kerala has ordered a fresh Vigilance probe into allegations dating back to Gyanesh Kumar’s tenure as PWD secretary in 2006....
The report argues that opposition unity requires rallying around Rahul Gandhi and the Congress, which it describes as the only opposition force with a...
A new war is gathering momentum in Ethiopia, with repercussions far beyond its borders. Federal troops are fighting Tigrayan forces as a seven-member...
Ahead of Durga Puja, one of the most eagerly-awaited movements across the Bangladesh-India border has been stalled. Bangladesh has not authorised its...
The Satya Niketan incident raises uncomfortable questions for those in power (should they choose to face them). The collapse of the five-storey...
The recent death by suicide of Sahil Wakode, a second-year student at IIT Bombay, has raised questions around alleged caste-based discrimination in...
Former Kerala chief electoral officer Teeka Ram Meena should know chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar well — they were colleagues in the IAS...
While Gandhi Jayanti is still fresh on our minds and the right to peaceful assembly is in the news again, let’s look at a few things that may be...
For most of Punjab’s post-Independence history, the first question a voter asked about a politician was “Banda khandaani hai? (is he a man of...
In response to a recent blog of mine about unregulated construction in Himachal, a discerning reader commented that he had done an online search for...
At the time of writing on 2 October, Gandhi Jayanti, India was enacting a new civil disobedience movement. It couldn’t have chosen a better day. The...
Sukhbir Singh Badal calls Waris Punjab De (heirs of Punjab) ‘virus Punjab de’. The intensity of his attacks, coming months before the Assembly...
The Houthis’ dramatic advance along the Red Sea, their control of areas around the Bab al-Mandab strait and their renewed missile and drone attacks...
Every year, as 2 October approaches, Gandhi returns to our midst. He appears in official ceremonies, school functions, speeches and the seemingly...
Corruption and bribery are two words that are often used interchangeably. Or are they? Bribery, in the way we use the word today, dates to the 16th...
In 2025, it was a problem of too much rain. Rain and flood fury in southeast and central Maharashtra ravaged thousands of hectares of crops, flattened...
If you were to judge the SIR and the conduct of the Election Commission of India and its chief Gyanesh Kumar by any reasonable yardstick of...
All the signs of the Second Coming, as foretold in the Bible, are visible: wars and conflicts, natural disasters, lawlessness and the moral decay of...
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...
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