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A society that distorts and devalues the past in an effort to promote the politics of the present damages itself and all those who live in it.
One would expect more interest in Modi’s trips in the Asia Pacific region. But there hasn't been a build-up in the Australian or New Zealand press...
Two nationalisms are shouting past each other. One would dissolve Murugan into a pan-Indian Hindutva spectacle, while the other would make him an icon...
With the rollout of Integrated Battle Groups, India is implementing a brigade-centric model nearly two decades after the US Army and about a decade...
Having spent a career watching the state respond to public alarm, I know its reflex: raise enforcement numbers, let the metric substitute for the...
There should be a public health advisory before every World Cup knockout game in which Argentina plays. And, Lionel Messi needs to stop giving his...
A colonial data project spanning provinces, dates and methods, the census revealed as much about British administration as it did about India.
Vikram Doraiswami’s posting comes at a moment when India and China are cautiously trying to stabilise ties after several difficult years.
The problem with a recent Economist article, ‘India’s republic of uncles’, is the old habit of mistaking a clever metropolitan caricature for...
From Prashna Raavan to journalist KV Reddy to comedians Anudeep Katikala and Mohammed Rafeeq, Andhra Pradesh's crackdown on dissent is starting to...
It is worth asking whether there is a case to decriminalise marijuana or, at the very least, treat it very differently from other drugs.
The task before India is not to become China. It is to become a more deliberate version of itself.
The most uncomfortable finding of the study based on the Time Use Survey, 2024 data is that rising education and income do not close the gender gap in...
Belgium's 4-1 win is bigger than securing a berth at the quarter-finals. It was silencing a nation which had been doing things just out of muscle...
July could be busiest month for India’s diplomatic establishment as Narendra Modi and S Jaishankar cover major power centres globally. The visits...
There’s a term for this kind of sport, borrowed from wildlife conservation, which describes hunting or baiting animals for pleasure of watching them...
The US is a country under considerable strain, with its politics polarised and immigration debate bitter. India should therefore resist both reflexive...
India-UK CETA promises duty-free access from 15 July, but the determining factor is procedural, rather than a high-level meeting.
India has the world’s third-largest renewable fleet, but we remain a coal-based economy. Coal still supplies close to three-quarters of the...
Defying the industry's usual comeback script, the actor rebuilt her life through a hit podcast, fashion, and reality TV.
By questioning the RSS’s legal registration status, Priyank Kharge aims to lock in minority and Dalit support for Congress on a national level.
What struck me the most at Ibbankatuwa was not the scale of its infrastructure, but the restraint with which the site has been presented.
Geography alone makes Indonesia strategically significant for India. Straddling the Malacca, Sunda, and Lombok Straits, it dominates the maritime...
The Modi government may ridicule bureaucrats in public, but its faith in trusted officers — and its dependence on them — has never been more evident.
The same week that Pakistan got funds from Britain and Australia to protect its “extraordinary” heritage, it destroyed a 125-year-old gurdwara...
Indian courts debate AI, judicial reforms and pendency. But for most litigants, the biggest obstacle is far simpler: websites that crash and often get...
In 1971, with Indira Gandhi's govt pushing constitutional amendments to curtail fundamental rights, including the right to property, Nani Palkhivala...
While Skoda's iconic Octavia RS is missed, the Kodiaq RS is a high-ground-clearance beast tackles city potholes and race tracks with equal ease.
The viral Haryanvi banger is a pushback against overbearing in-laws, as well as the manchildren who refuse to take a stand for their partners.
During Subbu's training, the instructor simply asks the trainees to shout ‘sex education’ as loudly as they can, and the training is over. That,...
Despite US efforts to isolate Iran, Tehran just showed how it can still leverage its historical and religious ties through Khamenei’s funeral.
What is being lost is not information. It is the capacity to do anything with information that requires a sustained, reflective, and internally...
As Republicans in the US gear up to tear down the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling, American gays are rejecting queerness and offering up...
The government’s notices to WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal over their username features have become the biggest test yet of privacy versus Delhi’s...
We surrendered our attention to the feed. We surrendered our memory to the search engine. We surrendered our solitude to the notification. Why...
The results are documented. According to government data, fire incidents in Punjab fell by over 90 per cent, from nearly 80,000 in 2020 to 5,114 by...
America's challenge is adapting to an international order where power is more diffused, technology outpaces institutions, alliances demand...
A lot has changed between Amitabh Bachchan's Zanjeer and Ranbir Kapoor's Animal. Today, the hero is the very man the old Angry Young Man used to...
Cabo Verde refused to be treated as minnows. They believed in themselves, and they believed in their fans who travelled thousands of kilometres just...
Besides India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, no representations from the Himalayan countries, Nepal and Bhutan, were reported by the media or...
In 1977, Constituent Assembly member MR Masani wrote about how only governments vulnerable to being voted out by the electorate will genuinely...
India and mangoes are a tale as old as time. Open any novel by a desi writer and you’ll find mango somewhere in the first chapter.
The regulatory framework that oversees the HEIs has such a large labyrinth of rules and regulations that institutions often have to work overtime to...
At the national level, no single agency has the mandate, the legal authority, and the public accountability to tell India what wildlife crime actually...
Tamil Nadu CM Vijay's 'animal spirits' aren't about consolidating power. They are aimed at making sure Udhayanidhi Stalin never gets the chance to...
One of the early examples of method dressing is when Geena Davis arrived at the 1992 premiere of A League of Their Own in a white dress detailed with...
The heatwave has somehow turned into another chapter in the long-running cultural rivalry between Europe and America.
The changing landscape has produced an uncomfortable realisation for Japan and India that their natural partnership has remained underutilised.
The most disturbing revelation at Sri Akal Takht Sahib was not the debate over Punjab’s proposed sacrilege law. It was the admission that...
India suffered a 2-0 defeat to Ireland in the two-match T20I series in Belfast, as the hosts registered their first-ever bilateral T20I series win...