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People hold placards while protesting against the CAA and NRC at Rajghat, New Delhi, on Saturday.

CAA: World looks at India with distaste, dismay

The government does not even need to build all the concentration camps, called â€œdetention centresâ€, around the...

5 Jan 2020 3:10 AM IST

When Bill Clinton, President of the United States, was revealed as having smoked cannabis at university, he protested that he did, but that he never inhaled .

Perhaps cannabis was exhilarating stuff, quaffed by the early Aryans

In Britain, at university, and then through long political association with West Indian comrades, there was a lot of...

4 Jan 2020 2:36 AM IST

Devendra Fadnavis

Dilli Ka Babu: Kaam Wapsi by senior officers?

Indian Economic Service (IES) officers have long felt ignored, overshadowed by the mighty IAS officers.

29 Dec 2019 5:44 AM IST

Both in India and Pakistan, there is a lack of awareness, generally speaking, about the nature of the divisions that produced Pakistan.

Indians have not learned lessons of Partition

In Pakistan, and particularly after the military capture of the state by successive generals, the narrative became quite...

29 Dec 2019 2:25 AM IST

The Rohingyas of Burma fled from genocidal persecution at the hands of the supposedly compassionate Buddhist nation. (Photo: AP)

Like in 1947, shouldnâ€™t Hindus show compassion?

The Syrians and Iraqis fled from the ruins of internecine war.

28 Dec 2019 2:10 AM IST

Bangladeshi nationals were caught by the security forces after they entered India without valid documents and were lodged in different detention camps. (Representational Image | PTI)

Detention camps are spreading all over... in India, China, America

Assam is not the only Indian state in which such camps are being planned.

27 Dec 2019 1:56 AM IST

Meanwhile, 9000 protestors have been booked and 2000 held for the violent protests across the state. (Photo: PTI)

Everyone should have access to medical care

The visuals of policemen storming into a hospital and banging on doors are hard to forget.

27 Dec 2019 1:52 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Photo: File)

Victory for Boris shows how tired Brits are of Brexit limbo

There was a time when finding a story on India in the London press was difficult, but now you can find at least a couple...

23 Dec 2019 3:18 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: The Gujarat syndrome

The Modi sarkar has been weeding out â€œdeadwoodâ€ in the bureaucracy at a fair pace.

22 Dec 2019 1:25 AM IST

With respect to communal messages, rather than remain quiet, I have responded politely by asking for names of Muslims assumed to be plundering the country so that action is taken against them.

Islamophobia, and a tale of 3 elections â€” in India, UK, US

With Brexit will come a more complex set of mechanisms that determine travel to the UK.

20 Dec 2019 1:47 AM IST

Haryana IAS officer and whistleblower Ashok Khemka (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: J&K babus in a spot

The Narendra Modi sarkar has got the â€œheaven bornâ€ on the backfoot.

15 Dec 2019 5:53 AM IST

Tens of thousands of protesters against the CAB descended on the streets of Assam, clashing with police and plunging the state into chaos of a magnitude unseen since the violent six-year movement by students that ended with the signing of the Assam accord. (Photo: PTI)

Immigration policy of BJP has unwanted side-effects

The Citizenship Amendment Bill offers these people cover and will only specifically exclude Muslims.

15 Dec 2019 5:49 AM IST