Opinion - Page 16

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Aakar Patel | If Modi adopts Vajpayee’s line, he’ll get more space to...

What is today India’s dominant political force, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has had a history of putting a pause on...

17 Sept 2024 12:10 AM IST

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DC Edit | States in crisis as parties pledge freebies for votes

Give a man a fish and you provide him a meal but teach him how to fish and you give him a livelihood, goes a saying....

16 Sept 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Sanjaya Baru | A very Hyderabadi boy who became an icon of the Left

When he left Hyderabad for New Delhi in 1969, to complete his schooling that was disrupted by the separate Telangana ...

16 Sept 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Kishwar Desai | Kate’s new video captivates UK; ‘dynamic pricing’ for...

It was only a three-minute video but it has captivated the nation. Katharine, the Princess of Wales was the centre...

16 Sept 2024 12:10 AM IST

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DC Edit | World waits for US Fed to act

In a couple of days, economists and central banks across the world will focus on Washington where the governors of the ...

16 Sept 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Anita Katyal | Is hung House likely in J-K? Kamal Nath on comeback...

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s twin poll planks — abrogation of Article 370 and restoration of normalcy — are on test in ...

15 Sept 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Ranjona Banerji | Kolkata, Haryana boiling; but hate isn’t the answer

There’s a certain smugness about us Indians in the way we present ourselves as a culture which is proud of the concept...

15 Sept 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Pavan K. Varma | Kandahar surrender: Why slam series? Learn lessons!

I am surprised at the controversy over the Netflix series on the IC-814 hijacking. The series is not without its...

15 Sept 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Patralekha Chatterjee | Venom or Viksit Bharat: The choice is quite...

How do we get to “Viksit Bharat” without dealing with the clashing images of “vikas” and venom? Last month,...

14 Sept 2024 12:10 AM IST

DC Comment

DC Edit | Health benefits for 70+ welcome

In the Indian movies of the 1970s and 1980s, ailing parents were always cited as one of the reasons for youth taking ...

14 Sept 2024 12:10 AM IST

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DC Edit | Bail for Kejriwal overdue, but why so many conditions?

The long running saga of arrest by multiple agencies on money laundering and corruption conspiracy charges in the...

14 Sept 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Will the ‘Swifties’ swing it for Dems? Or ‘weird’ Don...

“O Bachchoo, if it’s only rupees You can put a price on loss But what if it’s events that the heart foresees ...

14 Sept 2024 12:10 AM IST