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Aakar Patel | Dulat memoirs an eye-opener on how India’s spooks...

India’s spies and spymasters do not usually write their memoirs. This is in keeping with bureaucrats, judges,...

27 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

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Mohan Guruswamy | What is the prescription for America’s many ills?

About a decade ago, Tom Friedman and Michael Mandrelbaum wrote a long lament titled “That Used to be US. What Went...

27 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India’s culture wars: A clash of...

There is also the basic question whether the Hindu liberals are really liberal, and whether the Hindu reactionaries are...

26 Dec 2022 2:30 PM IST

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Sanjaya Baru | The Big Powers and the Global South in 2023

The year that is now coming to an end will long be remembered for the war in Ukraine, just as 2009 is remembered for the...

26 Dec 2022 7:23 AM IST

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Kishwar Desai | After a Christmas of misery, looking to New Year with...

After a rather gloomy Christmas where strikes where the dominating theme, we are now reeling into a New Year where...

26 Dec 2022 12:51 AM IST

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Anita Katyal | What’s eating Ghulam Azad; daughter tends to Sushma...

Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is apparently getting increasingly fretful as Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo...

25 Dec 2022 12:12 AM IST

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Shreya Sen-Handley | At the end of this year, hit refresh

“So this is Christmas And what have you done? Another year over…” Beautiful, pertinent song though...

25 Dec 2022 12:04 AM IST

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Pavan K Varma | Hindus tolerant, inclusive: Why rush to take offence?

I have not had the honour and privilege of meeting with Shri Narottam Mishra, the Hon’ble Home Minister (HM) of...

25 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

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Shobhaa De | Forget Messi mania… Who will win WC cricket 2023?

Uffff! Such a relief to get back to a post-FIFA world! I, for one, don’t want to read a single extra line on Messi...

24 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Food or warmth? Tough choices on Hedgie’s watch as...

“Three pairs of serrated, pointed leaves Out-stretched -- each pair a crucified, angled arm These branches of...

24 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Govt has it easy in Parl session as Opp....

Prime Minister Modi and the ruling BJP have sent out the message that the Opposition is in direct and indirect ways...

23 Dec 2022 10:04 AM IST

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Chandrakant Lahariya | Lesson from China-'s surge: Don-'t drop guard...

The surge in China has not changed anything in India and there is no need to change people-related approaches in the...

23 Dec 2022 9:50 AM IST