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Shashi Warrier | The Leopard on WhatsApp

Shashi Warrier | The Leopard on WhatsApp

It all started with WhatsApp. In case you don’t know what WhatsApp is, it’s a free cellphone app that serves...

3 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

Afghanistans Hashmatullah Shahidi. (PTI Image)

Manish Tewari | Why India must gird itself for Pak-Afghan showdown

On the 23rd of October, 2023, Afghanistan steamrolled Pakistan in the recently concluded cricket World Cup. In a vivid...

3 Dec 2023 12:02 AM IST

What happens to the Kohinoor once its returned will be a matter of contention. (DC File Image)

Farrukh Dhondy | UK must return all its loot from the Elgin Marbles to...

“O Bachchoo why do you dance with such delight The day is young and the sun and love are bright You now rejoice...

2 Dec 2023 12:10 AM IST

Maharashtra Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis pays tribute to the martyrs who laid down their lives while fighting terrorists during 26/11 attack, on its 15th anniversary in Mumbai, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (PTI Photo/Kunal Patil)

Shobhaa De | A not so grand goodbye to 2023 and here's to 2024

The party season is on big time. Of course, I am referring to the political parties bickering and haggling –...

2 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

People at the under-construction Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel after the successful evacuation of the 41 trapped workers, in Uttarkashi district, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Indranil Banerjie | The Silkyara lesson: Can we unite to fight crises?

When the rescuers tunnelling into the blocked Himalayan tunnel at Silkyara in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi region...

1 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

Even before the current surge of respiratory illnesses in China, in much of 2023, there have been many children and adults in India. (AP File Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Chandrakant Lahariya | Flu-like illnesses' outbreak in China no cause...

The surge in respiratory illnesses in China is once again in the news. Since mid-October 2023, there had been an...

1 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

The former Union home secretary and 1970-batch IAS officer has willingly parted ways with his lifes earnings, a whopping Rs 5 crores, donating them to his deity at the grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya. (Representational Image: PTI)

Dilip Cherian | Ram Lalla to be recipient of one retired babu's bhakti...

In a gesture that blends the spiritual with the sensational, a retired babu, S. Lakshmi Narayanan, has elevated his...

30 Nov 2023 12:00 AM IST

The Election Commission has banned the Congress election advertisements on television and social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook to stop airing the advertisements. (Representative Image: Facebook)

Shikha Mukerjee | Public discourse standards fall, distorted by EC's...

The EC has limited power to control the terms of public discourse

30 Nov 2023 12:00 AM IST

A file photo shows the Indian army personnel carring out drills at Kibithu close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh. (PTI File Photo)

Bhopinder Singh | As institutions get trivialised, selfie points'...

To believe that there is no deliberate diminishing, misuse or even usurpation of various governmental institutions is to...

29 Nov 2023 12:06 AM IST

Palestinians inspect the destruction caused by Israeli strikes in Wadi Gaza, in the central Gaza Strip on November 28, 2023, amid a truce in battles between Israel and Hamas. A truce between Israel and Hamas entered a fifth day on November 28 after the deal was extended to allow further releases of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | As 2 wars rage in world, is India facing a...

While we are thankfully not yet in the midst of a third world war, the planet has nevertheless faced “active armed...

29 Nov 2023 12:02 AM IST

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan (Twitter)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The politics of governors: How Centre...

The post of the governor remains a constitutional anomaly. The governor is supposed to head the executive of the state...

27 Nov 2023 11:38 PM IST

Assuming the census is held soon, the government will have to do some deft management of perceptions. (PTI Image)

Aakar Patel | When will India conduct its next census? And then the...

For 50 years, India has not changed the composition of the Lok Sabha (through what is called delimitation). Enormous...

27 Nov 2023 11:34 PM IST