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Shashi Warrier | Whose club best between barber and Zuckerberg?

The other day I dropped in at the local barbershop without calling the barber, Abid, in advance, to book a slot. When I...

13 Aug 2023 12:30 AM IST

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Manish Tewari | Stealth not good mode for doing theatre commands

In 1934, Charles de Gaulle, in his book titled Vers l’Armée de Métier (Towards a...

13 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Just Stop Oil! Protests over fossil fuels in UK...

“The clouds have parted The thunder falls As if heaven farted Or an ultimatum calls The ocean thrashes The...

12 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

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Shobhaa De | Rahul Baba, where's your jhumka? What jhumka???

Phew! I’m so relieved Rahul Gandhi finally found his jhumka. What jhumka? Ummmm… the one he...

12 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

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Suresh Subrahmanyan | Much ado about a flying kiss' in the Lok Sabha &...

The “flying kiss”, a largely fashionable Western affectation (though also fairly common in elite social...

11 Aug 2023 12:19 AM IST

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Skand Tayal | SCO is at the crossroads: Will it remain relevant?

The 22nd summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) virtually hosted by India on July 4 has raised many...

11 Aug 2023 12:03 AM IST

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Dilip Cherian | Mishra, Gauba, Bhalla and the ripple effect of many...

The Centre’s longing for an extension to its trusted and tested babus was made obvious when it approached the...

10 Aug 2023 12:32 AM IST

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K.C. Singh | China, Ukraine shadow over Sept G-20 summit

Senior officials from nearly 40 nations attended the peace conference on the Ukraine war in Jeddah on August 6-7. Russia...

10 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

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Indranil Banerjie | A Law to Protect Citizens, Or To Help in State...

In today’s digital age, privacy is a chimera -- the reality is that every intimate detail of our lives, from our...

9 Aug 2023 12:00 AM IST

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740m people are at risk in India from a neglected tropical disease

An estimated 740 million people across India are at risk of a disease that is largely neglected in the public discourse....

9 Aug 2023 12:00 AM IST

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Aakar Patel | Kashmirisation' spreads to rest of India: Rules flouted,...

Four years ago, when the Kashmir move was made (what a different time that was: before CAA, before the farmers’...

8 Aug 2023 12:10 AM IST

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Shikha Mukerjee | Testing time lies ahead for the mother of democracy'

Democracies are fragile”, wrote Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, academics and best-selling authors, in their...

8 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST