Columnists - Page 98

Opinion

Dilip Cherian | More secys quit: Is lateral entry losing its sheen?

Lateral entry was a much-awaited administrative reform introduced in 2018 as part of Modi Sarkar’s larger civil...

6 April 2023 12:05 AM IST

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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will breakup of monopolies give Indian...

It may be just a coincidence that China’s Internet giant Alibaba had said that it will split into six separate...

6 April 2023 12:00 AM IST

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Kamal Davar | Tackling Amritpal, foiling ISI designs: Delhi, Pun need...

In multi-religious and multi-ethnic nations, that are diverse in a hundred ways, inter-societal tensions do crop up...

5 April 2023 12:05 AM IST

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Sanjeev Ahluwalia | How culture underpins the budgets of states in...

Associating budgetary allocations with cultural tropes is one way of validating them. Consider the case of two Indian...

5 April 2023 12:00 AM IST

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Aakar Patel | Targeting others': How will it benefit India or brighten...

Ideologies usually have an end-state or a desired place they want to arrive at. Marxists think that the State will...

4 April 2023 12:17 AM IST

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Sunil Gatade | Has entire BJP become a Margdarshak Mandal'?

How will the entire Opposition cope with the situation in the wake of the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok...

4 April 2023 12:09 AM IST

Opinion

Kishwar Desai | King's German trip apt; as Covid tally climbing,...

The Easter break means school holidays — which means getting away with or without kids! And now this also means...

3 April 2023 12:32 AM IST

Opinion

Sanjaya Baru | Political & electoral funding: Transparency in...

There is no statement more apt to describe the state of affairs when it comes to election financing in India than the...

3 April 2023 12:18 AM IST

Opinion

Anita Katyal | Last of G-23 no longer pariahs; will Rahul play martyr'...

The delay in challenging Rahul Gandhi’s conviction by the Surat sessions court in a defamation case and his...

2 April 2023 12:19 AM IST

Opinion

Shashi Warrier | Viruses & nukes: Will we wake up in time or stew?

The other day I woke up at three in the morning to a green light pulsing in our garden. When I went out, I saw a shining...

2 April 2023 12:14 AM IST

Opinion

Pavan Varma | Liberty key element in alchemy of democracy

It was September 1982. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was on a state visit to the Soviet Union. During her visit, talks...

2 April 2023 12:10 AM IST

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Syed Ata Hasnain | Global shift? China is on a geopolitical overdrive

With the Russia-Ukraine war going past its one-year mark and showing little sign of abating anytime soon, the world is...

1 April 2023 12:52 AM IST