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File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi waving at people from the Bogibeel Bridge, the longest rail-cum-road bridge on Brahmaputra river. (Representational Image/PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Will â€˜linking riversâ€™ work, or end up as a...

I keep hearing that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to unveil the often spoken and then shelved ‘Rivers Link...

9 Jan 2023 6:30 PM

Narasimha Raos son P.V. Prabhakara Rao, senior journalist K.R. Murty, former CBI joint director V.V. Laxminarayana and journalist Maa Sarma were in present. (Photo: DC)

Baru credits ex-PM P.V. for pursuing right economic, foreign policies

Hyderabad: Reminiscing about Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao’s tenure, well-known political commentator and...

7 Jan 2023 6:12 PM

Victory in Gujarat will make BJP only party other than the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to have won seven straight assembly elections.(Representational Image/PTI)

DC Edit | BJP gets poll machine in top gear for 2024

A week is a long time in politics, they say. But what differentiates the BJP from the other political parties in India...

20 Dec 2022 6:40 PM

The departures arent by any means a flood, but when there are just 800-plus families left in the Valley, it matters when even a few go away. (Representational Image/Twitter)

Anand K. Sahay | Kashmir still plagued by undercurrents of crisis

Many Kashmiri Pandits who didn’t leave the Valley even in the high noon of terrorism in the early 1990s are now...

4 Dec 2022 6:30 PM

File photo of Prime Minister and senior BJP leader Narendra Modi waving at supporters at a public meeting ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections, in Kheda district. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Gujarat, Modiâ€™s home base, remains a...

The relentless campaigning by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah for the coming Gujarat...

29 Nov 2022 6:30 PM

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Mohan Guruswamy | The 1962 India-China war: In dubious battle

I was in school in 1962, but the events of September, October and November are still etched in my mind. They still tell...

21 Nov 2022 6:30 PM

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists gather during a roadshow of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the seventh phase of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections in Varanasi. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | How BJPâ€™s line changed over civil liberties & social...

The BJP has evolved over the years in an unusual manner, going from being conservative on social issues to radical. In...

25 Oct 2022 6:30 PM

The Dera Sacha Sauda of Ram Rahim Singh has been a cult that was much in the news. (Representatioanl Image/AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | The challenge of the cults: Can we overcome them?

Way back in 1843 Karl Marx in an introduction to a book that criticised Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of the...

5 Sept 2022 6:36 PM

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Pavan K. Varma | Whither Dharma in an ethical wasteland?

Atal Behari Vajpayee had once wondered if Indians suffer from an “ethical deficit”. In other words, are they...

3 Sept 2022 6:40 PM

World needs to be clear on what terrorism is

World needs to be clear on what terrorism is

George Orwell was a cross-border terrorist. He was a police officer who was born in Motihari in Bihar.

28 Sept 2019 8:36 PM

Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayees daughter Namita Kaul and other family members perform rituals during his cremation with full state honours, at Rashtriya Smriti Sthal in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: AFP)

Daughter lights Atal Behari Vajpayee's pyre

Modi walks behind cortege as nation bids adieu to Vajpayee.

17 Aug 2018 6:50 PM

Modis grip unlikely to loosen in 2017

Modi's grip unlikely to loosen in 2017

Are we a totally different people today than we were in the 1960s?

31 Dec 2016 10:24 PM