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Opinion

DC Edit | Let the West criticise, India needn't be so oversensitive

On the canvas of a bitterly divided polity, a picture of highly surcharged political atmosphere with an array of state...

3 April 2023 6:54 PM

Nation

KCR is a failed state-level leader: Bandi

BRS launched in an attempt to bring together members of the ‘tukde gang’ who are against unity and development of...

9 Dec 2022 6:54 PM

Opinion

DC Edit | Freebies: It’s not courts’ call

It is not the remit of the judiciary to suggest the making of laws to curb the runaway practice in Indian democracy of...

12 Aug 2022 6:47 PM

Nation

Indian democracy is global public good; if that cracks, it will cause...

Rahul said that there are two different designs of governance at play in India, one that stifles voices and the other...

21 May 2022 7:07 AM

Opinion

DC Edit | Univs should be open to all ideological discourse

If the universities had ended with being a platform for exchange of ideas, India’s course of history would have been...

20 May 2022 7:21 PM

Opinion

DC Edit | Bulldozer raj is wrong, laws must be followed

There is a certain irresistible appeal for the frontbenchers amongst the cineaste to whistle at such a Robin Hood...

14 April 2022 6:41 PM

Opinion

Pavan K. Varma | Sans wall against despotism, govt cherrypicking...

In this process, the interests of the State become conterminous with the personal interests of the political leader

2 April 2022 9:54 PM

Opinion

Aakar Patel | Why voters still re-elect govts despite failures on...

This piece is not about the parties and elections but about the voter, and why they vote in the way they do

7 March 2022 10:02 PM

Opinion

Mohan Guruswamy | On secularism, conversion and the nature of religion

The acceptance of democracy as a way of life implies that we accept that we hold certain rights to be inalienable

22 Feb 2022 9:06 PM

Opinion

Can democracy survive the Big Tech onslaught?

Big Tech, in a way unimaginable even a couple of decades ago, today has a stranglehold on information dissemination &...

27 Jan 2022 9:52 PM

Opinion

Aakar Patel | India's image in free fall, but govt in denial on real...

The fact is that we do very well on political rights, and in fact the government gets 3/4 on transparency, which is...

9 March 2021 5:55 AM