EVM verification plea to be heard by other SC bench

New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India...

Delhi’s perennial air crisis: Time for sustainable solution

Severe and “Hazardous” two words that flashed...

Yogi Adityanath Honors Atal Bihari Vajpayee As A Beacon Of Good Governance

On Thursday, December 19, 2024, Uttar Pradesh...

M.J. Akbar

Invited for bitter coffee after the bloated meal

If former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao had been a pupil at a toff English school like Eton or Rugby, he would have made...

Invited for bitter coffee after the bloated meal

If former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao had been a pupil at a toff English school like Eton or Rugby, he would have made...

Invited for bitter coffee after the bloated meal

If former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao had been a pupil at a toff English school like Eton or Rugby, he would have made...

The assault on co-existence

What is common between the criminal complaint against Rabbi David Goldberg for circumcising Jewish boys in Hof, Germany; the ban on minarets in Switzerland;...

The assault on co-existence

What is common between the criminal complaint against Rabbi David Goldberg for circumcising Jewish boys in Hof, Germany; the ban on minarets in Switzerland;...

The assault on co-existence

What is common between the criminal complaint against Rabbi David Goldberg for circumcising Jewish boys in Hof, Germany; the ban on minarets in Switzerland;...

Another fuse in a firestorm

There is just one more fuse waiting to be lit to turn the fires from Khyber to Maghreb into an unprecedented conflagration: A unilateral...

Another fuse in a firestorm

There is just one more fuse waiting to be lit to turn the fires from Khyber to Maghreb into an unprecedented conflagration: A unilateral...

Another fuse in a firestorm

There is just one more fuse waiting to be lit to turn the fires from Khyber to Maghreb into an unprecedented conflagration: A unilateral...

A perfect storm of stupidity

Which is the greater crime in public life, corruption or stupidity? Take your time over the answer. If corruption were a political death sentence,...

A perfect storm of stupidity

Which is the greater crime in public life, corruption or stupidity? Take your time over the answer. If corruption were a political death sentence,...

A perfect storm of stupidity

Which is the greater crime in public life, corruption or stupidity? Take your time over the answer. If corruption were a political death sentence,...

Change does not always send a preview

The political scientist wonders whether a pendulum swing has not destabilised the democratic clock. The regional politician believes that a Third Front Prime Minister...

Change does not always send a preview

The political scientist wonders whether a pendulum swing has not destabilised the democratic clock. The regional politician believes that a Third Front Prime Minister...

Change does not always send a preview

The political scientist wonders whether a pendulum swing has not destabilised the democratic clock. The regional politician believes that a Third Front Prime Minister...

The price of a womb

The government headed by Dr Manmohan Singh and Mrs Sonia Gandhi has laid down its code of governance. You can sell a fertile womb...

The price of a womb

The government headed by Dr Manmohan Singh and Mrs Sonia Gandhi has laid down its code of governance. You can sell a fertile womb...

The price of a womb

The government headed by Dr Manmohan Singh and Mrs Sonia Gandhi has laid down its code of governance. You can sell a fertile womb...

The remote has become a neighbour

Technology has liberated prejudice and its consequence, rumour, from accountability. When the village was still a mere village, and had not gone global, prejudice...

The remote has become a neighbour

Technology has liberated prejudice and its consequence, rumour, from accountability. When the village was still a mere village, and had not gone global, prejudice...

The remote has become a neighbour

Technology has liberated prejudice and its consequence, rumour, from accountability. When the village was still a mere village, and had not gone global, prejudice...

When to throw away half a dictionary

Just as a journalist cannot claim the power of a politician, a politician cannot presume the liberty of a journalist. Perhaps the preeminent BJP leader L.K....

When to throw away half a dictionary

Just as a journalist cannot claim the power of a politician, a politician cannot presume the liberty of a journalist. Perhaps the preeminent BJP leader L.K....

When to throw away half a dictionary

Just as a journalist cannot claim the power of a politician, a politician cannot presume the liberty of a journalist. Perhaps the preeminent BJP leader L.K....

Hobson’s Choice: It’s either Olympics or politics

Mr Jeremiah and Ms Cassandra have long been publicly moaning that the difference between news and entertainment has either disappeared or fast getting there....

Hobson’s Choice: It’s either Olympics or politics

Mr Jeremiah and Ms Cassandra have long been publicly moaning that the difference between news and entertainment has either disappeared or fast getting there....

Hobson’s Choice: It’s either Olympics or politics

Mr Jeremiah and Ms Cassandra have long been publicly moaning that the difference between news and entertainment has either disappeared or fast getting there....

It’s finger-licking good

That infallible icon of contemporary mores, Oprah Winfrey, seems to have suffered deep and choking revulsion at the sight of Indians eating with their...

It’s finger-licking good

That infallible icon of contemporary mores, Oprah Winfrey, seems to have suffered deep and choking revulsion at the sight of Indians eating with their...

It’s finger-licking good

That infallible icon of contemporary mores, Oprah Winfrey, seems to have suffered deep and choking revulsion at the sight of Indians eating with their...

There’s an itch in the air

Nothing is meaningless in the higher reaches of power.There have been four occasions on which a national government has crumbled because an ally decided...

There’s an itch in the air

Nothing is meaningless in the higher reaches of power.There have been four occasions on which a national government has crumbled because an ally decided...

There’s an itch in the air

Nothing is meaningless in the higher reaches of power.There have been four occasions on which a national government has crumbled because an ally decided...

How foreign is foreign?

What does "foreign" mean? What exactly is foreign about a foreign country? The instant answer is "distant", but distance is deceptive. The Indian middle...

How foreign is foreign?

What does "foreign" mean? What exactly is foreign about a foreign country? The instant answer is "distant", but distance is deceptive. The Indian middle...

How foreign is foreign?

What does "foreign" mean? What exactly is foreign about a foreign country? The instant answer is "distant", but distance is deceptive. The Indian middle...

Bedtime story for political fantasists

This story is true, for I do not possess the fabulous imagination necessary to make it up. Nor, I think, do the editors of...

Bedtime story for political fantasists

This story is true, for I do not possess the fabulous imagination necessary to make it up. Nor, I think, do the editors of...

Bedtime story for political fantasists

This story is true, for I do not possess the fabulous imagination necessary to make it up. Nor, I think, do the editors of...

The dilemma of departure

What is happening to Pranab Mukherjee is cruel but not unusual. It happens to Popes, editors and chief executives as much as to former...

The dilemma of departure

What is happening to Pranab Mukherjee is cruel but not unusual. It happens to Popes, editors and chief executives as much as to former...

The dilemma of departure

What is happening to Pranab Mukherjee is cruel but not unusual. It happens to Popes, editors and chief executives as much as to former...

Giving freedom to Beti Agatha will set a new trend

Purno Sangma's daughter Agatha has neither been expelled from the NCP nor from the Manmohan Singh ministry. This despite the fact that she has...

Giving freedom to Beti Agatha will set a new trend

Purno Sangma's daughter Agatha has neither been expelled from the NCP nor from the Manmohan Singh ministry. This despite the fact that she has...

Giving freedom to Beti Agatha will set a new trend

Purno Sangma's daughter Agatha has neither been expelled from the NCP nor from the Manmohan Singh ministry. This despite the fact that she has...

Between misfortune and carelessness

To lose one Prime Minister might be considered a misfortune, but to lose two in a week seems distinctly like carelessness. It may be...

Between misfortune and carelessness

To lose one Prime Minister might be considered a misfortune, but to lose two in a week seems distinctly like carelessness. It may be...

Between misfortune and carelessness

To lose one Prime Minister might be considered a misfortune, but to lose two in a week seems distinctly like carelessness. It may be...

One dagger, and many cloaks

Mamata Banerjee understands the propensities of a cloak. She has used it often enough in her career as turbulence has forced her to leap...

One dagger, and many cloaks

Mamata Banerjee understands the propensities of a cloak. She has used it often enough in her career as turbulence has forced her to leap...

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