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Congress president Rahul Gandhi at Parliament House on Wednesday. (Photo: Pritam bandyopadhyay)

With new chief, can Congress redefine itself?

India does not have as democratic a political system inside its parties as the UK and the US.

14 July 2019 12:05 AM IST

Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy (Photo: PTI)

Lack of innovation is a problem in India

There is other material that also indicates where we stand in comparison to the rest of the world on invention and...

7 July 2019 6:54 AM IST

Sources said that though junior level officials from both sides were having flag meetings.

When Pakistan exalts Indian heroes

Knowledge of this will confuse most Indians because our understanding is coloured by our religious nationalism.

30 Jun 2019 12:27 AM IST

US President Donald Trump on Sunday (local time) slammed Russia, Syria and Iran for killing many innocent civilians. (Photo:AP)

Israel insists that the US be tough on Iran

Donald Trump said he had cancelled the attack after being told that 150 Iranians would die in this attack.

23 Jun 2019 1:42 AM IST

The presence of the Indian paramilitary on the streets of Srinagar has become depressingly normal. Uniformed men carrying assault rifles and speaking Tamil, Bengali, Hindi and Punjabi keep watch over the locals.(Photo: ANI)

What is the ground reality in Kashmir?

The dehumanising of Kashmiris has happened over a long period and is not the doing of this government alone and this is...

16 Jun 2019 9:21 AM IST

Wipro Chief Azim Premji

Azim Premji is a philanthropist role model

The idea of charity in that period was unknown though the Church took a cut of the income of all who could give.

9 Jun 2019 12:10 AM IST

The entire West Bengal administration is working for the ruling TMC, BJP President Amit Shah said. (Photo: ANI)

Kaun banega BJP president?

The selection of the diplomat Subrahmanyam Jaishankar as foreign minister was not even anticipated by the media.

2 Jun 2019 12:15 AM IST

Elections are being held in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 seats in Haryana, eights constituencies each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, seven seats in Delhi and four in Jharkhand. (Photo: twitter/ANI)

Assess, rectify, reflect on how far we strayed

The defeated leaders will not be short of advice, particularly from the media on what went wrong and what they should...

26 May 2019 6:51 AM IST

In India, opinion polls start pouring down a couple of months prior to the elections, projections keep taking different shapes and colours till the exit polls.

I voted to keep majoritarianism at bay

Civilised people do not do it, civilised people do not condone it, or justify it or ignore it.

19 May 2019 4:54 AM IST

Jawaharlal Nehru (Photo PTI)

Hard times ahead for Nehru reform legacy

Ambedkar wanted to introduce other changes, all of them relating to the inheritance rights of the women of the family.

12 May 2019 12:00 AM IST

BJP's voteshare game focused on Hindu votes

The BJP under Mr Modi appears to be upending this tradition in North Indian states.

5 May 2019 12:53 AM IST

The Congress is yet to declare its candidate on the Gandhinagar seat, where Shah is the BJP candidate. (Photo: file)

Congress' homework rebuilding the party

All in all the BJP is in control of one of the most powerful political machines in the world, in terms of people,...

28 April 2019 4:48 AM IST