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The writer is Dawn�??s correspondent in New Delhi

A blanket of haze over Delhi thickened this morning with the national capitals pollution levels increasing overnight by around 50 points, taking the overall air quality index to 459. (Photo: ANI)

Severe to very poor: Air quality is a metaphor for political...

The Delhi Met Bureau may have actually made a deeply philosophical observation with its imagery applicable to several...

20 Nov 2019 2:36 AM IST

Sikhs across the world are celebrating Guru Nanaks 550th anniversary today, and the fervour is enhanced by the opening of a key road between Pakistan and India that leads to his shrine in Kartarpur in Pakistan. (Photo:AP, Representational)

Few faiths can match Sikhism's vivid rainbow of eclectic heroes

Allama Iqbal saw him as the seer who raised hopes for India's social enlightenment after the country exiled Buddhism to...

13 Nov 2019 12:40 AM IST

Doubts and dilemmas of the soldier in post-colonial South Asian...

The RSS had become the spine of his movement, feigning as it did its transient passion for India's secular and socialist...

23 Oct 2019 2:03 AM IST

From Wuhan to Chennai: Reading the tea leaves...

The Chinese plan for the worst that could come their way in pursuit of critical objectives.

16 Oct 2019 1:06 AM IST

President Donald Trump meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the United Nations General Assembly, in New York. (Photo: AP)

Given the BJP's inverse Midas touch, should Trump worry?

Within a year of Khomeini's rule, Vajpayee's emissaries were standing with heads bowed in front of the new helmsman of...

26 Sept 2019 12:27 AM IST

UPA chairperson and former president of Congress Sonia Gandhi said that her party is exposing fraud and corruption of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the people associated with him. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Can Congress follow Indira's 1969 plan to revitalise itself?

The Congress cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds anymore.

18 Sept 2019 1:59 AM IST

The MEAs comments came a day after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said he will not allow Pakistani soil to be used for terror. (Photo:AP)

Its allies don't care for Kashmir, so Pak needs to reinvent its...

India leaned on a subtler ploy and used the British Commonwealth route to tackle domestic Marxists.

11 Sept 2019 1:40 AM IST

Romila Thapar and JNU: Can India's Left go to the rescue?

The octogenarian opposed narrow Muslim demands in the 1970s to change the secular character of AMU.

4 Sept 2019 1:25 AM IST

Jawaharlal Nehru

The revenge of Sukhi Lala: Congress revival hope lives on

In a monsoon-fed agricultural economy, both symbols represented the productive and political power of the peasant.

28 Aug 2019 1:21 AM IST

US President Donald Trump greets Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House in Washington DC on Monday. (Photo: AFP)

Can Donald Trump be trusted as neutral umpire on Kashmir?

Some do seem to have figured out Donald Trump, and American Democrats are not among them.

31 July 2019 1:43 AM IST

July 20, 1969 Photo when astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). - On July 21, 1969, US astronaut Neil Armstrong is the first man to step onto the Moon, his teammate Edwin Aldrin joining him around 20 minutes later. (Photo: AFP | File)

Quest for moon rooted in politics that threatens earth

There were two sides to Armstrong's walk on the moon 50 years ago.

24 July 2019 1:41 AM IST

The 1983 and 2011 Indian cricket teams that won the world cup encompassed what Rahul Dravid would call the countrys cultural colours, which were just about missing in Virat Kohlis social mix.

Link between cricket and the nation was neither natural nor inevitable

And why forget that even the West Indies inducted a white player in the squad against New Zealand in the 1970s.

17 July 2019 2:24 AM IST