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The author is a Delhi-based commentator and analyst

Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

Indira's legacy: A role model for Modi?

Indira Gandhi learnt from her father's benign shortcomings -- idealism, indecision, romantic internationalism.

31 Oct 2017 12:15 AM IST

Former Intelligence Bureau director Dineshwar Sharma said he would go to Kashmir in eight-to-ten days. (Photo: ANI)

Delhi's feeble steps on J&K not enough

The Congress and BJP should keep out of Kashmir politics.

25 Oct 2017 1:08 AM IST

The Green Tribunal observed that the ecology of the area surrounding the Taj Mahal cannot be compromised. (Photo: PTI)

Monumental neurosis: Taj is India's heritage

Hindu right-wingers need not be liberal secularists, and they should not be.

18 Oct 2017 1:25 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the inauguration of the Golden Jubilee Year Celebrations of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Modi needs to govern quietly, stop bragging

Whether it is convincing or not, it showed that Modi was seriously engaging with his critics.

10 Oct 2017 2:25 AM IST

Congress Vice President, Rahul Gandhi at Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley, California. (Photo: PTI)

Is there a change in the nation's mood?

The BJP president soon recovered his poise and told the media in Jharkhand that he wouldn't respond to Rahul Gandhi's...

19 Sept 2017 12:48 AM IST

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seventh left, President Ramnath Kovind, eighth left and Vice President Venkiah Naidu, nineth left pose with the newly sworn-in ministers after a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India. (Photo: AP)

Will optics be enough to make govt efficient?

The BJP is mostly in a self-congratulatory mood, and Prime Minister Modi leads the way. There is very little of...

4 Sept 2017 12:32 AM IST

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, 50, had been convicted on Friday of raping the two women at the sprawling headquarters of his hugely popular Dera Sacha Sauda sect in Haryana, in a case dating back more than 15 years. (Photo: AFP/File)

To keep cults in check, closer scrutiny needed

In India, most people turn to religion for whatever reason, and many of them fall into the hands of fake gurus.

29 Aug 2017 12:30 AM IST

A five-judge Supreme Court Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar will on Tuesday pronounce a verdict on pleas challenging the validity of triple talaq (divorce) in the Muslim community. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

For Muslim women, SC verdict is a revolution

There is enough fuzziness in the legal definitions and justifications for triple talaq.

23 Aug 2017 12:32 AM IST

A boy waves the Indian tri-colour flags at Mehrangarh Fort road on the eve of Independence Day in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. (Photo: PTI)

India at 70: Still young, restless, beset by crisis

India remained an optimist's country despite widespread poverty and illiteracy.

15 Aug 2017 12:25 AM IST

Security person stand guard after militants opened fire on the Amarnath Yatra in which some pilgrims were killed in Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo: PTI)

In Kashmir, it's vital to keep democracy going

In the past year and a half, terrorists have been targeting the camps of the armed forces, whether in Pathankot in...

12 July 2017 2:25 AM IST

NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind (Photo: AP)

A symbolic dalit duel & democratic dynamics

The Indian polity has changed in a great many ways, and dalits can't be used as political pawns any longer.

26 Jun 2017 12:36 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: AP)

Modi's biggest test: To get the economy going

Mr Modi's critics and detractors may want to blame his government for the failure to spur growth. In the first two...

14 Jun 2017 12:40 AM IST