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Jawaharlal Nehru
Manish Tewari | Why South Asia in dire need of statesmanship
South Asia requires statespersons who can look beyond the horizon to the future that beckons rather than remain stuck in the history
04 Jun 2023 12:22 AM
AA Edit | Much ado about ‘Sengol’
The symbol’s value is just one of historicity as it was associated with India’s tryst with destiny as a nation freed of the colonial yoke
27 May 2023 12:54 AM
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Amidst waffling over China, US-India embrace deepens
It is India’s permanent dilemma that complacency about foreign policy alternatives leads to a fatal complacency about defence
11 May 2023 12:05 AM
AA Edit | PM’s Mann Ki Baat sets one-of-a-kind milestone
Mann Ki Baat must be one of the world’s most prolific, versatile and engaging political conversations
01 May 2023 12:15 AM
Praveen Davar | How Ambedkar ensured Hindu society’s reform despite all odds
A saffron-clad swami went to the extent of saying “an ‘untouchable’ had no business meddling in matters normally the preserve of Brahmins”
14 Apr 2023 12:05 AM
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | English Hinglish: Taking liberties with language…
Hinglish, a cherished reminder of the Raj that we love to hate, will forever remain India’s pride and glory
11 Apr 2023 12:00 AM
Mohan Guruswamy | Indus waters: Yawning gap between threat and reality
World Bank brokered the IWT between India and Pak after many years of intense negotiations to allocate the waters of the Indus river basin
08 Mar 2023 12:05 AM
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | CAA not the real problem, but NRC is open to abuse
The NRC is another matter. Not because its wording is offensive but because its provisions can be abused
01 Feb 2023 12:00 AM
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Strengthen India’s future: You can’t change the past
The communal angle looms largest because it threatens life and stability
18 Jan 2023 12:05 AM
Dinesh C. Sharma | How the Nizam in 1947 waged propaganda war against India
The propaganda war and political lobbying did result in some gains for the beleaguered Nizam
04 Jan 2023 12:00 AM
Abhijit Bhattacharyya | 1962 to 2022: No lessons learnt on tackling China
One only hopes that 60 years from now, history won’t repeat itself in 2082
16 Dec 2022 12:00 AM
Aakar Patel | Sardar worked differently from Nehru, but had the same ideals
There is a belief that Sardar Patel would have “sorted out” Pakistan and we would never have had the Kashmir problem
06 Dec 2022 12:05 AM
Mohan Guruswamy | Are India and China going to be rivals for all time?
The roots of our problem with China go back a couple of hundred years when Emperor Napoleon and Tsar Alexander met in July 1807
06 Dec 2022 12:00 AM
Mohan Guruswamy | The 1962 India-China war: In dubious battle
Governmental decision-making still characterised by ad hocism and a tendency to grandstand
22 Nov 2022 12:00 AM
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Any corner can be cut in a ‘land of make-believe’
The handful FIRs that were filed in the Morbi bridge collapse illustrates that there is no credible mechanism to punish the guilty
09 Nov 2022 12:00 AM
Anand K. Sahay | ‘Loyalists’ and Congress: Will polls change party?
Whatever the party’s many failings, it is hard to see the Congress as a straitjacketed Stalinist outfit in which free speech is frowned upon
13 Oct 2022 12:00 AM
AA Edit | India needed to hear Modi’s ode to past PMs
The divide was exploited by the BJP under PM Modi, even exacerbated by his party, but was not created by them
16 Apr 2022 12:00 AM
Singh hits out at Modi for blaming Nehru for all ills
'Despite being in power for seven and a half years, the BJP is still blaming the country's first PM, Nehru, for people's problems,' he said
18 Feb 2022 1:46 AM
Mohan Guruswamy | Nehru vs Patel: On how to conciliate, and not divide
Modi has invested hugely in creating the illusion that the Congress Party’s preferred leader was the Sardar and that Nehru was imposed on it
02 Nov 2021 12:00 AM
Book review | Strange life of a poem that revealed Buddha to world
Jairam Ramesh’s Light of Asia, there can be no doubt, is an altogether satisfying and successful experiment
10 Oct 2021 10:21 AM
Columns
As we inch towards 2024 and the next general election, no surprise that even a deadly train wreck is fodder for political jousts
The ‘corrected’ order ensures Mr Sinha’s continued regular service for one year but failed to specify that it superseded the earlier order
The delimitation exercise now underway will reduce the weightage in Parliament of the states that did better
Assad’s arrival in Jeddah was no tepid entry.