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The post-Covid world isn’t here yet, but with each wave we understand how different that world will be. Representational Image. (PTI)

Kishwar Desai | 3 plus 2 vs WFH, shops-to-homes: Getting ready for a post-Covid UK

Not everyone is prepared to come back to work in offices, but prefer to be somewhere in the country and logging in when required

16 Aug 2021 3:03 AM

More than 50,000 internally displaced people, a large number of them being women and children, are said to have taken refuge in parks and on pavements in Kabul which would fall at the pleasure of the insurgency leadership. (PTI)

Anand K. Sahay | A new Afghan turn that New Delhi didn’t notice

India has sufficient goodwill in diverse quarters in Afghanistan, but it gave no impression of leveraging this

16 Aug 2021 2:08 AM

India produced about 50 million tons of foodgrains in 1947, while it produces five times that much now. Representational Image. (PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Aug. 15 thoughts: We’ve done better than most; let’s not be too pessimistic

India now adds 17 per cent to world GDP growth, giving it a considerable economic heft

15 Aug 2021 3:47 AM

As India looks ahead to the 75 years of its existence as a democratic republic the one thing the people of our great nation must internalise is that eternal vigil is the price of liberty. Representational Image. (PTI)

Manish Tewari | As India is 74, pledge to perpetuate Constitution

The transient nature of Constitutions and republics is not the norm but an exception

15 Aug 2021 3:19 AM

Interestingly, there were several famous female musicians in this category, including Gauhar Jaan, followed by Kesarbai, and still later by Begum Akhtar, who commanded huge fees, sometimes exceeding those of their male counterparts. Gauhar Jaan. (DC Image)

Shailaja Khanna | Temples, AIR, YouTube: Music’s long evolution

In north India prior to 1950, the main patrons of the arts were the rulers

15 Aug 2021 2:08 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | Curry trouble in England… A storm over Indian cuisine

Language evolves and the healthier the language is, the more prone it is to adaptation, evolution, flexibility

14 Aug 2021 8:52 AM

Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Ghazni, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021. (AP/Gulabuddin Amiri)

Syed Ata Hasnain | If the Taliban succeeds, regional chaos to follow

Pakistan was forced to assist in the global war on terror against the very same elements it had created

14 Aug 2021 7:36 AM

One of the implications of climate change that has not received much attention is its impact on civilisations. Representational Image. (ANI)

Indranil Banerjie | A hotter, wetter planet to trigger new world order?

This calamitous warning comes from the latest report released earlier this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

13 Aug 2021 2:52 AM

The Kanpur riots yielded more sociological narratives of a different kind. Representational Image. (Twitter)

Saeed Naqvi | From Warsaw to Kanpur: A tale of 2 cities

Parallels between the two episodes in Warsaw and Kanpur have risks

13 Aug 2021 2:14 AM

The future looks even more turbulent — more heatwaves worsened by higher humidity, erratic rainfall, more droughts, floods and forest fires. Representational Image. (Twitter)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Health a key priority in battling climate change

India, home to millions of the world’s poorest, should be worried and better prepared

12 Aug 2021 3:51 AM

The NEP clearly states that schools should not merely condition and limit the students to mugging up facts and memorising information. Representational Image. (DC Image)

Gulshan Kaur | CBSE a leader in innovating reforms in line with NEP 2020

It aims at devising ways to disengage students from rote learning and engage them in experiential learning

12 Aug 2021 3:38 AM

Cover Page of 'Yoga of Rehab' by Anjali Talcherkar

Anjali Talcherkar | How yoga helped me transcend my drug addiction

This was when I decided to shift my focus to being fully recovered

12 Aug 2021 2:58 AM

Coelho’s characters are neither black nor white, rather they revel in being various shades of grey, yet they end up making the readers root for them. (Twitter)

Rachna Chhabria | Spooky treats that aim to please

By the time I finished reading the first story, I had built up a voracious appetite for the remaining tales

11 Aug 2021 1:42 AM

Mr Chahal is looking ahead and preparing to take on the dreaded “third wave” that is expected soon. (Twitter)

Dilip Cherian | Iqbal Chahal, ‘superbabu’ of Mumbai, & his amazing story

Iqbal Singh Chahal, a 1989 batch officer of the Maharashtra cadre, established a new benchmark in crisis management during the pandemic

11 Aug 2021 1:33 AM

Conscious that the effort required will be huge, Mamata Banerjee is insistent that time is running out to start this endeavour. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Mamata ‘antidote’ to Modi? Khela Hobe strikes a chord

It is not entirely incidental that she has taken possession of the empty slot of Opposition leader

11 Aug 2021 1:21 AM

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman would perhaps explain that the Modi government did not move the amendment to the retrospective tax amendment as it wanted it to be proved how wrong the Mukherjee move was in terms of legality. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Retro tax scrapping will not lead to spurt in FDI

Everyone felt that it was curtains at last for what is considered Pranab Mukherjee’s policy folly as finance minister in 2012

10 Aug 2021 2:18 AM

It’s not fully depleted, but it’s hard to escape the feeling that solving the problems of 2020 and 2021 will require something special which at the moment is not on view. (AFP)

Aakar Patel | Does Modi govt know what to do to tackle 2020 & 2021 problems?

The most significant aspects of this period were the nationwide lockdown

10 Aug 2021 2:07 AM

With the shrinking footprint of the United States in the region and the relentless advance of the Taliban, the real Quad in connectivity which looms on the horizon is between a Taliban-dominated Afghanistan, an expansionist China, a hostile Pakistan and Uzbekistan --the only country that is friendly to India in this group. Image from the conference 'Central and South Asia: Regional Connectivity. Challenges and Opportunities'. (Twitter)

Skand Tayal | Central Asia’s bid for access to sea may see new Quad rise

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev invited Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan as his chief guests

09 Aug 2021 3:40 AM

The ride has been rough for Ms Sitharaman. Despite her best efforts, and visible results on the fiscal front, both investment and consumption remain subdued due to persistent modest expectations about the near term. (PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | Restoring confidence is key to economic growth

It is not at all surprising that Ms Sitharaman chose to be so bold as to claim credit for the sentiment on Dalal Street

09 Aug 2021 3:09 AM

It is now two months since Prime Minister Narendra Modi reshuffled his council of ministers but the appointment of former bureaucrat/entrepreneur-turned-politician Ashwini Vaishnaw continues to be a talking point in the Capital’s political circles. (PTI)

Anita Katyal | Talks with Didi costly for Cong seniors; Kailash falls from grace

Once a favourite of home minister Amit Shah, BJP’s national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya appears to have fallen from grace

08 Aug 2021 2:47 AM

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