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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Modi, Trump take ties to a more robust level

The visuals were beamed live across India, the United States and at least half the world.

28 Feb 2020 6:25 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AFP)

Britain cannot photoshop' its cultural landscape: Johnson

PM Johnson defends Churchill, criticises 'distortion of our history'

15 Jun 2020 9:13 AM IST

Workers prepare to take down a statue of slave owner Robert Milligan at West India Quay, east London. (AP)

Authorities remove slave trader statue in London

Statues glorifying slave traders and colonialists have come into sharp focus in recent days inspired by the Black Lives...

10 Jun 2020 12:38 PM IST

Protesters throw a statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol harbour, during a Black Lives Matter protest rally, in Bristol, England. (AP)

UK protesters take down slave trader's statue, dump it in harbour

Protesters also defaced statue of former British PM Winston Churchill, crossing out his last name and painting 'was a...

8 Jun 2020 9:35 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Why democracy often turns ugly: Prejudice & hate as...

The byelection for a Member of Parliament in the Yorkshire constituency of Batley was a paradigm of this ugliness

3 July 2021 12:20 AM IST

Those parties for whom Indians voted but are not part of government are treated with disdain, as if their voters are irrelevant. Representational Image. (AP)

Aakar Patel | What India will we leave for future generations? Some...

The people are useful for the State as they give it legitimacy, but they are also seen as a nuisance that gets in the...

17 Aug 2021 2:52 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | When fantasy pretends to be history Does truth...

Gentle reader, there has always been a conflict between truth and blind nationalist interpretation of events

26 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

The warship has been built at a cost of around Rs 23,000 crore and its construction propelled India into a select group of countries having capabilities to build state-of-the-art aircraft carriers. (Indian Navy photo)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Hike Indian Navy funding to befit a rising sea...

A strong, effective Navy can't be built in a day, nor does it forgive a lackadaisical approach to maintenance or...

3 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss, leaves from Balmoral Castle in Ballater, Scotland, on September 6, 2022, after meeting with Britains Queen Elizabeth II and being invited to form a Government. (Photo: AFP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can a flexible' Liz Truss usher in Global...

Long the front-runner in the race to replace Boris Johnson, Ms Truss is the Conservatives' fourth Prime Minister since...

7 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

Fighting Retreat: Winston Churchill and India By Walter Reid. (Image: DC)

Book Review | Churchill's policy towards India was dishonest and...

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion

7 Jan 2024 12:00 AM IST

Winston Churchill (Photo: AP)

Cabinet war rooms & the rise of ideologies

Opposed to Indian Independence Churchill was also squarely responsible for the Great Bengal Famine of the 1940s.

2 Sept 2018 12:05 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May at a press conference at Downing Street in central London. (Photo: AFP)

Chess game democracy in the UK?

It's pocket science to realise that democracy means very different things in different countries and institutions.

29 Sept 2018 12:48 AM IST