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PM Modi’s US visit: Making of a high pointPremium Story
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Most striking thing about the current India-US moment is the sheer asymmetry of what the US is offering. It may not last
World Yoga Day: Yoga’s challenge on the global stage
With yoga spreading globally, the next task could be about protecting the purity of yoga and preventing trivialisation, adulteration and distortion of the science
The optimism of Modi and BidenPremium Story
By: C. Raja Mohan
C Raja Mohan writes: The two leaders have turned the traditional discourse on India-US relations in Delhi and Washington on its head. This can open the doors to technological and defence collaboration
Mahatma Gandhi would have been happy at the award it has received
By: Bhupender Yadav
Bhupender Yadav writes: Gandhi appreciated the work done by the Gita Press
Gita Press founders and Gandhi – a relationship turned sour
The figure of Gandhi bore the brunt of their belligerence since he was the only one who professed sanatan dharma, and yet kept his doors and windows open to progressive ideas. Gandhi’s constant evolution was the fly in the ointment
UGC chairman writes: Why NCERT revisions must be revisited
June 19, 2023 09:05 IST
Rationalisation in textbooks was meant to alleviate Covid stress. NCERT should assure parents that it will revisit and review
A narrative in search of dataPremium Story
June 19, 2023 14:37 IST
Statistical gymnastics won’t change the fact that India has seen its most inclusive growth since 2014
CoWIN leaks: Where’s government’s due diligence?
June 19, 2023 09:05 IST
Declaring that personal data is secure isn’t enough. Privacy guarantees need more
In Manipur, a government people don’t trustPremium Story
June 19, 2023 22:32 IST
State government has lost credibility. That needs to be acknowledged, and next steps taken
June 19, 1983, Forty Years Ago: Officer shot
June 19, 2023 06:33 IST
Inspector Rattan Chand Sharda, head of the criminal investigation agency at Phagwara in Kapurthala district of Punjab, was shot dead by two unidentified youths, alleged to be extremists.
Three years after Galwan, disengagement has not been followed by resolution
June 19, 2023 07:39 IST
At this point, as India and China continue high-level engagement at regional fora such as the SCO and BRICS groupings, it is hard to fathom what a resolution might look like.
Imphal abdication: Biren Singh government has become part of the problemSign In to read
June 19, 2023 07:38 IST
Centre needs to urgently do more, apply healing touch
Vandita Mishra writes: What about the school in Damoh? A question for the OppositionPremium Story
June 18, 2023 22:55 IST
In Madhya Pradesh, the Congress’s poll template sidesteps a besieged school
View from the neighbourhood | From the Asia Cup to Karachi’s historic elections: What the Pakistani media is talking about
June 18, 2023 19:28 IST
A weekly wrap-up of the issues being discussed and debated in India’s neighbourhood
Dear Prime Minister Modi, there are big and little fires everywhere, a healing touch is needed
June 20, 2023 11:38 IST
A vote for you is not a vote against Nehruvian ideas. Criticise Nehru all you want. But don’t reach for the lowest hanging fruit, like changing names, because you will realise one day that erasing memory limits the range of a nation’s ideas and narratives
25 years before Biparjoy, a cyclone rained havocPremium Story
June 18, 2023 18:48 IST
Mihir Bhatt, founder of the All-India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI), an Ahmedabad-based NGO who was in Kutch a day after the cyclone hit, recalls how “everything seemed cleaned up”.
My body, not my shame
June 18, 2023 09:21 IST
She was booked under the Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act over the video.
Inside Track by Coomi Kapoor: Message from aboveSign In to read
June 18, 2023 14:21 IST
A secret meeting between Arun Kumar, the RSS joint general secretary who coordinates between the BJP and the Sangh, and the BJP high command has created ripples in the party’s upper echelons.
Tavleen Singh writes: Timing spoiled Rahul’s US show… this is Modi’s moment in the sunPremium Story
June 18, 2023 18:41 IST
Rahul Gandhi could not have chosen a worse moment to try and convince the Indian diaspora in America that he is a worthy alternative to Narendra Modi
P Chidambaram writes: Modest man predicts modest growth
June 18, 2023 09:20 IST
We must re-set our goals. We must aim at achieving 8-9 growth quickly and aspire to double-digit growth. Those goals seem beyond the capacity of the present policymakers and rulers.
Congress MPs write about what they saw in Manipur: Prime Minister is busy being ‘Vishwaguru’ — he forgot to douse the flames at home
June 18, 2023 08:03 IST
Now that things have gone out of control, the Centre has initiated efforts to bring normalcy. But are they genuine? We cannot say
Adipurush controversy: Maybe it’s time we move beyond Ram-Ravan to tell new stories
June 17, 2023 19:06 IST
The live-wire that any piece of work around religion inevitably becomes, the volatility surrounding us every day when we speak of religion, points to an issue much larger than the Adipurush row
Nehru Memorial becomes PMs’ Memorial: Why New India and its new elite cannot live with ideas of its first PM
June 17, 2023 16:21 IST
An aggressive, masculine, ruthlessly competitive, majoritarian India would find it very difficult to connect with Nehru’s ideas. The ruling establishment knows very well that any attempt to erase Nehru’s legacy will not encounter any opposition from the new elite
Housing societies’ discriminatory rules: Yes, it is about caste
June 18, 2023 16:15 IST
Those rolling their eyes about ‘why get caste into this’, you are probably upper caste, and have probably never questioned why all your friends, professors, bosses, neighbours have similar surnames, very different from those of your helps, drivers, sweepers.
Wrestlers’ protest: Why don’t we care more?
June 17, 2023 11:57 IST
Our lack of engagement with protests is what continues to give the state a free pass in responding to them. Why will it bother to oust Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh when we, the masses, are inevitably going to forget about this?
June 17, 1983, Forty Years Ago: Rail Roko Protest
June 17, 2023 07:36 IST
The government has decided to suspend the movement of trains in Punjab from 6am to 6pm, in view of the apprehension of violence as a result of the threatened “rail roko” programme of the Akalis.
How an old report can pave way for central forces to stabilise Manipur
June 17, 2023 12:00 IST
The 2010 report of the Punchhi Commission offers a way to break the deadlock in the state
How India can lead multilateralism at WTO
June 17, 2023 09:07 IST
Prabhash Ranjan writes: Trade multilateralism might be out of fashion for the US, but remains of vital salience for countries like India. Hence, India, under its G20 presidency, should work with others to drive the WTO reforms agenda aimed at making trade multilateralism inclusive
Ram Madhav writes: When PM Modi meets President Biden
June 17, 2023 11:38 IST
PM Modi’s US visit next week is likely to give an impetus to trade, especially defence industrial infrastructure and critical and emerging technologies
Express View on Ravichandran Ashwin and the Test Championship: His regret
June 17, 2023 07:11 IST
The priority of every captain is to pick your best bowlers. By that logic, Ashwin should have been the first name on the team sheet. He was not, has not been. No wonder he rues the road not taken
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