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The issue of the Gyanvapi mosque has now become live and will likely remain with us for years if not decades, just as Ayodhya did. What should we anticipate? In an interview with the journalist Barkha Dutt, the vice chancellor of Hyderabad’s National University of...

When unsure, fall back on the old and reliable. The Centre has apparently decided not to appoint officers from the Indian Legal Service (ILS) or law specialists as the Union Secretary of the Law Ministry. It has chosen to rely on the old workhorse, the...

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed what many had feared but were reluctant to admit: the continued failure to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions means that global warming will likely exceed 1.5° Celsius, relative to pre-industrial levels. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has...

The US as also the rest of the world are now busy dissecting how an 18-year-old white man could kill 10 people, mostly Black, in a cold-blooded racist shooting May 14 at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and show to the world his heinous...

Rarely does a journalist get the respect and recognition that Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Aqleh, the 51-year-old Palestinian American journalist, got before she was gunned down allegedly by Israeli armed forces last week. Shireen had become a role model for Palestinian women for her intrepid...

The irony of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in February is that the enemy he wanted to ward off from its border by declaring war against one country is now all set to come closer to its border because of that very...

The Supreme Court has put a stay on the sedition law, and the Union government has also said the prime minister wants colonial era legislation to be phased out. This is a good moment. The law said: “Whoever, by words, either spoken or written, or...

‘Bad’ data is all around. Even as the Centre is vigorously questioning the WHO’s Covid death figures in India during the Covid pandemic, it also has issues with information supplied by the states to the Finance Ministry for the release of funds under centrally sponsored...

The West responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with sanctions of unprecedented severity and scope. By the standard of proportionality, the reaction of the United States, the European Union, and their allies seems appropriate. Serious international aggression demands a serious response. But by the standards...

Several reports in the last few months have sounded the alarm about growing income and wealth inequality in India. The statistics cited are not wrong, but they are incomplete. And they have produced sensational, but misleading, news stories. For example, an article based on Oxfam’s...