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The Opposition INDIA alliance has announced the names of 14 anchors whose programmes their spokespersons will boycott. No reason was cited when the list was put out but various Opposition leaders have said this was the “WhatsApp group of BJP Media Cell.” The arguments against...

Consistency in government decisions is a fundamental principle of responsible governance. Each decision of the government is presupposed to have been taken after careful consideration and thereby carries significant weight. However, the recent abrupt reversal of a key appointment by Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal...

Translators of literary masterpieces were destined to live in obscurity without getting any recognition for their labour of love both in academic and monetary terms. That their work also rises to the stature of art, though certainly not at par with that of the original...

The results of the recently held bypolls in seven Assembly segments in six states across north, south and eastern parts of the country, in a way, foreshadow the shape of things to come. In the next Lok Sabha polls in 2024 the ruling BJP will...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar was both correct and wrong when he insisted that the decision of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping not to participate in the ongoing G20 summit had nothing to do with India. He is right because...

A report was published on Saturday, 9 September, with the headline “Joint sitting of both Houses to bid farewell to old Parliament building?” The question mark is normal, because few know what the agenda of the special session is. The report reads: “Just ahead of...

In the recent turn of events in Manipur, it seems that the N Biren Singh government is rolling the dice with a high stakes move. It has appointed a retired Army colonel, Nectar Sanjenbam as the new Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP). While the situation...

In a bizarre turn of events, Pope Francis has been caught in a crossfire of sorts in the raging war between Russia and Ukraine. He is solely to blame for unwittingly championing Russia’s cause and helping President Vladimir Putin reinforce Russia’s territorial, spiritual and cultural...

Surprise, stunt and secrecy have characterised the style of functioning of the current national BJP leadership. The same trick is being tried once again in the name of introduction of a system of “One Nation, One Election” at the fag end of the present Lok...

I have a novel out this month, and also an event that discusses the role of fiction writing in engaging with the material world. The lawyers who represented Rahul Gandhi in his case in Surat have also just published a work of fiction titled “Theory...