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New India is again the world’s most populous nation. Old India was also the most populous place in the world till 1947 so this is in that sense not new. If the idea is that political boundaries do not affect historical nations then India has...

The voter data theft case in Karnataka (reported in this column on December 29, 2022) has come alive again, just when the state is about to go to polls. A probe by the Election Commission, conducted by IAS officer Amlan Aditya Biswas, Regional Commissioner, Bengaluru...

The most astounding aspect of the sensational and damning disclosures about the 2019 Pulwama attack made by former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik against the BJP-led government at the Centre and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the government’s pregnant silence and refusal to...

The irony of the horrific custody killing of Atiq Ahmed, the UP don-turned-politician and former Member of Parliament along with his brother Ashraf in the presence of police by three criminals is that the two brothers had sought help from the courts for their security...

The brutality of the military junta in Myanmar has assumed such proportions that even an international body like the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), which does not interfere with the internal affairs of its member states, has voiced its condemnation. The latest instance...

There are two directions in which our present enthusiasm for majoritarian politics can go. I have long thought that there is only one place we can land up in, and we will come to that briefly at the end, but there is another view that...

Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi has trodden on many toes in the state government and the ruling party, be it withholding important bills or speaking his mind on Centre-state relations. Some may say that the situation seems to mirror a similar tussle in neighbouring Kerala,...

Reconstructing past events and deeds, in other words, rewriting history is not an easy task. It is fraught with risks. The danger that the task poses is misrepresentation and misinterpretation of facts that distort the truth and give a coloured vision of what happened in...

India has much to learn from the current Taiwan scenario. The manner in which China is moving in matters related to that island nation is also indicative of its intent. It is quite possible that, instead of getting into a full scale war like Russia...

The Future of Life Institute’s open letter demanding a six-month precautionary pause on artificial-intelligence development has already been signed by thousands of high-profile figures, including Elon Musk. The signatories worry that AI labs are “locked in an out-of-control race” to develop and deploy increasingly powerful...