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January 26, 2020, 7:30 PM IST
An anvil, of course, is a block of iron, on whose flat top a piece of metal is hammered and battered to give it the desired shape and give it strength. Anvils went out of…
January 26, 2020, 7:30 PM IST
January 14, 2020, 3:39 PM IST
There has been a rising clamour for the government to set up a new development financial institution (DFI), to provide long-term capital for infrastructure projects. The demand sounds reasonable: after all, banks, with a large…
January 14, 2020, 3:39 PM IST
January 5, 2020, 8:29 PM IST
The immediate fallout of the US killing of General Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds force and popular orchestrator of Iranian fronts across West Asia and North Africa, is the clear and…
January 5, 2020, 8:29 PM IST
December 31, 2019, 9:31 PM IST
Can we blithely wish anyone a happy new year, when a pall of menace hangs over us without any sign of remission? Grim, the situation undoubtedly is, for those who wish to live in a…
December 31, 2019, 9:31 PM IST
December 30, 2019, 7:33 PM IST
While the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests rage and grab public attention, the government is going ahead with measures in the economic sphere that end up doing more harm than good. Take two measures: zero merchant…
December 30, 2019, 7:33 PM IST
December 10, 2019, 10:54 PM IST
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) is not so much about passing a law in Parliament as about political strategy for the future, particularly the next Lok Sabha elections in 2024. Political parties would do well…
December 10, 2019, 10:54 PM IST
October 15, 2019, 11:11 PM IST
The Maharashtra and Haryana elections would be a walkover for BJP, never mind all the economic pain — goes the consensus. It rings true, given the disarray within the Opposition. However, this air of being…
October 15, 2019, 11:11 PM IST
October 13, 2019, 11:19 AM IST
Mamallapuram celebrates the well-earned sobriquet Mamallan, meaning Great Wrestler, of the Seventh Century Pallava king Narasimhavarman 1. So, it might seem appropriate as a venue for leaders of Asia’s biggest two powers to grapple with…
October 13, 2019, 11:19 AM IST
October 6, 2019, 4:29 PM IST
Having gambled and lost his kingdom, his brothers, himself and his wife, Yudhishthira has become a slave of his cousins, the Kauravas. Dusshasan holds Draupadi by the hair and drags her into the sabha, the…
October 6, 2019, 4:29 PM IST
October 1, 2019, 11:36 PM IST
Gandhi, the author of My Experiments with Truth, is now the object of many experiments with truth. In the current political discourse, Gandhi is either the agent of Swachhata, sanitation, or an Ambedkarite straw man….
October 1, 2019, 11:36 PM IST
September 17, 2019, 11:43 PM IST
As India develops, the role of its states in driving growth has become vital. The current centralising tendencies in the polity will harm the economy, besides generating centripetal forces. Within the dismal realm of economics,…
September 17, 2019, 11:43 PM IST
September 3, 2019, 8:42 AM IST
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” This is the original statement of the Blackstone Ratio, formulated in the 18th century and still a building block of Anglo-Saxon, and India’s,…
September 3, 2019, 8:42 AM IST
July 9, 2019, 11:22 PM IST
Quit the sulk, Rahul Gandhi, or quit politics. The party has to gear up for a slew of assembly elections, not to speak of staving off toppling efforts in Karnataka, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. This…
July 9, 2019, 11:22 PM IST
June 16, 2019, 12:53 PM IST
The doctors’ strike across the country is not just about Mamata Banerjee or the BJP’s attempt to take advantage of the strike to erode the Trinamool Congress’s support in Bengal. Doctors are on strike not…
June 16, 2019, 12:53 PM IST
May 17, 2019, 3:28 PM IST
Did gentle Dr Jekyll agree with violent Mr Hyde? He did not. But the two were one and the same person. Does the BJP agree with its Bhopal candidate, Pragya Singh Thakur, who celebrates the…
May 17, 2019, 3:28 PM IST
April 30, 2019, 10:55 PM IST
Ujjwala has been a brilliant scheme from a political point of view: it has covered 7.15 crore households across the country, touched women directly, empowered their communities, with lower-caste households sensing an improvement in their…
April 30, 2019, 10:55 PM IST
April 12, 2019, 5:58 PM IST
Attorney General Venugopal made some ludicrous arguments in defence of the electoral bonds whose validity is under challenge in the Supreme Court. Why on earth, he wondered, would voters care who funds political parties? After…
April 12, 2019, 5:58 PM IST
April 3, 2019, 7:33 PM IST
Why all this fuss over NaMo TV? Is there another kind of TV, to begin with? And why should Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress be the ones to complain? It should be the existing…
April 3, 2019, 7:33 PM IST
March 26, 2019, 11:23 AM IST
Is Rahul Gandhi’s minimum income scheme for the poor breakthrough policy innovation to eradicate poverty or a path to fiscal and economic ruin? Or, alternatively, is it a hoax, on par with Narendra Modi’s promise…
March 26, 2019, 11:23 AM IST
March 19, 2019, 11:12 PM IST
Speaking at the 80th raising day of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), National Security Adviser Ajit Doval said that the nation’s leadership is capable of reacting to any terror attack, and will decide if…
March 19, 2019, 11:12 PM IST
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