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A reporter recalls how the brutal Mangalore pub attack changed her forever

When I covered the Mangalore pub attack nine years ago, I even stopped to ponder: was my cultural upbringing wrong?

Good intentions, bad HR practice: Inducting civil service aspirants into the armed forces

If the armed forces are restructured on modern lines, it will enable them to undertake the complex multiple tasks that is expected of them, with lesser manpower.

The Maharashtra farmers’ march reminded us of what Tagore & Premchand tried teaching us

Our encounter with farmers has a quality of suddenness, as if it was not meant to be.

Se La tunnel to Make in India: Key projects that will be hit by Army’s rupee crunch

Se La tunnel, security for Army bases, war reserves, Make in India, vehicles and surface-to-air missiles are just some important projects that’ll suffer.

It’s not the rise of China we should worry about, but the decline of the US

The US displays a worrying level of unpredictability, and at its centre is a man behaving like the Red Queen as he shouts “off with his head” at all.

We, the thieving people

Give us a chosen few of ‘unimpeachable’ integrity,arm them with the most undemocratic law made outside Parliament.

Arvind Chitra Katha

Don’t say he didn’t warn us. Read his scary little manifesto, in which it all starts with a king, a courtesan and their gram sabha.

Nota for 1984 – Why AAP lost Punjab

AAP lost because it took a communal view of the state, stirred old anger, and embraced radicals.

UP experiment may not defeat BJP in 2019, but complacency may do it

The results come as a warning for the BJP, but to its credit, the party is quick to learn from its mistakes, and has...

The Kashmiri man who had the courage to call out a terrorist

Alleged ISIS terrorist Eisa Fazili, killed in a shootout this week, is fast becoming the Burhan Wani of 2018. But one voice in the Valley is challenging his celebration.

On Camera

I turned up at Asha Bhosle’s door as a fan. She invited me home

The words she wrote in our autograph book echo in my mind now: 'Mar kar bhi jo jeete hain, wohi jeete hain'—The only lives worth living are those remembered long after death.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.