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How Odisha resisted Muslim onslaught for centuries—give credit to monarch Jagannath

Ashok Kumar Bal - 18 January, 2022

How often does Nandan Nilekani check his email? A new book tells you about addiction

Nandan Nilekani - 18 January, 2022

Adi Shankaracharya was sent in response to Buddha to bring people’s faith back to god

Nityanand Charan Das - 16 January, 2022

Partition, my grandmother’s pain drove me to collect utensils as memory: Vikas Khanna

Vikas Khanna - 16 January, 2022

Studies show joblessness leads to yearning for strong-armed leadership. Look at Gorakhpur

Debashish Roy Chowdhury - 15 January, 2022

In ‘To Kill A Democracy’, Debashish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane write there are 3 million people in Gorakhpur, yet it has just one engineering college and university.

‘Sorry, sir. Your child with cerebral palsy can’t study in our school’ is a staple in Jaipur

Shikhi Sharma - 13 January, 2022

In 'Unbeatable', Shikhi Sharma documents the stories of parents with children afflicted with cerebral palsy and dyslexia.

4,000 girls go missing in Bengal each year. Floods, evictions, Ganga have their own role

Parimal Bhattacharya - 12 January, 2022

In ‘Field Notes from a Waterborne Land’, Parimal Bhattacharya writes about impact of natural calamities on school dropouts in Bengal, especially girls.

Can’t expect world to eat greens, Vivekananda said meat was needed to make Indians mighty

Sankar - 12 January, 2022

In ‘Vivekananda’, Sankar writes that Vivekananda did not believe in the concept of vegetarianism for the hardworking poor of India.

Ask Rahul Gandhi about Emergency and he calls it a ‘mistake’. And Modi is ‘fascist’

Arvind Narrain - 11 January, 2022

In 'India's Undeclared Emergency', Arvind Narrain draws a parallel between Indira Gandhi's 1975 era and the present.

This is how I made Indian CEOs understand Northeast migration problem

Sudeep Chakravarti - 9 January, 2022

In ‘Eastern Gate’, Sudeep Chakravarti asks what would happen to India’s NE if Bangladesh were to suffer a series of storms due to global warming?

India was once the cradle of civilization. Now it’s a ‘chalta hai’ country because of ‘jugaad’

Ramesh Venkateswaran - 8 January, 2022

In ‘The Happiness Trail’, Ramesh Venkateswaran lays down five easy-to-follow approaches to a happy and successful life, which he calls the five I’s.

Long before Gandhi, Godse pulled out a knife to stab Mahasabha chief for allying with Nehru

Dhirendra K Jha - 6 January, 2022

In ‘Gandhi’s Assassin’, Dhirendra Jha writes that Godse believed the Hindu Mahasabha should stay away from the government to establish a Hindu rashtra.

Indian sex writers are too embarrassed to write well. Unlike good sex, they lack passion

Suresh Menon - 5 January, 2022

In 'Why Don't You Write Something I Might Read?', Suresh Menon says Indian sex writing evokes either laughter or pity.

Discipline can’t override justice. India needs independent prosecution within military

Navdeep Singh - 4 January, 2022

In 'March to Justice', Navdeep Singh says military justice can be improved with independent trials. But India has none of it.

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Opinion

Ladakh standoff cost China more. Look at its ‘chocolate soldiers’, big tech failure

Ashok Kumar - 19 January, 2022

Despite a host of ‘peace agreements’ over the last 3 decades, China’s costs have been mostly intangible but intensely damaging and acute.

With Silverline railway project, Pinarayi Vijayan’s makeover as middle-class messiah is complete

19 January, 2022

Why $69 billion Activision deal could be a blunder for Microsoft

19 January, 2022

Economy

Reliance buys robotics startup Addverb for Rs 1,000 crore to fuel tech ambitions

Saritha Rai - 18 January, 2022

Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest person, is investing in technology as competition from rivals such as Amazon intensifies in India’s booming e-commerce market.

Book Excerpts

How Odisha resisted Muslim onslaught for centuries—give credit to monarch Jagannath

How often does Nandan Nilekani check his email? A new book tells you about addiction

Adi Shankaracharya was sent in response to Buddha to bring people’s faith back to god

Partition, my grandmother’s pain drove me to collect utensils as memory: Vikas Khanna

On Camera

YourTurn

Guidelines for YourTurn submissions

Opinion

Ladakh standoff cost China more. Look at its ‘chocolate soldiers’, big tech failure

With Silverline railway project, Pinarayi Vijayan’s makeover as middle-class messiah is complete

Why $69 billion Activision deal could be a blunder for Microsoft

Economy

Reliance buys robotics startup Addverb for Rs 1,000 crore to fuel tech ambitions

Defence

Indian firm gets foothold in prized global ‘kamikaze’ and armed drones market

National Interest

Read my lips, I’m hurting, says Pakistan’s National Security Policy. What it means for India

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