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Three steps backwards

Even through differences in ideology, our politicians never lost their sense of conduct. Now, when maturity is needed within parties, it is replaced by an unprecedented bitterness.

Mumbai shanghaied to Patna

You cannot deny that demolitions are inhuman, and reasonable rehabilitation is a fair demand. But should there be no punishment for anybody for allowing encroachments in the first place?

It’s politics, stupid

If you read the editorials in the pink press, they all seem to have major quibbles with this week's announcement of increased FDI limits...

Falling off the Davos map

You have to give it to the Chinese for not beating around the bush when it comes to the big issues of their national...

Gennext is Gennow

Many of today's achievers in diverse fields like politics, media, sports, cinema, technology, high finance, business, NGOs, are much younger than before and nobody's complaining.

Show them the money

The great foreign policy challenge for India at this moment is to finally dump the old mindset of a lobbying nation and celebrate its new status as a buying power.

The mind of the insider

This is no political obituary of Narasimha Rao. It is to underline the fascinating situation of a man who achieved so much for India in 5 years being friendless on his way to jail.

Clarity begins at home

The last thing Manmohan Singh wants is a sense that his government is either soft or incompetent on internal security issues.

Parliament lament

India is now far from setting the standards for the newer, less mature democracies to aspire to. It has regressed.

A Bharatiya Janata Pity

Perhaps such is the bitterness at losing power, so powerful the need to live in denial, that BJP has begun to lose its balance at all levels, and, obviously in case of the Naqvi/Naidu types.

On Camera

Trump’s 28 points for Ukraine add up to a no-go at peace

Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.