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Stirrings in a hopeless land

Bihar is no more the least politically exciting state as its aspirations have moved on from the usual 'Bijli-Sadak-Pani'. It now includes 'padhai'.

Mr Dixit, I presume

J.N. 'Mani' Dixit, India's former foreign secretary, was an expert on Sri Lanka, an accomplished diplomat and a public servant Delhi didn't deserve.

Seizure in the Heartland

Here's a question for both, the pundit and the pollster. Or maybe it is just a truism suffixed with a convenient question mark: Could...

Poll notes of a limo liberal

If you laugh at parachute reporters, what would you call a genuinely motley gang of psephologists, investment bankers, editors, columnists and television anchors —...

Konark & fibre-glass ducks

You have to give them full marks for punctuality and feather-touch landings. Yet, it is difficult to cast away your prejudices against very old...

The error in terror

Speak with any New Yorker this week and his favourite line seems to be, "it was a day just like this". We sit looking...

The Kanchi Trinity

By the standards of the temples and religious establishments in the south, the Kanchi Kamakodi Peeth, better known as the Kanchi Mutt, is much...

Travels in Haryana’s Ahirland: Stirrings in out-of-sight, out-of-mind country

You cannot fault the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for not putting more prominent signs to announce the exit ramp for Rewari on...

Some lines in the desert

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is the last place you would expect to be in to speak at a college reunion. It's also an unlikely place...

Last night I went to Pakistan

The UN would probably never accept it as a yardstick for its human development ratings. But put this away under my name in the...

On Camera

Trump tariff forces India to shed illusion. Stop conflating status with power

India’s future lies in pragmatism. Protectionism must be phased out gradually, not in disruptive shocks.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.