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Friday, September 27, 2024
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Topic: Delhi

Indians should remember their non-violent traditions – the Dalai Lama

Speakers at the launch of Arun Shourie’s new book said looking at our past and the lives of Indian mystics, whose lives were inextricably linked to religion yet so removed from the bigotry that vitiates religion today, can be extremely enlightening. SANYA DHINGRA

“Museum wahin banayenge!”

All politics is symbolic, and the BJP is replacing realpolitik with symbolic politics, especially in Ayodhya, by trying to build a museum.

Whispers in despatches

In old power capitals, gossip and rumour are more convincing than fact. Durbari Delhi is no different

Why we should let Aurangzeb Road be

A short history of Independent India’s strange priorities through a tour of Delhi’s avenues.

Big cities, capital drain

Our biggest cities have continued to rot away in the last decade, but why should the future of India's urbanisation policies remain bleak too.

East to west, money defines politics in India’s double-income, no ideology city of ‘freedom fighters’

Delhi is driven by greed, ambition and arrogant, freebooting cynicism as no other city in the country. AAP has figured out the havenots, BJP its old, pushy made-gooders, and Congress none at all.

The lane permit quota raj

Memory may usually play funny games with one's mind, but sometimes it can be deadly serious. As it was with me just last week...

Liberate our cities

You have to give it to the very young South Bombay MP for having started a debate, on these pages (The Indian Express), over...

On Camera

India has 2 women CMs now. Atishi and Mamata Banerjee are both victims of bad PR

Women look up to women in power as role models. But so far, Atishi’s public image is that of a woman-in-waiting rather than a woman-in-charge.

Tamil Nadu govt & Ford go way back. How carmaker’s return is new chapter in story that began in 1995

High value of 350-acre Ford plant property drove TN to encourage Ford to return over nearly a yr of negotiations. It's expected to reinforce state's resurgence as global manufacturing hub.

A fitness & fighter aircraft enthusiast, who is Air Marshal AP Singh, the next Chief of Air Force

Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh will take over as chief on 30 September. During his service of nearly 40 yrs, he has served in variety of command, staff, instructional & foreign appointments.

Lesson from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan: if you have no patience, you don’t deserve democracy

Sri Lankan transition was smoothly managed. Check Bangladesh for contrast. They forced their incumbent into exile, installed a mostly unelectable govt of non-political people.