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Happy birthday, America? At 250, nation may be too divided to celebrate as oneAmerica's 250th birthday is proving divisive, mirroring the nation's deep political schisms. While some, like Betsy Halsey, refuse to celeb...
Buzzkill: How India can dissolve the Pakistan problem, not just swat itThe article suggests that Pakistan has become a threat and needs to be confronted. The author proposes a unique solution: India should focu...
Maharashtra elections: Pankaja Munde promises to take cognisance if Dalits, OBCs are 'troubled'BJP leader Pankaja Munde pledges support for Dalits and OBCs in Maharashtra, emphasizing unity and addressing caste tensions. Speaking at h...
Racist, sexist, casteist: Is AI bad news for India?With a population of 1.4 billion powering the world's fifth-biggest economy, India is undergoing breakneck technological change, rolling ou...
All Are OneThe images of various deities is merely representations of the qualities of the One. An image can also help in meditating. The Quran calls ...
Vat is this! Vegans versus VegetariansVirat Kohli’s egg-before-wicket decision is his own. No third umpire is needed
View: The protests against CAA-NRC confront unresolved questions of social division in IndiaNationwide protests against CAA and NRC confront unresolved questions on identity, citizenship, and rights.
View: Time to fill the political space with national visionIn the election campaign, the Opposition failed to come up with a positive narrative that could counter BJP’s vision of majoritarian glory....
Ashok Kheny may find it hard to cut this electoral dealBy fielding Kheny, Congress is hoping to win Bidar South, which was born post delimitation in 2008, for the first time.
Old guard vs Rahul Gandhi camp: Ahmed Patel's win revives debate in CongressAll eyes are on how Congress moves forward and if the party can find a middle ground to marry the aspirations of a young leadership with th...
Former union minister, M Veerappa Moily demands caste data collected to be made publicMoily, a former law minister was one of the main ministers in the last government who pushed for the census.
Why caste continues to matter a great deal in IndiaIt is easy to see why there is such great sensitivity to the casual mention of caste -it has after all been the most significant axis of di...
ISIL needs to be seen as common enemyNew Delhi must keep an eye on developments and offer all possible partnership to regional nations in fighting Islamic State of Iraq and the...
BJP’s new poll calculus in UP will upset its upper caste baseNarendra Modi may still strike gold, but not necessarily because he got his caste-based poll arithmetic right.
Minorities are poorly represented in mainstream educationWe welcome Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen’s comments questioning the need for a separate ministry for minority affairs.
Assam: Local violence should be stamped out locally, to prevent a conflagrationThe violent protest in Mumbai and the beating up of people from the north-east in Pune, in reaction to the violence against Muslims in lowe...
- Try, my beloved country
Grassroots activism can make a difference. Here's how men and women in four South Asian countries did it
- Sectarian divide in Punjab
Punjab eruption highlights need to have Centre-state co-ordination.
- Jat-Jatav politics hots up in UP
With the Samajwadi Party, the BJP and the Congress extending their full backing to ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ held on Tuesday at Sisauli, Bharat...
- ‘It was my destiny to be the PM’
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said although the Opposition did not think he would last as the Prime Minister, he believed it was his de...