'India lone voice of silence': Sonia slams govt for not calling out Israel's 'Gaza genocide'Sonia Gandhi strongly criticised the Modi government's silence on the "Gaza genocide," deeming it morally reprehensible and detrimental to ...
27 Jun, 2026, 02.28 PM IST
Quote of the day by Antonio Gramsci: "The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not..." Learn the profound lesson from the imprisoned Italian thinker who exposed how societies surrender freedom quietly through consent, culture, and invisible powerQuote of the day by Antonio Gramsci reveals a timeless truth about power, propaganda, political control, and social influence. Jailed by It...
27 May, 2026, 05.39 PM IST
Quote of the day by Frida Kahlo ahead of Women’s Day: ‘Revolution transform[s] the world into a classless one so that …’Frida Kahlo, a renowned Mexican artist, used her life and work to challenge injustice. Her paintings explored identity and culture, while h...
07 Mar, 2026, 10.45 AM IST
A Macaulay mindset that suited Mrs DMsA colonial-era rule in Uttar Pradesh mandating the District Magistrate's wife as the Zilla Mahila Samiti president for 165 years has been s...
30 Nov, 2025, 11.24 PM IST
What beautiful English we speak!The author reflects on the common experience of Indians being complimented on their English proficiency by Westerners, particularly in Brit...
10 Jul, 2025, 10.54 PM IST
Du Bois, Du Bwa, Du Boyss, Dubya, Du LitGayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a scholar at Academia La La Land, criticized a student who mistakenly pronouncing sociologist W E B Du Bois' na...
28 May, 2024, 11.29 AM IST
'The empire strikes back,' now RIPThe lazy, stale 'The Empire Strikes Back' kind of headlines still conjured up each time India defeats England - or on the even rarer occasi...
13 Nov, 2022, 10.33 PM IST
Accidental author, voice of displaced: Who is Abdulrazak Gurnah, the winner of Nobel Prize in Literature?Gurnah says he stumbled upon writing, it was unplanned.
08 Oct, 2021, 04.59 PM IST
Indian-origin author Mahmood Mamdani shortlisted for British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingThe 75-year-old is in the running for the GBP 25,000 non-fiction prize for 'Neither Settler nor Native'.
07 Sep, 2021, 06.44 PM IST
Why on Earth this border line neurosis?What is it about incorrect maps — essentially, those showing India smaller— that gets some people’s goat?
29 Jun, 2021, 11.08 PM IST
Jeeves & Bertie don’t miss the Wodehouse for the trees in this postcolonial chhota hazriXeno-whatcher? Don’t tell me it’s another virus that’s been let loose on the world!
26 Jun, 2021, 10.52 PM IST
The day Britain was discoveredWe should pick up this neat ‘poco’ trick from New Zealand.
01 May, 2021, 09.02 AM IST
View: Only a sustained project of strengthening democracy can prevent incidents like HathrasCaste and patriarchy are readily blamed for the phenomenon. After 70 years of working under a Constitution that promises all citizens equal...
03 Oct, 2020, 11.00 PM IST
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....
22 Jun, 2019, 11.30 PM IST
View: Election verdict 2019 a manifestation of the collective subalternThe entry of Modi in national politics disrupted older structures of power that had, till then, gone unnoticed.
25 May, 2019, 09.43 PM IST
Jawaharlal Nehru was torn between loving Chinese civilisation and securing Indian borderNehru’s first noteworthy encounter with the Chinese took place at the World Congress of Oppressed Peoples held in Brussels in 1927.
18 Nov, 2014, 11.57 AM IST
1962 India-China War: Wrong lessonsFor a country with a democratic system of government, there was no public or parliamentary inquiry into the war and much of the debates sin...
22 Mar, 2014, 04.00 AM IST