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The silence of our heroes
June 13, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Do people revered as heroes in any culture have a moral responsibility to speak up for larger issues and take strong political stances? The question has come to the forefront in the wake of the…
June 13, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Outrage as fodder for commentary?
June 6, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
The most significant takeaway from the Tanmay Bhat issue is that one needs to write an article about it. There seems to be no way out of it. There have been many laments about the…
June 6, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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In the name of the family
May 30, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
The Congress has lost again, it once again needs to ‘introspect’, and once again the family is not to blame. Increasingly, it is becoming difficult to care and perhaps after the 2019 elections there may…
May 30, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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The BJP: A question of ambition?
May 23, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
What does one make of the recent Assembly election results? Much has already been said- that the BJP is now clearly and unambiguously a national party. That the Congress is on life support and might…
May 23, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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The coming of the hot democracy
May 16, 2016, 11:38 AM IST
When a rigorous democratic process throws up someone like Donald Trump as one of the two people likely to become the most powerful person in the world, it is natural to take another look at…
May 16, 2016, 11:38 AM IST
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A nation disconnected?
May 9, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
In this day and age, what explains the electoral pull of a device like prohibition? Kerala announced it, Nitish Kumar followed, and Tamil Nadu is next on the list. Why would such a heavy-handed measure…
May 9, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Of love and hate in Pakistan
May 2, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
What makes an event news? This somewhat unoriginal question came into sharp focus last week for me on my first trip to Pakistan. One of the co-speakers at a marketing conference I was speaking at…
May 2, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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An epidemic of arbitrariness?
April 25, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Those who grew up in India in the seventies and eighties would be familiar with Mandrake the Magician. Along with Phantom, he fought a lonely battle against evil, before the other caped superheroes arrived on…
April 25, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Dr Ambedkar and the market for icons
April 17, 2016, 9:13 PM IST
The extraordinary attempts made by political parties to claim Dr Ambedkar as one of their own has received much comment. One would have understood this phenomenon taking place in the immediate aftermath of Kanshi Ram…
April 17, 2016, 9:13 PM IST
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The builder flat: Modernity without content?
April 10, 2016, 9:39 PM IST
Across the country, a new kind of habitat is being created. As the city spills over from its original boundaries, and moves skywards, more and more Indians are coming to terms with the idea of…
April 10, 2016, 9:39 PM IST
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Imprisoned by textbooks?
April 3, 2016, 10:59 PM IST
My neighbor in the aircraft is ploughing determinedly through a fat textbook with title, which has a title that is both simple and quite definitive- Chemistry. As is quite normal with textbooks, this one too…
April 3, 2016, 10:59 PM IST
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A question of consent
March 28, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Maneka’s Gandhi’s recent statement to the effect that the concept of marital rape could not be suitably applied in the Indian context due to its unique cultural context has expectedly raised a storm of protest….
March 28, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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One step at a time
March 21, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Senior RSS leader Dattatreya Hosabale issued a statement about the need to decriminalise homosexuality and then appeared to do a U-turn by calling it not a criminal but a socially immoral act that needed psychological…
March 21, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Yearning for a Kanhaiya?
March 14, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Kanhaiya’s brilliant oratoricalper fo r mance has catapult ed him into the sta tus of a hero, even for those who don’t quite agree with him ideologically.There are predictions of a future in politics and…
March 14, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Men at work?
March 7, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
In Tokyo, when the flight took off, the work crew on the tarmac, stood to attention in a line and bowed their farewell to departing passengers. In Delhi, when it landed, groups of men slouched…
March 7, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
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What unites us
February 29, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
Given the divisiveness of the political discourse today, perhaps its time to become a little naïve again and go back to some rudimentary first principles. What we see today as implacably opposed ideologies are all,…
February 29, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
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An angry nationalism
February 22, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
Much has been said about the JNU issue. A broad range of opinions have been expressed, but there is an influential view, subscribed to by many commentators on both sides, albeit to different degrees, that…
February 22, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
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The diversity dilemma
February 7, 2016, 10:26 PM IST
The debate around the lack of diversity in the Oscar nominations raises some complex questions not only about race, but about several other patterns of exclusion. It is possible to respond by taking an unambiguous…
February 7, 2016, 10:26 PM IST
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Match-fixing: Unethical or illegal?
February 1, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
The first time it happened, the idea that some Indian cricketers could be involved in fixing matches was a truly devastating one. Having grown up like millions following the game to the point of obsession,…
February 1, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Incredible India or incredibly lazy?
January 24, 2016, 10:15 AM IST
The idea that Bollywood celebrities are needed to market India reveals a poor understanding of how brands work So now it’s the turn of Priyanka Chopra and Amitabh Bachchan to be the brand ambassadors for…
January 24, 2016, 10:15 AM IST
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