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Raga Darbari On High Notes

The stage is clearly set for a no-holds-barred faceoff. There is little room for doubt now on whether Rahul would lead his party into the 2019 Lok Sabha polls

Sister's Need For Unity

As the BJP targets Bengal, Mamata looks at the Left, which has eyes only for the Congress. She’s a leading mover behind talks for an inchoate ‘federal front’.

Square Leg Umpire's Sixer

After clipping wings of BCCI supremos, an irate Vinod Rai threatens to hold elections without recalcitrant affiliates

A Bitter Harvest

Multiple agitations show all’s not well with the ‘rich’ state of Maharashtra.

Scholar, SUI Generis 

The mercurial devourer of knowledge—and giver of care and affection—in youth has crafted his own, unique path. Ram Guha is a category- efying scholar who takes on bhakts and mullahs.

That Chink In The Wall

No point delivering liberal homilies to a hierarchical society. But Guha has discarded the questions of power.

Editing A Writing Machine

The academic can complicate what seems simple even while simplifying the seemingly complex —that’s what made Ram Guha a pioneer of sorts as a writer of history.

The RG Who Wrote Off Rahul Gandhi

Biographer, chronicler, equal-opportunity critic and sincere friend are but a few of Ram Guha’s avatars.

The Bat And Beetle Flew

Guha liberated Indian cricket writing from its pedantic rut. He visits the game with empathy, amid its socio-cultural moorings.

Dynasty Under Watch

After Nawaz, PML-N has to walk a tightrope—hold on to power and keep the army quiet

Rightward Is The Glance

A tainted AIADMK could be the new NDA ally, provided the party’s warring factions merge first.

For Bharat, A Free 4G Buffet

After the Jio SIM changed India’s smartphone world, the Jio Phone is here to transform and rule over rural telecom

Right Tied In Tangles

It’s not whether there’s such a thing as privacy, but its limits are what Supreme Court is set to spell out

Great Speakers None

Left titans from Bengal once lit up Parliament. Now, the Left can have no new elders.

In The Continuous Battlefield

The first Dalit novel in Oriya is also a clash of generational views— education and radical action as an armature and counter to prejudice

Ideals Know No Boundary

Any business has a direct effect on the social condition. In a society such as ours, where the divide between the rich and the poor is gigantic, it becomes the responsibility of entrepreneurs to act ethically and give back in some way.

The Cow Protector's Justice

A brutal public beating of Dalits by gau rakshaks in Una sets off protests across Gujarat - the BJP feels the heat

Pokemonia! Pokemon Go Takes A Children's Game Outdoors

By combining cuteness, nostalgia and Augmented Reality, Pokémon GO has taken over the world.

Path Yet To Take A Turn

Reactions to the Kannada editor’s killing continue to be loud. The investigations have made no headway.

Into The Vale Ride Three Players

Supporting Pakistan-based groups in Kashmir reeks of old policy, but can’t be fully abandoned too. Lone wolf attempts at peace also won’t work.

Kingdom Of Crooked Mirrors

Like the fabrication behind ‘Pakistan Defence Day’, Bajwa’s solemn jeremiad about their good intentions is a bare-faced lie. Only a strategic shift can correct it.

'The Tech's There, Not The Political Will'

Magsaysay award winner Bezwada ­Wilson has been at the forefront of a spirited campaign for many years, working relentlessly for the total eradication of manual scavenging in the country. In conversation with Giridhar Jha after the recent landfill tragedy at Ghazipur in Delhi, the 51-year-old crusader talks about the civic scenario, death of sanitary workers, the prime minister’s pet Swachh Bharat campaign and the reasons why we, as a nation, have failed to deal with sanitation in a scientific manner.

A Universal Net To Hold All Workers

A dramatic draft moots a single social security system for all workers, formal and informal. Sceptics fume.

General Peacenik?

A Pakistani general and a dove? It would usually be an oxymoron. But AfPak, BRICS all set a new context.

The Master's String

When the Congress, which still doesn’t know how far to use Hindutva, swears by the ‘sacred’ janeu, the theatre turns absurd and the humour dark

To Unknot The Yajnopaveeta

The sacred thread is rich in history and many-faceted in its meanings

Here, The Charge Is Neutral

The story of the sacred thread takes a twist in Karnataka, as Lingayat men and women sport it with a small Shivalinga

Bollywood's Own Shakespeare Wallah

How I came to know Shashi and made New Delhi Times

The Doctor's Swansong

With the PDP silent on its ‘self-rule’ agenda, NC’s Farooq Abdullah goes all out for autonomy in J&K

From Cradle To Saddle

As Rahul takes over from his mother, the 132-year-old Congress seems to need the dynasty more than the dynasty needs it