Opinion

Multiple challenges ahead post Taliban’s Afghan takeover

24 Aug 2021 04:47 AM IST

New Delhi needs to maintain a strategic silence and adopt a wait and watch policy and soft-power modalities over escalations in Kabul.

TALIBAN REGIME IS UNDEMOCRATIC, ILLEGITIMATE AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL

23 Aug 2021 02:05 AM IST

World leaders must think that the Taliban are not the only claimants to Afghan power, there are many more such groups in Afghanistan who are also fighting to achieve the seat of power. According to media reports, several countries, including Pakistan and Turkey, are going to recognise the Taliban regime

Time to change the narrative on 1962 India-China war

23 Aug 2021 02:04 AM IST

The history of 1962 needs to be rewritten, and India should not be ashamed of its Army during those fateful months. On the contrary, it is time to build more memorials and museums and let the general public—and China—know about the outstanding valour of the Indian soldiers.

THE PAIN OF LOSING TWO COLLEAGUES, BOTH SIBLINGS

21 Aug 2021 03:16 AM IST

It was 30 September 2001 after my wife, Renée and I, entered the Plaza cinema to watch the matinee show a new movie that had been released a few days earlier, when the phone rang at about 3.35 pm. It was my editor, Vir Sanghvi, and coming to the point

PM Modi deserves credit for a Bill that aims to empower OBCs

21 Aug 2021 03:13 AM IST

The successive Congress regimes only paid lip service to the cause of OBCs and the marginalised, it is the Modi government that finally brought to fruition various reforms to ensure that the benefits of inclusivity and development are made accessible to one and all, cutting through swathes of divisive rhetoric.

WHAT KRK’S ASCENT AS A SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER TELLS ABOUT US

20 Aug 2021 07:12 AM IST

In recent times, social media sites have become a cesspool of wretchedness and depravity. It has never been any easier for trolls to target at will the people with clout such as celebrities, politicians, journalists, critics, lawyers, artists, activists, etc. The troll would simply accuse a person of something he/she

Time to end trial by media

20 Aug 2021 07:11 AM IST

The Centre should enact a law to prevent any more harm to those still being denied the right to a free and fair trial due to pre-trial by media.

ALLIANCE OF THE AUTHORITARIANS WILL FLOP IN AFGHANISTAN

19 Aug 2021 02:22 AM IST

The Indian embassy staff in Kabul were evacuated and brought back to the country on Tuesday. India was the latest to join the long list of countries scrambling to get out of Afghanistan post the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban. Interestingly, the embassies in Kabul continuing to function normally

Enforcing the right to education

19 Aug 2021 02:20 AM IST

The children belong to the state, and it is the paramount constitutional obligation of the state to strive incessantly to provide universal access to quality education to all children regardless of their religion, gender, or community.

CONGRESS, A PARTY IN EXIT MODE

18 Aug 2021 02:07 AM IST

Sushmita Dev’s exit from the Congress is the third high-profile exit from the party in a little over a year. What she has in common with Jyotiraditya Scindia and Jitin Prasada is that she too was part of Rahul Gandhi’s ‘camelot’, a key player in Team Rahul, and also a

Debunking the bias of commercial surrogacy

18 Aug 2021 02:02 AM IST

How interpreting the issue of surrogacy has become a matter of convenience and selective perception.

AFGHANISTAN HAS BEEN LEFT TO ITS OWN FATE

17 Aug 2021 02:30 AM IST

In the end, it was a whimper. All that talk about the Afghanistan government putting up a credible fight to the Taliban crumbled, as the jihadi militia sauntered into Mazar-i-Sharif and then into the presidential palace in Kabul, snatching power with the ease of snatching candy from a child. President