OPINION
The mob that hates
By: Harsh Mander As the grim threat of lynching casts a terrifying shadow over large swathes of the country, directions...
Shashi Tharoor Has Hit the Nail On the Head
By: RAM PUNIYANI Shashi Tharoor is a prolific writer-politician, whose recent book, ‘Why I am a Hindu’ is selling like...
Where Democracy Is a Terrifying Business
By: Ali Akbar Natiq Every two weeks I travel from Lahore, where I teach Urdu literature at a university, to...
Decoding Trump’s attack on Europe
By: Ravi Arvind Palat U.S. President Donald Trump’s incendiary tour of Europe has justly generated extensive coverage for his disregard...
Fuss about meeting Muslims
ABOUT three years ago, eminent historian Romila Thapar urged Indian intellectuals to wake up and shore up democracy against a...
Dark clouds over the RTI
By: Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)government has struck another blow against transparency and accountability. Its already...
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan remains undefeated
By: Jatin Desai The assassination of Haroon Bilour in Pakistan’s Peshawar establishes that still Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has the capability...
Politics over the Constitution
BY: Neera Chandhoke Though the phrase “history is written by the victors” is attributed to Winston Churchill, the origins of...
Carnage and sitting ducks
By: Cyril Almeida HORROR in Mastung, farce in Punjab — one numbing and grotesque, the other familiar political confrontation. But...
Coming home to jail: on the Repatriation of Prisoners Act, 2003
By: Sana Das Two cases of repatriation of Indian nationals, the first being 52-year-old Ismail Samma of Gujarat, and the...