Representative image: Sit-in protest against crackdowns on beef processing, storage and consumption

Opinion

Does India at the UN even have a voice worth hearing?

CJI D.Y. Chandrachud (photo: PTI)

Opinion

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging!

File photo of a BJP rally in Varanasi, UP

Opinion

Communal dog whistles spike ahead of state polls in November

Around 50 Dalit students were thrown out of a school because upper-caste parents objected in April 2023

Opinion

Reservation as an attack on ‘merit’ (or why India lags behind)

Kamala Harris with Donald Trump during a presidential debate in Pennsylvania

Opinion

Harris or Trump: Still anybody’s guess

Chinese President Xi Jinping and PM Narendra Modi (file photo)

Opinion

Decoding the India-China patrolling arrangement: A beginning, no breakthrough

BJP national president J.P Nadda and Union home minister Amit Shah

POLITICS

Making sense of the BJP’s membership drive

File photo of the farmers' protest

Opinion

Have our courts upheld our right to protest?

Defence minister Rajnath Singh performs puja on a Rafale fighter plane, 2019

Opinion

A matter of national security...says who?

One of India's biggest tourism revenue earners

Opinion

Can we save the Taj Mahal?

Aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on Beirut that killed at least 22

Opinion

Even the ‘balance of terror’ is now failing

Outgoing CJI D.Y. Chandrachud (file photo)

Opinion

A legacy best forgotten

The FBI notice on Vikash Yadav

Opinion

Few takers for India’s ‘rogue RAW agent’ theory