Insight - Page 19
A year. And counting
20 March 2021 10:46 PM ISTA year back, a pandemic bared its fangs and began notching up scary numbers. We changed our way of working, living and loving. What followed was 365...
Somehow, a Sardar can
14 March 2021 10:45 AM ISTIt is a celebration, yet disquieting, that most things of real, ground-level relevance are being done primarily by our Sikh brethren; in the country...
Cracking the Whip
6 March 2021 10:32 PM ISTFor a fourth time running, the Supreme Court has expressed its strong displeasure over the issue of continuing custodial irregularities and...
Not a mere Billi
27 Feb 2021 11:52 PM ISTA few months after the communal riots in Delhi last year, I ended up doing something that I never have before — I went to Shaheen Bagh. I now do it...
From NEFA to Arunachal
20 Feb 2021 10:49 PM ISTThe saga of assimilation of the North-East frontier region and subsequent formation of Arunachal Pradesh is interspersed with acts of success and...
Caution thrown to the winds
13 Feb 2021 11:12 PM ISTLast week, I went to a club I have frequented for years now to have a good time with near and dear ones. I discovered only chaos, people shaking...
A regional construct
30 Jan 2021 11:21 PM ISTA series of agrarian and missionary uprisings were brought under a single roof by Jaipal Singh to realise the separate statehood for Jharkhand
Buy me a bottle…
23 Jan 2021 11:27 PM ISTMore typically, don’t force me to drink in my father’s car, or cross city borders to get my quota of tipple. I can vote, I can drive, I can sire...
A hard choice? Or not?
16 Jan 2021 11:21 PM IST‘Incredible’ may not be the appropriate adjective to describe the event, but incredible indeed it was to watch a sitting President of the United...
Friday needs a Sunday
9 Jan 2021 10:42 PM ISTTo kill off a car in 10 or 15 years is a joke, especially in a country like India. And far more radically so in the times that we are going through...
Who the hell needs 5G?
2 Jan 2021 10:30 PM ISTThe few surviving telecom firms in India have demanded that 5G air-waves be auctioned by the Government at the soonest. To some extent, I agree....
Running out of air
19 Dec 2020 11:20 PM ISTFor the uninitiated, here’s a wake-up call, while we still breathe easy and free. We are headed for a calamity of our own doing, but we shamelessly...
India, US vow closer ties as Modi, Vance discuss trade, defence and...
22 April 2025 2:15 AM ISTSaving Soil for a Secure Future
19 April 2025 9:14 PM ISTSelf-afflicting tariff tempest
19 April 2025 9:11 PM ISTDemystifying the Delimitation Dilemma
19 April 2025 9:08 PM ISTOn a Slow Burner
19 April 2025 9:00 PM IST
‘Conclave’, ‘white-black smoke’: Pope’s death kicks off series of...
23 April 2025 1:41 AM ISTCivilian infra may be spared as Russia mulls Kyiv proposal
23 April 2025 1:40 AM ISTNo truce in sight, Moscow batters Odesa and Zaporizhzhia
23 April 2025 1:40 AM ISTPope’s clarion call for saving planet
23 April 2025 1:40 AM IST‘Papacy for life’: Francis stayed true to his belief
23 April 2025 1:39 AM IST