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Circle The Wagons Around Drag on Hole

An Australian perspective on strategic developments in the Indo-Pacific. 

The Times Are a-Taxin'

Post-demonetisation, states have hardened their stances on the proposed GST. A delay is inevitable.

Mirror, Mirror, Who's Worse?

BJP’s strategies for capturing Bengal—development and communalism—are in Mamata’s playbook too.

Court Of The Absurd

In mythology, the Sun God’s son is a tragic hero. But Justice Karnan, the first HC judge to be awarded jail term for contempt of court, has set a sad precedent.

Rajlakshmi Borthakur

“Does it sound mad to you?

Parveen Sikandar

For Patricia Narayanan, food is bread and butter—in a cryptic way as well. That’s because, the middle-­aged Chennaiite runs a restaurant, a food court in a mall and the canteen of an IT major. The same metro has, on a quiet and leafy avenue of Kotturpuram, a much-sought-after name for stylish fashion jewellery that does not burn a hole in your pockets. That is Damini, again, the creation of another woman’s inspiration and hard work.

Sabriye Tenberken

Naming an institute after a small, potent chilli that grows wild in Kerala is unusual. But it seems like a fitting name for a Thiruvananthapuram institute that studies how humans can overcome even the harshest failures.

Scenes From Up And Down The Stairs

We present our annual B-school rankings in a challenging year. Elsewhere, we focus on family businesses, MBA maestros and Bollywood.

On The School Carousel

What do they all need? A sharp guideline for B-schools, aspirants and graduates.

Sealing Souls With Glass

To be successful entrepreneurs, women must overcome their negative conditioning

'Crowds Will Go Crazy'

Jaya and Karunanidhi out of the way, Rajinikanth now seeks a lead role in Tamil Politics.

90 Days on the Run or Let Loose?

An extract from the chapter ‘Why did the CBI avoid (capturing) sivarasan?’ from Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict Nalini Murugan’s recently released memoir, Rajiv Killing: Forgotten Truths.

Digital Bombs of Mob Violence

Social media rumours fan a medieval barbarity within us. This time it’s Assam.

A Nation Within 4 Temples

The millennia-old idea of Bharat has been gripped in confusion since Indian independence. Now is as good a time as any to clear the haze.

30-01-1948

It’s the 70th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s ­assassination. And it’s time we fulfilled our part of a long-neglected compact.

Benches Of Final Judgement

An excellent history of the Supreme Court celebrates its prestige, analyses its judgements and deplores the ease with which its decisions can be bypassed

Matters Came To A Bull's Head

Angry fires raged across Tamil Nadu when the SC banned Jallikattu. This account tries to find out the reasons for this spontaneous outpouring of raw emotion.

Sakshi Malik: The Suns of This Soil

Haryana’s girls and their families have found in sports a way out of the confines of the khap

Strategy to use China against India is outdated

Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, Nepal’s prime minister, will be in India on a three-day visit from September 15, on a mission that is widely being seen as an attempt to mend ties between the two countries. This is his second stint as prime minister—he was chosen to the post in 2008, after the decade long Maoist rebellion that he headed came to an end and a 12-point peace agreement was reached between the rebels and major political parties. He comes here at a time when India-Nepal relations have taken a beating, following the Madhesi agitation and the economic blockade of Nepal, widely believed to have been instigated by India.

Fracture Un-Nursed

A post-merger revolt in AIADMK reduces the EPS government to a minority 

The Art Of Speaking

Media and democracy—the themes recurred at the Vinod Mehta Memorial Lecture and Outlook SpeakOut Awards

A Latter-Day Torch To Be Borne With Care

In this inaugural Vinod Mehta Memorial Lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll talks about the origins, uses, abuses, trials and triumphs of free, fair and investigative modern journalism as the world knows it

'It's Not Worth Having Whistle Blowers In India Today'

For many millennials, turning 30 is often a reminder to look back and assess the life goals one sought and achieved, failed to or is still striving for.

the bullet resonates a 'cruel joke'

a teenager’s death in 2010 led to five months’ protest, killing 112 people. now the probe panel says, ‘call cbi’.

a winter's malady

the cold breath of seasonal affective disorder stalls lives.diagnosis, self-help and light help.

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