New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- On July 31, in Gujarat for Sardar Patel's birth anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that "foreign backed" forces were conspiring to destabilise India. He wondered who w... और पढ़ें
New Delhi, Oct. 29 -- The Nobel Prize in Medicine was given to the developers of optogenetics, which studies specific brain cells, neurons, with light for precise investigation of brain circuits in me... और पढ़ें
New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- Indian children are the best behaved in the world. When they protest, they are punched, kicked, and molested by the police, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's orders (what a tough... और पढ़ें
New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- The success of Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi's rally on October 12, 2026, gathering 2.5 lakh marchers against electoral malpractices, should not blind us to the fact that Kin... और पढ़ें
New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- This summer abroad, I read books old and new, including the mammoth Middlemarch by George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans), which Martin Amis called the best English novel (in a 1967 l... और पढ़ें
New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- For all the handwringing over AI's threat to humanity, here's a thought experiment. Given the authoritarian way Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has run the constitutio... और पढ़ें
New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- Some in BRICS unofficially suspect Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being a Trojan horse. They believe that US President Donald Trump has excessive sway over Modi, which may or m... और पढ़ें
New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- On 6 September, a five-storey building in Delhi's Satya Niketan being used as a paying-guest facility collapsed, killing seven people, most of them students. The building was un... और पढ़ें
New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of the German Third Reich (1933-1945), never openly wept, though he was reportedly tearful on occasion. Music moved him, particularly Richard Wagner's (... और पढ़ें
New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- Your columnist is looking forward to Sonia Gandhi's 544-page memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, which will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in the US two months from now. It wa... और पढ़ें