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The street is for all

New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- In July, Bengaluru cleared many footpaths under the "Safe Footpath Campaign", with the worthy goal of enhanced pedestrian safety. This is a crucial issue for Bengaluru's citizen... Read More


-Passion play

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- In 1884, Kadambari Devi, the wife of Rabindranath Tagore's older brother Jyotirindranath, died by suicide. She was 25, two years older than Rabindranath, who had been her close ... Read More


Sweden's knife-edge election

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- With more than 80 per cent of ballots counted in Sweden's general election held on September 13, the Scandinavian country's opposition centre-left bloc is clinging to a razor-th... Read More


Why US outsourcing its hegemony to Israel won't work

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- For much of the post-Cold War period, the US enjoyed a degree of dominance in West Asia unmatched by any other external power. The collapse of the Soviet Union left the US at th... Read More


Can the RSS outlive its record?

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- Mohan Bhagwat's recent global outreach tour to the US, Canada, and Britain, undertaken in the RSS's centenary year, resembles a political theatre in which the protagonist seeks ... Read More


'The mood is for change, but the challenge is on us': Jairam Ramesh

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- The student protests of 2026 have altered the political conversation in India, and few in the Congress party have watched the shift as closely as Jairam Ramesh. As the party's C... Read More


Synthetic misogyny

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- This week in India, crude AI-generated images revived a decades-old smear on Sonia Gandhi. It portrayed the 79-year-old Gandhi, former Congress president and sitting Rajya Sabha... Read More


BRICS can reduce its reliance on the dollar. Can it build an alternative?

New Delhi, Sept. 14 -- The 18th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) Summit, held in New Delhi between September 12 and 13, 2026, was expected by many to mark the bloc's transition f... Read More


The rise of vegetarian fundamentalism

New Delhi, Sept. 14 -- Decades ago, when I was earning my spurs at a newspaper, late journalist Mohan Ram recounted an anecdote of former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao admonishing bureaucrats for writi... Read More


I like to work on small gestures: K. Benitha Perciyal

New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- An ongoing solo exhibition by the Chennai-based artist K. Benitha Perciyal, "How Long Will We Live? Or When Will We Die?" (August 7 to September 30), offers a rare opportunity t... Read More