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The year 2020 was certainly not kind to the world. In the future, we will always reflect on it as a grim past that kept the whole of humanity on...

Hope is on the horizon. But surely that's not enough to make us drop guard. All we know so far is despite so many people recovering from the virus attack,...

Cuttack: Arrested Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahi has moved the Orissa High Court seeking bail. Panigrahi's bail plea was initially rejected by Judicial Magistrate (First Class) (JMFC) and subsequently by District...

What does the term 'liberal' mean exactly? In the current political discourse it is as much a prejorative expression as 'bhakt' and 'secular' are. Those at the Left of the...

More than 1.5 million lives worldwide, more than 1.35 lakh in India. Shocking numbers. And the virus is not done yet. Nearly a year into the pandemic, we cannot even...

  The old, overarching vision of India is collapsing. It is too early to judge whether it is for good or bad. It was a construct powered by the intellectual...

The IPL is over, and allowed a bit of melodrama of Hindi films of yore, we could visualise the cricket fan as the heartbroken hero whose ladylove has eloped with...

It's outrage time on social media again. This time it is over the arrest of Arnab Goswami by the Maharashtra police in a case involving the suicide of an architect...

What after the Indian Premier League is over? Sigh! One dreads even the thought of going there. It will be blankness again. There will be an IPL-shaped hole in the...

Forbearance, a factor critical to sustainability of democracy, is collapsing across the world. Maybe for good reason. Democracies catered to the interests of a few and demanded too much self-restraint...