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Is Christmas about presents or presence?
December 21, 2023, 9:30 AM IST
By- Christopher Mendonca Even a cursory reading of the Christmas Narrative as recounted in the Gospel of Luke will reveal that it is anything but a pleasant experience for the characters in the story. Mary…
December 21, 2023, 9:30 AM IST
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Explained: The FX-rated debate between IMF & RBI
December 21, 2023, 9:19 AM IST
IMF thinks RBI did too much to keep the rupee sort-of-stable when pretty much every currency was getting hammered by a sharply rising dollar. But RBI disagrees with the conclusions of the Fund’s latest Article…
December 21, 2023, 9:19 AM IST
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Omicron’s new look for the new year: JN.1 sub-variant may lead to a rise in case counts
December 21, 2023, 9:07 AM IST
“Covid Come! Covid Go! Covid Come Again!” seems to be the media melody’s refrain, as variants of the SARS CoV-2 virus keep appearing and fading, only to be replaced by yet another version. Emergence of…
December 21, 2023, 9:07 AM IST
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Season’s bleatings: The yearly offering of carols for our unholy times
December 21, 2023, 8:40 AM IST
Potholed roads, potholed roads, Bumping all the way. Oh what a pain it is to drive To work and back each day. Hey!Watch out! Try dashing through the street With punctured wheel in fright, O’er…
December 21, 2023, 8:40 AM IST
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Well done, class: Falling dropout ratios at secondary level are a big positive. Kids will stay in school if job market improves
December 21, 2023, 8:28 AM IST
Educationists believe the age group 15-16 is the one that is most at risk of dropping out of school. Therefore, the trend in the dropout ratio after Class X in India, or secondary level, is…
December 21, 2023, 8:28 AM IST
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Their Trump, our house: Plenty of fireworks in the two largest democracies. The question for both is the effectiveness of institutions
December 21, 2023, 8:17 AM IST
Every great thinker of democracy worth the salt has understoodit as a process of striving, its imperfections writ large for all to see and debate. Lamenting the passing of some golden age of democracy is…
December 21, 2023, 8:17 AM IST
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Unholy matrimony: An age-old custom can make a wedlock a dead-lock
December 20, 2023, 8:06 AM IST
Eternal vigilance is the price we pay for a healthy democracy. And to his vigilant credit, the BJP MP from Haryana, Dharambir Singh, has detected a “dangerous disease” which is harming our body politic. The…
December 20, 2023, 8:06 AM IST
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Brain’s evolutionary ballet of Neuroplasticity
December 20, 2023, 8:02 AM IST
by Ajaykumar Parasu Brain, as a physical organ, is very peculiar in one aspect when compared to other organs. It has an awareness of itself. There is no way this awareness can be measured, but…
December 20, 2023, 8:02 AM IST
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Pain of loneliness, solace of solitude
December 14, 2023, 9:07 AM IST
By Jug Suraiya Loneliness and solitude. Two words which are often interchanged, though they are not just divergent in meaning but diametrically opposed. Loneliness is often associated with remote, unpeopled places. But, counterintuitively, the condition…
December 14, 2023, 9:07 AM IST
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Secure Parliament but don’t shut out people
December 14, 2023, 9:02 AM IST
A short history of India’s legislative chambers shows why the December 13 breach shouldn’t lead to limited public access. The inviolability of legislatures is at the heart of democracy. Yesterday, two irresponsible citizens broke this…
December 14, 2023, 9:02 AM IST
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Do buy what was said in Dubai
December 14, 2023, 8:57 AM IST
COP28 took a realistic approach to transitioning from fossil fuels. India’s argument that only coal can’t be a climate villain won. But the rich world still isn’t forking out enough cash. COP28 took a realistic…
December 14, 2023, 8:57 AM IST
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Billing problems: Amended criminal bills do well to maintain status quo on adultery but miss out on other reform measures
December 14, 2023, 8:22 AM IST
GOI on Tuesday reintroduced three bills in Lok Sabha to replace two colonial-era codes, IPC and Evidence Act, and also the Code of Criminal Procedure. Earlier, in August, it had introduced the three bills, Bharatiya…
December 14, 2023, 8:22 AM IST
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Guard the house: This December 13 Parliament was far luckier than in 2001. But security lessons remain worryingly unlearnt
December 14, 2023, 8:12 AM IST
It’s a building but much more importantly, it’s also an idea. India’s Parliament is deeply intertwined with India’s democracy. Children see its picture in their schoolbooks and the luckiest of them get to visit it…
December 14, 2023, 8:12 AM IST
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Dances of our democracy
December 14, 2023, 2:00 AM IST
When politicians shake a leg, they get it in the neck Last week, Giriraj Singh slammed Mamata Banerjee for matching steps with Salman, Sonakshi, and Shatrughan at the Kolkata International Film Festival. But the Union…
December 14, 2023, 2:00 AM IST
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For those who love, time is eternity
December 12, 2023, 8:56 AM IST
By Raman Singh Time is not a simple thing that we take it to be, it is pregnant with meaning and mystery. Mankind perishes speedily by thinking of time as real. “The little time I…
December 12, 2023, 8:56 AM IST
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The 70k story: What’s really powering Sensex
December 12, 2023, 8:50 AM IST
Domestic investors betting big, huge consumer market, GOI’s fiscal rectitude & high capex are overriding negatives from skewed growth.Sensex hit 70,000 in intra-day trading yesterday. Nifty hit a record high too. Recently, the aggregate m-cap…
December 12, 2023, 8:50 AM IST
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Political grammar of one article
December 12, 2023, 8:45 AM IST
There was no question of J&K’s current status changing. But SC ruling that President had powers to nullify 370 takes us to the issue of Constitution’s centralising tilt, and its impact on federalism. This was…
December 12, 2023, 8:45 AM IST
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Musk’s X-man factor: Or the impertinence of being Elon
December 12, 2023, 8:40 AM IST
Warren Buffett thinks Elon Musk – the brains powering Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and xAI – is ‘brilliant’. Buffett’s business partner Charlie Munger, who died recently, attributed Musk’s feats to ‘taking on the impossible job’. Venture…
December 12, 2023, 8:40 AM IST
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CM Surprises: BJP’s MP & Chhattisgarh picks play to a clear template for 2024. Keep courting OBCs, and target tribal vote
December 12, 2023, 8:34 AM IST
Following much speculation about its CM picks, BJP has done what it tends to do, proved pundits wrongs. But that Chhattisgarh and MP CMs are surprise picks is unsurprising. OBC for MP OBC consolidation has…
December 12, 2023, 8:34 AM IST
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Kashmir in poll position: SC bench right in its unanimous call J&K special status was stopgap. Statehood, elections are next steps
December 12, 2023, 8:23 AM IST
Parliament had passed the bill scrapping J&K’s special status under Article 370 in August 2019. Yesterday, a 5-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court, through three separate but concurring judgments, put a legal seal on…
December 12, 2023, 8:23 AM IST
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