Opinion

After the brilliant box-office performance of Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s action drama ‘Animal’, Bollywood could not have asked for a more promising release than ‘Dunki’ in the last month of 2023

China has manipulated its cordial relations with Myanmar to its own advantage, sowing seeds of exploitation in that country and pushing it towards endless internal disturbances and turmoil

The BJP’s sweeping electoral victory in three states — Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan — speaks of the politics of good governance and development. People have gradually realised that with Modi, India is invincible and has a great future

Tanushree Podder’s ‘Thorns in the Crown’ is a captivating historical fiction that unfolds against the backdrop of India’s quest for independence from British rule

There was no way Nehru could have stopped the UN interference in Kashmir or pushed the Pakistan Army out of POK. But this precarious situation was largely the result of his own egoistic personality and obnoxiously ideological and flippantly moralistic wor...

The Opposition’s desperate attempts to create a divide between North vs South India and blame political setbacks on Hindus reflect their growing frustration and underscore their uneasiness and inability to accept their misfortunes

Uttarkashi: While Uttarakhand has every right to congratulate itself, one hopes the state internalizes the key learnings from Silkyara so that it becomes conditioned to deliver every day not just in moments of disaster

India’s neighbours are moving away from India due to Chinese intervention and attempts. India has to redraw its policies to ensure better and lasting relationships including handling its internal fault lines

The unwinnable wars in Ukraine and Israel have wounded Western civilisation as fatally as colonialism and genocide of indigenous peoples by settler-colonists in America and Australia fatally wounded the British Empire

Israel could do well to take a leaf out of the Indian book on how to conduct operations against terror without alienating the population and facing condemnation from the international community

Wilders’s victory caps a recent, but what appears to be an inexorable, lurch towards the Far-Right in Europe

Through its sustained efforts, the army has firmly established that it genuinely cares for the well-being of the people of J&K and that’s why Pakistan’s desperate efforts to demonise the Indian Army have not succeeded

Since the swearing-in of Narendra Modi in May 2014, India has climbed to the top of the FDI rankings, surpassing both China and the US, and improved its ranking on the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business index by 12 positions

The challenge of climate change and adaptation is very complex. It needs a multi-stakeholder approach where institutions and communities come together to mitigate, adapt and build resilience

The voice of an assertive and confident culture with its ancient values and traditions is resonating everywhere, which will make all right-thinking Indians smile

Much would depend on whether the Congress holds, if not improves, its position in the coming weeks or loses momentum as the Modi juggernaut gathers speed and the BJP’s vastly superior resources of money and power come into play