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Recently retired information commissioner M. Sridhar Acharyulu has referred, in a letter to the President, to a form of intimidation whereby cases are often filed against information commissioners as individuals

Opinion

A government turned against itself

The government filing cases against the CIC would be almost comic if it were not an attack on the rationale of the institution

By The Editorial Board

Opinion

Lies mark Modi's AgustaWestland drive

By Manini Chatterjee
In his zeal as the BJP's biggest vote catcher, Narendra Modi sometimes forgets that he is also the prime minister of India, and a particularly egregious instance of this memory lapse was on display last week

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The Congress is trying to out-cow the BJP

By Mukul Kesavan
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addresses the gathering at the Jagran forum on the 75th anniversary of Dainik Jagran newspaper, in New Delhi, Friday, December 7, 2018.
President Donald Trump walks to speak to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Saturday, December 8, 2018, for the short trip to Andrews Air Force Base en route to Philadelphia to attend the Army-Navy Football Game.

Opinion

The nasty responses of powerful people

By Ruchir Joshi
The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, is often cited as an example of how world-class academic institutions can be built within a relatively short period of time, even in India

Opinion

Guidelines on hiring foreign faculty are vague

By Pushkar
Literature vs Traffic, an art installation by Luzinterruptus

Opinion

Gandhi is more relevant in the post-truth era

By G.N. Devy
Part of the rites of area domination in the past month was 19-month-old Hiba Nisar, who underwent surgery for a pellet-hole in her right pupil, and three Kashmiri youngsters done to death, one of them by dagger or by sword run across his throat

Opinion

Kashmir: Under a hobnailed boot

By Sankarshan Thakur
Sikh pilgrims visit the shrine of their spiritual leader Guru Nanak Dev in Kartarpur, Pakistan, on Wednesday, November 28, 2018. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan launched the ground-breaking ceremony of the religious corridor between India and Pakistan.

Opinion

India, Pakistan should think about their youth

By Mehmal Sarfraz
When his three-year term ended in 2016, Raghuram Rajan waited to be reappointed for a second term, as is the tradition. Instead, Delhi called for applications for governorship: it could not have chosen a better way to insult him

Opinion

What Raghuram Rajan did not say

By Ashok V. Desai
Natwar Thakkar's life’s work was to forge an honourable compact between the Nagas and the Indian Union.

Opinion

Nagaland's enduring Gandhian spirit

By Ramachandra Guha
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Chinese researcher He Jiankui at a conference in Hong Kong on November 28, 2018. He made his first public comments about his claim to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies. The uproar over the unproven report has researchers worried about a backlash.

Gene editing is going to test our values

By Tarun Wadhwa
Fire brigade personnel work at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai on November 29, 2008, after terrorists attacked the hotel and other locations in the city

We need to be a more caring nation

By Ashok Ganguly
If Mayavati's Bahujan Samaj Party fails to make an impact, the Congress will be free to attack her bargaining power in Uttar Pradesh and perhaps even force her to align with it in states like Maharashtra and Gujarat

What the election semi-finals mean for Mayavati

By The Telegraph
Memory Bank: Writer Sailen Sarkar hears out Khoshain Sheikh, who was 16 when he came to K-Plot

Meet the survivors of the 1943 Bengal Famine

By Prasun Chaudhuri
ABSTRACT: Requiem to Beauteous Bygone Whispers

A Lament For the Whisperers

By Sankarshan Thakur
Concept of terrorism

Better information sharing on security needed

By Anthony Khatchaturian
Editorials

Despite growth, wages in India remain low

By The Editorial Board
Letters

The army chief should not engage in loose talk

By The Telegraph
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