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Opinion

Kashmiri journalists hold placards and protest against 100 days of internet blockade in the region in Srinagar, on Tuesday, November 12, 2019. Internet services have been cut since August 5 when Indian scrapped Jammu and Kashmir's semi-autonomous status under Article 370 of the Constitution

Opinion

100 days of shutdown

Given the weight of decades of suffering, perhaps this time the wall of injustice will crumble, and not the people

By Majid Maqbool

Opinion

Cracks in China's great wall

By Harsh V. Pant
China is reportedly planning to replace Carrie Lam

Opinion

The long shadow of the Ottoman decline

By T.C.A. Raghavan
An 1891 oil painting by Lev Feliksovich Lagorio depicting Russian troops repulsing a Turkish assault against the fortress of Beyazid on June 8, 1877. In the early 20th century, Ottoman decline became the subject of a great deal of interest in India
Like the firecrackers of Diwali the smog will return next year, same time same place, only with a greater fury.

Opinion

Our callousness about the environment

By Anup Sinha
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah speaks to his supporters during a gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, November 10, 2019. Abdullah has unilaterally withdrawn his team's election observers from an official recount of ballots ahead of long-delayed election results.

Opinion

Crystal gazing into Afghanistan’s future

By Anand Arni and Pranay Kotasthane
India Gate, New Delhi, at sunrise. There may come a time in the near future when the current ideas of ‘country’ or ‘nation’ may seem as old and quaint as the steam engine, useful for its time but completely obsolete now.

Opinion

A verdict on the republic

By Ruchir Joshi
Earlier this year, pro-European liberal Zuzana Caputová was elected president of Slovakia, a country which is leading the democratic fightback against authoritarianism in Central Europe

Opinion

The future of liberal democracy in Europe

By Timothy Garton Ash
A paramilitary trooper in Jammu on Monday, November 4, 2019. Promised more jobs, more factories, what the Kashmiris instead have got since August 5 are more troops, more restrictions

Opinion

Kashmir decision has backfired horribly

By Ramachandra Guha
Between 1995 and 2018, India initiated as many as 919 anti-dumping investigations of which 515 were against RCEP countries and 223 against China.

Opinion

The dragon in the room

By Nitya Nanda
Babri Masjid being demolished by 'kar sevaks' in 1992

Opinion

Looking back at 'the Ayodhya years'

By Swapan Dasgupta
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Comment
In the film 'Bruce Almighty', Jim Carrey plays a TV reporter who undermines a colleague. There is a striking resemblance between Bruce’s colleague and a TV anchor nearer home

The mouth is firmly shut

By Chandrima S. Bhattacharya
The NRC brings the poor face to face with a State where the document has become critical, introducing people to written words, new terminologies and changed meanings, is not just sudden but also one they have no past experience of.

NRC: The State as a dehumanized machine

By Bhargabi Das
Other factors are more powerful than technology in dictating inequality in India. If anything, technology has helped greatly increase the wages of the unskilled and medium skilled, at least in the services sector.

The real reasons for economic inequality

By Rakesh Kumar
Celebrations on October 11 at Brookside, the house in Shillong where Rabindranath Tagore stayed a hundred years ago

When Tagore visited Shillong

By Sudipta Bhattacharjee
Telegram is a popular encrypted messaging app, which lets its users send voice notes, photos, videos and files of all types. It hit the global headlines because of its extensive use in the ongoing Hong Kong protests. Telegram allows users to cloak their telephone numbers

The Telegram of the 21st century

By Atanu Biswas
Protesters at a rally in London on January 30, 2017. A lack of verbal ingenuity never stopped US President Donald Trump. And an animus toward a certain animal has long, well, hounded him. He has likened women he dislikes to dogs, and repeatedly tweeted of people being fired like dogs

Why Donald Trump hates your dog

By Frank Bruni / New York Times News Service
Editorials
Jaganmohan Reddy at a meeting with party MPs, at Tadepalli, Andhra Pradesh, on May 25, 2019. His government has cleared an earlier provision that empowers secretaries of government departments to file complaints against the media for publishing defamatory news
Jaganmohan Reddy at a meeting with party MPs, at Tadepalli, Andhra Pradesh, on May 25, 2019. His government has cleared an earlier provision that empowers secretaries of government departments to file complaints against the media for publishing defamatory news

The media's right to be critical of the government

By The Editorial Board
Letters
One of the figures is that of a woman
One of the figures is that of a woman

Reflecting diversity in wartime

By The Telegraph
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