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Portrait of Rabindranath Tagore by Jyotirindranath Tagore

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A Tagore brother that time forgot

Besides nurturing Rabindranath Tagore's genius, Jyotirindranath enriched Bengali culture through his own contributions

By Bhaswati Chakravorty

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In democracies, morality is irrelevant

By Ashok V. Desai
The recent report on the sabotage of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 bid for the presidency of the United States is unlikely to lead to legal action, as US president Donald Trump (pictured) is pretty well immune to legal processes

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The minorities that can't be purged

By Mukul Kesavan
File photo (August 2017) of the Sunday market in Kashgar in China's Xinjiang region, along the Silk Route. Nervous of a restive minority population, the Chinese State has responded by encouraging Han settlement to shift Xinjiang’s demographic balance
Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Beijing on Friday, May 17, 2019. At a recent meeting, he asked Sushma Swaraj whether India would continue to buy Iranian oil in the face of the US decision to end a waiver on sanctions against trade with Iran

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Challenging time for foreign policy

By Charu Sudan Kasturi
Every prediction at the close of voting tonight will carry the very opposite of conviction. It will carry a hidden nervousness

Opinion

Admissions of feared defeat

By Gopalkrishna Gandhi
(From left) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati and RLD chief Ajit Singh during their joint election campaign rally in Firozabad, on April 20, 2019.

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All eyes are on Uttar Pradesh and Bengal

By Manini Chatterjee
Narendra Modi in 2012. In TV interviews as prime minister, each interview has meant a blaze of publicity, and each question has been a peg on which to hang a long speech while the silent interviewer smiles ingratiatingly

Opinion

No questions please: Modi and the media

By Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
BJP activist Priyanka Sharma was arrested for allegedly posting a morphed image of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on social media.

Opinion

What Priyanka Sharma's arrest says about us

By Arghya Sengupta
The bust of Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar that was vandalised during Amit Shah’s roadshow in Calcutta on on Tuesday, May 14, 2019. Those who destroyed it did not know that Tagore once said Vidyasagar's greatness lay in his determined, uncompromising humanism

Opinion

Jai Shri…Vidyasagar

By Upala Sen
Satyajit Ray's film, 'Aranyer Din Ratri', which examined the complex equation between the savage and the civilized, was quintessentially Elwinian in spirit

Opinion

How Hindutva sees Dalits and adivasis

By Uddalak Mukherjee
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In Assam, prime minister Narendra Modi has given the assurance that a proposal by the state government for the inclusion of six communities — Koch-Rajbongshi, Tai-Ahom, Chutia, Moran, Muttock and the adivasi tea-tribes — in the ST list will be taken into consideration.

Tribal status: the race to become primitive

By Pradip Phanjoubam
The Seasteading Institute promotes the creation of “floating ocean cities” as a “revolutionary solution” to some of the world’s most pressing problems such as rising sea levels, overpopulation and poor governance by “reimagining civilization”

Are floating ocean cities legal?

By Prabhakar Singh
Once in five years. You can imagine. How’s the josh? There was josh. Now it’s gosh.

How's the 'hosh'?

By Sankarshan Thakur
Of course the temple was wrong. People occupying the streets illegally had made an illegal construction. But it made the pavement look like something else. It had sprouted like a flower in the middle of waste.

Not for the gods of small things

By Chandrima S. Bhattacharya
Inside Calcutta's Magen David synagogue. The fact that the city's synagogues have been looked after by generations of Muslim caretakers has been a revelation for visitors and the media, which, in our increasingly polarized world, pit Jews and Muslims as opposing communities

A slice of Jewish Calcutta

By Jael Silliman
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his way to file his nomination papers in Varanasi on Friday, April 26, 2019.

No stone unturned in Varanasi

By The Telegraph
Editorials
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur at the BJP state headquarters in Bhopal on April 21, 2019. Her assertion that Nathuram Godse, Mahatma Gandhi’s killer, was a patriot and remains so forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi to say he would never ‘forgive’ her
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur at the BJP state headquarters in Bhopal on April 21, 2019. Her assertion that Nathuram Godse, Mahatma Gandhi’s killer, was a patriot and remains so forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi to say he would never ‘forgive’ her

Modi's reaction to Thakur's remark: comic irony

By The Editorial Board
Letters
Prime minister Narendra Modi arrives in Kedarnath for a two-day pilgrimage to Himalayan shrines, Saturday, May 18, 2019.
Prime minister Narendra Modi arrives in Kedarnath for a two-day pilgrimage to Himalayan shrines, Saturday, May 18, 2019.

Modi's shawl: Ignore the fine print

By The Telegraph
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