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Opinion

Ulaanbaatar's Gandan Monastery survived the anti-Buddhist purges of the 1930s because the communists needed a token monastery to show visitors that religious practices remained undisturbed under socialism

Opinion

The civilizational dimension of foreign policy

With Mongolia's president in India, some trade agreements may be signed but soft power linkages must proceed autonomously

By Swapan Dasgupta

Opinion

Judicial transfers should be made transparent

By Arghya Sengupta
When Madras High Court Justice Vijaya Tahilramani was recommended for transfer to the Meghalaya High Court, she chose to resign with grace and dignity that are often conspicuously absent in the echelons of power in India today

Opinion

A Pakistan inside the very heart of India

By Kabir Rana
A view of Barsana, a town in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district. Pakistan’s poor development indicators are attributed to the unstable political atmosphere in that country. Surely UP’s similarity with Pakistan in these fields does not bode well for India.
As state electricity boards’ losses mounted, they invested less and less in generation, and state governments, which felt forced to meet their voters’ needs, imported power.

Opinion

The mess in the power sector

By Ashok V. Desai
Ani-Brexit protesters demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London on Thursday, September 12, 2019. There is still a chance — perhaps a last chance — for one of the world’s most venerable democracies to help turn the global tide against nationalist populism

Opinion

An existential vote may soon be upon Britain

By Timothy Garton Ash
A woman breaks down in Bowbazar

Opinion

If we have Hindi Diwas, why not Kannada Day?

By Upala Sen
What we knew, we also forget

Opinion

What we knew, we also forgot

By Sankarshan Thakur
At the memorial meeting of Arun Jaitley, leaders cutting across party lines were unanimous in their assessment of the former finance minister being a ‘good friend’ to many people.

Opinion

Amit Shah to D. Raja, only fond memories of Arun Jaitley

By The Telegraph
Shankar Guha Niyogi said,

Opinion

Remembering Shankar Guha Niyogi

By Ramachandra Guha
Protesters carry bricks during a demonstration near Central Government Complex in Hong Kong on Sunday, September 15, 2019, as violence flared anew after thousands of pro-democracy supporters marched through downtown in defiance of a police ban

Opinion

Social media can make and break a movement

By Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times News Service
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Comment
Today, awareness of the social cost of an industry is the refuge of losers. Profit evokes the same urgency as the need for victory in battle

You cannot reason with celebration of money

By Shyam G. Menon
A view of Dzukou Valley, on the border between Nagaland and Manipur. Much of what the Nagas consider as their ancestral land are also the homes of Kukis and other tribes. They also fall within the feudal notion of land of the erstwhile kingdom of Manipur

The ethnic homeland versus the territory

By Pradip Phanjoubam
The stranglehold of the political class increases every year, often in the name of cleansing the system. Senior officers thus concentrate on compliance, taking care not to fall foul of the system even though many of them differ with their bosses.

What ails the Indian Administrative Service

By Jawhar Sircar
Aurangazeb's tomb in Khuldabad, in striking contrast with the tombs of his forefathers, has few embellishments save a modest dome or two and minarets

The austere beauty of Aurangzeb's tomb

By Soumitra Das
There is still a lot to unpack in the ties between MIT, one of America’s most elite universities, and billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. For now, what we can say is that his influence exacerbated one of the most pressing problems in the sciences: the systematic exclusion of women

US universities are addicted to billionaires

By Farhad Manjoo / New York Times News Service
The message of the grammar book was clear. Hello! We are a feudal, casteist, colonial, communal, patriarchal society. However much English you speak, how can you run away from us? We will get you!

A grammar horror story for Friday the 13th

By Chandrima S. Bhattacharya
Editorials
Amit Shah addresses a rally in Jamtara, Jharkhand, on September 18, 2019. His belligerence against the kernel of democracy — a Parliament that is accommodating of political parties and ideologies of every kind — may be based on bullish confidence.
Amit Shah addresses a rally in Jamtara, Jharkhand, on September 18, 2019. His belligerence against the kernel of democracy — a Parliament that is accommodating of political parties and ideologies of every kind — may be based on bullish confidence.

Sometimes, the threat to democracy is from within

By The Editorial Board
Letters
The pangolin is a shy, harmless mammal hunted for its meat and scales, with the latter mainly being used in traditional Chinese medicine although no scientific research proves that they have medicinal value.
The pangolin is a shy, harmless mammal hunted for its meat and scales, with the latter mainly being used in traditional Chinese medicine although no scientific research proves that they have medicinal value.

India is a node in the illegal pangolin trade

By The Telegraph
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