Movie halls, popcorn & The End.
Leher Kala writes: Cinema halls have had a good run for a 100-plus years, but the grounds they stood on have shifted. The change mimics the natural cycles of human life throughout history …
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Opinion: The Timing Of Manish Sisodia’s Raids Says Everything.
Ashutosh OpinionUpdated: August 20, 2022 9:01 am IST 64 The CBI raid at the home of Manish Sisodia, the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, alerts that the incessant targeting of Opposition leaders by …
‘Is this how justice ends?’: Bilkis Bano’s question should haunt the Indian republic.
We live in an age where crime and justice, innocence and guilt, have no autonomous meaning of their own, other than as part of a communal project Written by Pratap Bhanu Mehta This remission …
Opinion: BJP’s Revamp Gives Away Its Nerves About Karnataka – And Yogi.
Ashutosh OpinionUpdated: August 17, 2022 5:43 pm IST Major purging in the BJP. Nitin Gadkari being dropped from the party’s highest decision-making bodies – the BJP Parliamentary Board and Election Committee – has a …
Supreme Court’s contradictory verdicts reinforce the need for a Bail Act.
The large percentage of undertrials in prison and pre-trial detentions are often a result of the unfair application of bail provisions. Written by Upma Gautam | Updated: August 17, 2022 3:52:27 am Upma Gautam writes: The …
The success of India at 75 resonates beyond its borders, writes the British High Commissioner to India.
The UK has been the beneficiary of great talent of Indian heritage as a consequence of the two nations’ long, complex and sometimes painful history. Both must now look ahead to the next 75 …
Towards an India where women lead.
Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit writes: Women’s emancipation and empowerment need to be first fought for at the level of ideas and narratives. It is at the level of the mind and intellect where the real …
P Chidambaram writes: ‘Sovereign, Secular, Democratic’.
Democracy is not just voting once every five years. Democracy has to be practised every day through dialogue, discussion, debate and dissent. By that standard, democracy in India is gasping for breath Written by P …
India’s big problem of low-quality employment.
The paradigm driving employment and labour policies must change to enable generation of better-quality livelihoods Written by Arun Maira | August 13, 2022 4:10:49 am The dominant “theory-in-use” to increase employment is to improve the ease …
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The Nine Lives of Nitish Kumar.
Drama in Bihar is fascinating. But this is not a moment for euphoria for the Opposition, or a pathway to national regeneration Written by Pratap Bhanu Mehta Updated: August 11, 2022 8:54:36 am JD(U) leader …