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Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI Photo)

Tavleen Singh writes: I’m worried PM’s appeal for austerity will lead to tokenism

May 17, 2026 7:18 pm

This time of war and tribulation can be turned into a time of real change for the way in which India is governed. Instead of cutting down on small things, could it not be time for us to start cutting down on the big things? It will help hugely to make us ‘viksit’ on target.

Ae Maalik Tere Bande Ham

April 26, 2026 5:57 am

A song that asks for no allegiance and seeks no conversion, but simply holds up a mirror to your moral self. A meditation on awareness, perhaps, is exactly what our world needs right now.

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Tavleen Singh writes: Indians who are patriotic rarely feel need to say they are

November 02, 2025 7:40 am

The most patriotic thing that can be done for our beloved motherland is for us to all participate in Swachh Bharat 2.0 and make our cities and villages look less filthy than they currently do.

Tavleen Singh writes: Real patriotism versus false nationalism

January 26, 2025 10:30 pm

It is time for our political leaders to be held to account for the damage they have done and to remind them that spreading poison may win a few elections, but it is destroying India.

Brutalised children of Gaza: Killing the innocent — and our innocence

November 15, 2023 5:03 pm

They are seen sitting beside dead parents, rummaging in the debris of their homes and completely unprotected from the weapons that will kill them quickly or slowly or disable them for life. The legal systems that should protect their rights have collapsed, the families within which they are nurtured have been killed.

Siddaramaiah leads by example, urging people to felicitate him with books, rather than shawls and garlands. (Express File Photo)

Janaki Nair writes: CM Siddaramaiah and the constitutional patriotism of the Karnataka model

October 07, 2023 8:44 am

In consulting all parties over the Cauvery Water Sharing dispute, in placing on hold the needlessly hasty and unthought adoption of the New Education Policy, and in removing the more egregious alterations to school textbooks, the government may be cautiously crafting an alternative strategy for change

Amid Manipur violence, this Independence Day, a question for Indians: What is patriotism?

August 17, 2023 5:22 pm

Patriots don’t hate, they also don’t stand by as an audience while people are being degraded and hurt. That’s what Gandhiji taught Sarojini Naidu — and all of us

Patriotism is the only way to keep India united, says Karnataka CM Bommai in Pune

August 14, 2022 10:46 am

Bommai launched the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign at the Amanora Township in Hadapsar area in Pune on Saturday in the presence of Aniruddha Deshpande, managing director, City Corporation Limited (CCL), C T Ravi, member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly, Aditya Deshpande and Vivek Kulkarni from CCL.