Cancellation of Mamata Banerjee talk by St Stephen’s college, silence that followed, lets down liberal values

It is not a demand for social justice but proportional power-sharing that underlies the new quota agitations

R S Sharma misses the point: All critics ask is to not make the number compulsory

The release of the correspondence between a prime minister and home minister would seriously impair and hinder free functioning of parliamentary government and collective responsibility, Shanti Bhushan said.

It’s time the cricketing metaphors for Pakistan’s prime minister-elect left gracefully for the pavilion

Srikrishna Commitee and draft data bill show the way ahead, but lose GPS signal on some stretches

NRC threatens to stoke anxieties related to religion, culture, ethnicity. Political leaders must step delicately, handle with care

We need to acknowledge marginalisation and confront it head-on

Modern nations are products of migration, and all the richer for it. NRC process doesn’t seem alive to this reality

By holding Justice Goel’s ruling in SC-ST case against him, Ministers Paswan, Athawale, Kushwaha take an ill-judged step

TRAI chief’s bravado on Aadhaar does nothing to add to debate, illustrates social media is no place to advocate complex policy

The point behind it is simple: Aadhaar does not contribute to increasing any of your other digital vulnerabilities

The conference approved a summit meeting scheduled for Havana, in September 1979, but skirted a Cambodian demand that Vietnam be thrown out.

Morarji Desai insisted on Charan Singh taking back the allegations he made against the former’s son, Kanthi Desai, and also the statement that Desai’s cabinet consisted of “impotent” men who had dilli-dallied in dealing with Mrs Gandhi.

National Commission for Women lives up to its record of being a foot-soldier of frivolousness

Medical Council of India guidelines are unfair to people with disabilities.

Delhi must set aside scepticism, prepare to welcome and engage with Pakistan’s new PM.

I think the Honourable Supreme Court has got it wrong about lynching. It is not the lack of laws but a lack of will to enforce the law which is the issue.

The photo of Rahul Gandhi’s forced hug of a stiff and stunned Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament could become part of the Congress’s campaign for 2019.

The no-confidence motion was lost, so was an opportunity to answer the questions of the people.

Narendra Modi’s hand of friendship has been as firmly slapped away by the military men next door as Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s was when he famously travelled across the Wagah border in that gilded bus in the winter of 1999.

Modi government has added an insidious dimension to the nexus. It is hidden in plain sight

Footballer’s case points to the country’s failure to address everyday racism.

People converted to other religions for reasons that were independent of the coercive powers of the state