An objecting Sena, capitulating governments lead India down a dangerous path

While everyone is entitled to freedom of expression in appropriate forums, no one should be permitted to drag each and every issue to the streets, excite dormant passions, advocate disrespect for law and order and incite violence, President Sanjiva Reddy said

A film release overhung by fear, children attacked in a schoolbus — this R-Day dawns amid sobering images

India’s relationship with ASEAN continues to be afflicted by the gap between promise and performance

Creating it was an act of audacity. Maintaining it is proving to be a daunting task

In Ursula K Le Guin’s care, fantasy and science fiction attained the age of majority

Disqualification of AAP MLAs is questionable on both legal and procedural grounds

The Indira Gandhi-led group is moving the Supreme Court against the CEC order on the symbol.

The Academy Award nominations are diverse. With streaming services making their mark, cinema is set to go online

India’s economy is not doing well. Only carefully crafted policy reforms can turn it around

Shiv Sena vows to go it alone, but its strategy looks riddled with contradictions

PM Modi projected a confident nation at Davos. At home, he must address government’s mixed record on ease-of-business

Chief Justice of India must clear the air on the allocation of cases controversy

Pressures of a different Dalit imagination are colliding against strategies of containment of an old politics

Controversy over Kerala Governor’s Budget speech underlines need for the office to be non-partisan, and to be seen to be so too

Addressing a large public meeting in Yavatmal (Maharashtra), Mrs Gandhi said even if others, who were responsible for the mistakes and excesses were not willing to own up, she would own the responsibility for those mistakes as well.

Kabul hotel siege is a reminder that US plan is not working in Afghanistan. India must tread warily

Google has discovered there isn’t enough cyberspace to keep up with sanskari Indians

At Davos, India needs to outline its vision to make growth inclusive

Indira Gandhi said history would decide whether the declaration of Emergency was justified or not, but she felt that the health of the country at that time deserved a bitter medicine.

State should rope in scholars with a record in building centres of learning to helm ‘Institutions of Eminence’

To ally with Congress or not to — is not the biggest question facing a party losing its claim to being a national player

The junior HRD minister must not be allowed to distract from urgent questions about the state of education

And there are lessons on the nature of politics today in the shutdown