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Opinion | The Academy’s disgraceful choice of a literature laureate

4 min read . 16 Oct 2019

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s statue at a memorial dedicated to him in Mumbai. Photo: Alamy

Looking for the real Savarkar

7 min read . 11 Oct 2019

Even if nobody else followed, he would walk that path—walk alone, others could follow. Rabindranath Tagore had said that first

Thus spake the Mahatma

11 min read . 04 Oct 2019

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Opinion | Criticisms of Gandhi are often petty and miss the basic point

4 min read . 02 Oct 2019

Swachh Bharat Mission is one of the largest cleanliness drives in the world (Mint file)

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Opinion | The Gates Foundation should not rely on government data

4 min read . 18 Sep 2019

Nagarkar died in Mumbai on Thursday evening (Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint)

Obituary: Kiran Nagarkar, the writer who made us remember

3 min read . 07 Sep 2019

People show their documents as their names weren't included from the NRC in Kamrup on Tuesday.

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Opinion | A registry of citizens that could warp the original idea of India

4 min read . 04 Sep 2019

Older, meaner, atavistic ideas of nationalism are rising.

A message from the Khan Market gang

10 min read . 27 Aug 2019

Author Salman Rushdie. (Photo: AFP)

The multiverse of Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’

9 min read . 23 Aug 2019

Opinion | Where the Irish and Kashmiri stories converge and diverge

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Opinion | Where the Irish and Kashmiri stories converge and diverge

4 min read . 21 Aug 2019

Opinion | Some difficult questions on the state of affairs in Kashmir

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Opinion | Some difficult questions on the state of affairs in Kashmir

4 min read . 07 Aug 2019

If Boris Johnson becomes PM, he will assume leadership at a time when the old model of leadership in the UK lies exposed and a new one is yet to be born (Photo: Getty Images)

Boris Johnson: An unsuitable boy

11 min read . 16 Jul 2019

In multilingual urban India, there is little excuse for not knowing more than two languages if you are from elsewhere, your own and the dominant language of the city in which you live (assuming those are different) (HT file)

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Opinion | Prioritizing a language in a multilingual India

4 min read . 10 Jul 2019

Britain has landed squarely in a spot it had never really known if it wanted (Reuters file)

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Opinion | Brexit is now an Oxford Union debate with real consequences

4 min read . 27 Jun 2019

Protesters gather outside the Legislative Council during a protest against a proposed extradition law in Hong Kong. (Photographer: Sanjit Das/Bloomberg)

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Opinion | Hong Kong’s lonely march in the fight to protect its freedom

4 min read . 13 Jun 2019

Girish Karnad wrote in Kannada, and was fluent in several Indian languages. (Mint)

Girish Karnad, the Renaissance man of Indian culture, dies at 81

4 min read . 10 Jun 2019

Ranji taking his batting stance. (Alamy)

Narrating history through cricket

6 min read . 03 Jun 2019

Godse killed Gandhi because Gandhi showed that through the power of moral persuasion, one could electrify a nation to rise above its base instincts and forswear violence

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Opinion | The gravity of an election result and the recovery we must make

4 min read . 29 May 2019

Opinion| The wisdom we have gained over the past five years

Opinion| The wisdom we have gained over the past five years

4 min read . 16 May 2019

Opinion | The wisdom we have gained from the past five years

Opinion | The wisdom we have gained from the past five years

5 min read . 15 May 2019