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Opinion | Brexit and Kashmir: the system in the chaos

4 min read . 06 Sep 2019

Union road and transport minister Nitin Gadkari. (Mint)

Opinion | Can Nitin Gadkari break the deadly ‘chakra-view’ of Indian roads?

5 min read . 08 Aug 2019

Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit died on Saturday, 20 July, at the age of 81. (File photo: HT)

Opinion | How Sheila Dikshit rolled out the world’s biggest clean air project

5 min read . 25 Jul 2019

Conservative leadership contender Boris Johnson. (AFP)

Opinion | Preparing for the new British PM, head in hands

5 min read . 12 Jul 2019

AAP chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. (HT)

Opinion | AAP’s big push for women in Delhi

5 min read . 14 Jun 2019

Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar. (wikimedia commons)

What one can learn from West Bengal or Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar hoo hee

5 min read . 30 May 2019

Opinion | Is India making the world unhappy?

5 min read . 17 May 2019

Opinion | 10 things to talk about in this election

6 min read . 03 May 2019

Voters queue up to cast their vote at a polling station in Bulandshahr on Thursday. (AFP)

Opinion | How to make sense of elections

5 min read . 18 Apr 2019

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Opinion | Scandal of 21 mn missing women voters

5 min read . 05 Apr 2019

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Opinion | How politicians normalized defections

5 min read . 25 Mar 2019

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Opinion | India, Pakistan and the game of loyalties

4 min read . 08 Mar 2019

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Opinion | India’s new ‘attack’ on air pollution

5 min read . 15 Feb 2019

CBI director Alok Verma, who instituted a probe against special director Rakesh Asthana, would have swallowed hard as he watched his entire team of 10 transferred out of Delhi. (Hindustan Times)

Opinion | How governments use job transfers to punish

4 min read . 25 Jan 2019

Apart from the Kohinoor diamond, the return of Vijay Mallya to India—to face debtors whom his grounded Kingfisher Airlines owes around `9,000 crore ($1.3 billion)—is another matter on which India has to spell out its stand. Photo: Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times

Getting back Kohinoor diamond, Vijay Mallya from the UK not easy

4 min read . 22 Apr 2016

The common minimum programme (CMP) worked out by the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is a document that is worthy of study by political scientists and conflict resolution experts. Photo: AFP

Outside In | Jammu and Kashmir, Ireland and the ghost of Pakistan

4 min read . 13 Mar 2015

Anna Hazare’s anti-graft campaign was unique in the way it drew all classes and sections of people who were sick of corruption, which is why his intervention is significant. Photo: Kamal Kishore/PTI

Outside In | Whose land is it anyway

6 min read . 27 Feb 2015