July 7, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
The shuttering of Koo, a microblogging website similar to Twitter (now X), has rekindled discussions about why India doesn’t have its own Google, Facebook, or WhatsApp, and whether a protectionist approach like China’s is necessary…
July 7, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 6, 2024, 10:22 AM IST
Taylor Swift (34) has over 110mn monthly listeners on Spotify. Arijit Singh (37) has over 37mn. Rahul Dev (RD) Burman, who died in 1994 aged 54, has an impressive base of 9mn monthly listeners on…
July 6, 2024, 10:22 AM IST
July 6, 2024, 8:10 AM IST
Between farm and table, our food lives in refrigerators. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilleyis an investigation of this cold chain. It spans warehouses, trucks, shipping containers, display…
July 6, 2024, 8:10 AM IST
July 6, 2024, 8:00 AM IST
In the end, it was sunshine and showers in Britain, the morning after it acted on the advice of one of its leading tabloids and changed its “manager”. Despite Euro 2024, the reference was not…
July 6, 2024, 8:00 AM IST
July 6, 2024, 7:55 AM IST
-By Stuti Malhotra In the annals of recent memory, the spectacle of our beloved ‘boys in blue’ shedding tears has captured the collective heart of our nation. These tears, emanating from sheer joy and happiness,…
July 6, 2024, 7:55 AM IST
July 6, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Why does India have so few fun parades? The sea of cheering cricket fans along Marine Drive, Mumbai tells us something about us: why are pure fun parades so few and far between in this…
July 6, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 6, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
How identity politics works across democracies Two years ago, when Rishi Sunak’s party elected him Britain’s first Asian-origin PM, the buzz was whether the country had entered a post-race era. Today, when voters have crashed…
July 6, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 5, 2024, 7:56 AM IST
TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu met Modi in Delhi yesterday, seeking enhanced assistance for Andhra Pradesh. Last week, Nitish Kumar’s JDU passed a resolution demanding special category status for Bihar. With the two NDA allies vital…
July 5, 2024, 7:56 AM IST
July 5, 2024, 7:36 AM IST
Bhole Baba is absconding, after over a hundred people died in a stampede at his Hathras congregation. One response to this tragedy is to ask if this baba is ‘real’ or ‘fake’. But this is…
July 5, 2024, 7:36 AM IST
July 5, 2024, 7:08 AM IST
Satish K Kapoor Maun, silence is the dialect of true worship. It is the language of infinity, of Ashabda Brahmn, the soundless word that is audible to those who can transcend ordinary consciousness. Krishn says…
July 5, 2024, 7:08 AM IST
July 5, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Biden’s age isn’t the issue, his mental acuity is. Even older heads of govt have done fine Biden’s recent presidential debate debacle has sharpened the focus on his age. At 81, Biden is not only…
July 5, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 5, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Jharkhand’s swift CM change shows how crucial polls there & in Maha & Haryana are Hemant Soren is back as Jharkhand CM. His swift taking back of the post from Champai Soren, who held the…
July 5, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 5, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Leaked question papers and other forms of cheating prove our education system is a total failure We addressed him as Sir or Mr Peterson, but among us schoolboys he was always Gup, as in gup-shup,…
July 5, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 4, 2024, 7:17 AM IST
Mona Mehta Even to someone who has been living under a rock and woke up to India’s victory in the T20 World Cup, irritated by the sound of crackers bursting in the middle of the…
July 4, 2024, 7:17 AM IST
July 4, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Hindu majority is under no threat from conversions. HCs should know this basic data point Can an untruth told loud enough and often enough prevail over the truth? That this danger is very real today,…
July 4, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 4, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Stampedes, like the one in Hathras, are frequent as official permissions for events don’t ask basic questions As fatalities climb beyond 120 from the stampede at a religious event in UP’s Hathras, authorities have promised…
July 4, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 3, 2024, 8:36 AM IST
By invitation: Anant Goenka India becoming T20 world champions was a fabulous moment for India, for cricket. For me, what makes the win special is that in an era of bullies, the nice guys have…
July 3, 2024, 8:36 AM IST
July 3, 2024, 7:40 AM IST
Two decades ago, controversies around the measurement of poverty in National Sample Surveys set off what became known as the Great Indian Poverty Debate. We seem to have come full circle with new controversies about…
July 3, 2024, 7:40 AM IST
July 3, 2024, 7:25 AM IST
Though it is early days, a stormy inaugural session of the 18th Lok Sabha is belying expectations that national politics has re-entered a coalition phase that will bring consensus-building, effective floor management, and backroom parleys…
July 3, 2024, 7:25 AM IST
July 3, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
LS began with good political theatre. A tougher test of its efficacy will come once legislative biz starts Lok Sabha’s proceedings, starting with the oath ceremony, were loud. And clear. Voices carried. Rhetoric-tipped arrows flew….
July 3, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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