Wordle, A Gentle Obsession - By Mukul Kesavan
Mukul Kesavan | Sunday January 30, 2022Is Wordle is the purest pastime in the English-speaking world? It is. Let me count the ways. One, this 5 by 6 grid of thirty squares is free. Two, you don't need an app to play it, Safari or Chrome will do. In a cluttered online world, where the sinu
Blog: Who's Going To Pay For The Budget Goodies?
IP Bajpai | Sunday January 30, 2022If you look at the pink newspapers, you would believe the budget is like Christmas and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is Santa Claus.
Opinion: Akhilesh Yadav Is Correct In Asking For Ban On Opinion Polls
Praveen Chakravarty | Tuesday January 25, 2022These opinion polls are not merely reflective of the opinions of Indian voters but a strong determinant of their voting behaviour too. The Election Commission of India cannot continue to turn a blind eye to this dubious practice.
Opinion: Netaji's Growing Status In Project Political Hindutva
Aunindyo Chakravarty | Tuesday January 25, 2022Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has become what the anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss would have called a 'floating signifier' - a sign or an idea whose original content has disappeared, and it can now receive any significance.
Blog: Imagine My Plight - A Muslim, Non-Vegetarian Bachelor
Waseem Ahmad | Tuesday January 25, 2022This is among my learnings: if you are a bachelor, it's a problem; if you are a non-vegetarian bachelor, it's an even bigger problem. And at the top of the heap of problems is being a Muslim, non-vegetarian bachelor.
Opinion: No, Modi-ji, We Did Not Get Independence In 2014
Priyanka Chaturvedi | Monday January 24, 2022The only explanation is that this is a vindictive and insecure government which wants only its own decisions to be seen as worth remembering.
Opinion: What Mukesh Ambani Bought With 100 Million Pounds In UK
Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Monday January 24, 2022From smartphones to Tesla Inc. cars, lithium-ion batteries are everywhere. But when Asia's richest man went shopping in England with 100 million pounds ($136 million), he came back with humble sodium.
Opinion: Another Modi Message To Lutyens' Delhi On Transfer Of Power
Aunindyo Chakravarty | Sunday January 23, 2022Why did Indira Gandhi choose to erect a memorial to soldiers who had given their lives for the Bangladesh War right under the archway of that monument to the colonial army, India Gate? And why has PM Modi chosen to extinguish its fire and merge it in
Opinion: Amazon's 200-Crore Fine In India Will Seriously Warn Off Investors
Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Thursday January 20, 2022What should be an ordinary commercial dispute between Amazon.com Inc. and the founders of a near-bankrupt retailer is shining a harsh light on the quality of legal and regulatory protection investors actually receive in India.
Opinion: Why Some Vaccinated People Resist Omicron and Others Don't
By Faye Flam, Bloomberg | Thursday January 20, 2022The omicron variant spreads so rapidly that sometimes it feels as if resistance is futile. It's disheartening to hear of omicron infecting people who are up-to-date on their shots and wear an N95 mask every time they leave home.
Blog: The Kashmir Press Club Stands Erased. Another Strike At Democracy
Nazir Masoodi | Tuesday January 18, 2022Kashmiri American poet Aga Shahid Ali has written of a "country without a post office''. Kashmir Press Club was the post office of journalists - the last bastion of free space in the Valley is gone.
Anushka Sharma's Diamond Tribute To Husband Virat - by Shobhaa De
Shobhaa De | Tuesday January 18, 2022Yes, Virat Kohli, you sure did good. And so did your wife Anushka Sharma. Glow on, Golden Couple...
Opinion: Akhilesh Yadav's Gained Some Oomph. But Can He Close?
Saba Naqvi | Monday January 17, 2022The big takeaway is that there appears to be much splintering within the voter blocs that were essential to the BJP's caste rainbow in the last state election.
Opinion: The Acquittal Of Kerala Bishop Is Best Example Of A Bad Judgement
Brinda Karat | Monday January 17, 2022This is equally a fight against insensitive and patriarchal judicial blinkers that dehumanise a victim of rape and expect her to abide by a preconceived code of conduct as a "sterling witness".
Opinion: Virat Kohli Played To Win - With Him, There Were No Lulls
Keshava Guha | Monday January 17, 2022Fifty years later, it is Pataudi, not his statistically-superior successor, Ajit Wadekar, who is remembered. If Test cricket lives another fifty years, it is not going to forget the captaincy of Virat Kohli.
