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Blessing the right to love: Pope Francis’s attempts to bring the Church in...

I don’t discuss religion or wear it on my sleeve. It’s not part of my usual social interaction or professional and friendship choices. I’ve been married twice, both times to Hindus. Having said that,...

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Don’t play fairy godmother: Trinamool doesn’t want government meddling in...

There’s a delightful phrase of Persian origin called ‘noora kushti’. It denotes a fixed fight — two people pretending to wrestle and fool spectators. The so-called tussle between the BJP-led government...

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Be fair to the sisters: New adoption guidelines are being slyly used to beat...

This narrative has developed in a strange way. New guidelines for adoption have been issued by the ministry of women and child development. But suddenly, thanks primarily to some insensitive and...

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Do not disrupt Parliament: Trinamool is against agitating from the word go...

Parliament’s winter session begins this Thursday. Following the crushing defeat suffered by BJP in Bihar assembly elections, it has been predicted that the winter session will go the way of the monsoon...

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Taking on big telecom: Here’s how the net neutrality fight was won, but the...

A few days ago, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) formally rejected Facebook’s ‘Free Basics’ scheme. But if anybody believes that the battle is over and the issue is settled, she is...

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Like Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa – soon to be Saint Teresa – was deeply...

Of the hundreds of Catholic orders across the world, only one has an office in the Vatican itself: the Missionaries of Charity, founded by Mother Teresa in Kolkata. Of the thousands of saints...

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What finance minister Arun Jaitley didn’t tell you in his budget speech about...

Calls for the incorporation of the Railway Budget into the General Budget have been made over the years. However, this demotion from a full-fledged speech to a few paragraphs in the finance minister’s...

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Just some clever lines? India faces a scary jobs crisis, reality is belied by...

In 2014, BJP came to power promising 10 million new jobs a year. In 2019, it will be tested against this promise and the degree to which it has fulfilled it. With the median age...

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Fight for democracy: Opposition must discover innovative ways of speaking, in...

Less than a year into the BJP government’s second term, even veteran opposition MPs are learning new lessons about Parliament. A bigger majority has only made the governing party more arrogant and the...

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