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A decade is but a human construct. It was conceived primarily to measure a period of time rather than define a span of human existence. As the English author Rose Macaulay observed, "Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, real

Taking place in the shadow of the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) and the uncertainty over the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the issue of citizenship, but naturally, became the foremost subject of debate at the third edition of the India Toda

Very rarely has it happened in a country's history that a decade starts as an opportunity and also ends as one. We blew the opportunity the Commonwealth Games (CWG) offered in 2010, and it is critical for the future of Indian Olympic sport that we ma

The law has done its duty. That's all I can say." That was how V.C. Sajjanar, 51, the police commissioner of Cyberabad, described the police killing of the four men accused of the rape and murder of 27-year-old Disha at Chatanpally in the suburbs of

Q. Where were you when you heard you were playing Roger Federer in the first round of the US Open? And what do you remember most from that match? I was getting a massage and I got a text from my fitness trainer Milos (Galecic). I couldn't quite belie

The World is Flat, read the hopeful title of a 2005 book by columnist Thomas L. Friedman. The metaphor, derived from a statement by Indian IT czar Nandan Nilekani, encapsulated the inter-connected globalised world of liberal democracies that promoted

The ruling BJP's sweep of the Karnataka assembly by-election has secured its government in the state, but Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa faces the onerous challenge of accommodating the new MLAs in his cabinet. Of the 15 seats where elections were h

On December 9, when the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), 2019, was introduced in the Lok Sabha, thousands of people from all walks of life thronged the streets at several places in Assam, in a spontaneous protest against what they believe is a desig

On November 15, 1948, India's Constituent Assembly rejected an amendment proposed by K.T. Shah (Bihar, General) to Article 1. It read that 'India shall be a Secular, Federal, Socialist Union of States'. He was told that the Constitution is but a mech

Zoom away from our planet on a spaceship, and it fades into insignificance, a grey-blue speck with 8 billion people fighting over insignificant things. But that pale blue dot near an average sun is building up quite a database. By 2020, the amount of

The economic philosophy that guided policymakers in the decade of the 2010s was the antithesis of the reasoning that influenced the previous decade. The Indian government's policy framework too swung from one extreme (free-market thinking) to the oth

In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg beat the likes of Julian Assange and Hamid Karzai to become Time magazine's Person of the Year. At the time, Facebook was six, and Zuckerberg, 26, both young enough to be cute. We asked Zuckerberg innocent questions then: Doe

Technology defined the 2010-2019 decade and promises to drive the next into uncharted waters. Artificial intelligence, quantum computing, machine learning and bionics graduated from science fiction to practical reality. Digital technologies ruled, an

Make no mistake about this. Republic 2.0 is coming. At any rate, a serious att­empt is being made to usher it in. The second decade of the 21st century could well go down in history as the beginn­ing of a conscious, deliberate and determined effort

These have been turbulent years for the Supreme Court. The rumblings in court erupted in a press conference when, on January 12, 2018, four of the seniormost judges charged that "of late...cases having far-reaching consequences for the nation and the

If Tinder came late to some homes, it didn't come to mine at all. My cousins and extended family found it supremely normal to ignore because we are still learning how to negotiate love-marriage discussions with our Dalit parents. Girls in my immediat