The Readers’ Editor writes: Media’s health coverage is too often episodic – Gorakhpur is an example

What is needed is persistent reporting and analysis of India’s failing public health system.

C Rammanohar Reddy

· 8 hours ago

By sneering at Hamid Ansari’s diplomatic stint in West Asia, Modi undermined India’s foreign policy

The country has employed Muslim diplomats to further its interests in the Islamic world since long before Independence.

Danish Khan

· 9 hours ago

The TM Krishna column: Response to Gorakhpur deaths shows we’re losing the last bits of our humanity

Does our allegiance to a party or ideology make us so synthetic that all we care about is laying or shifting blame?

TM Krishna

· 19 hours ago

NCP’s Sharad Pawar is riding two horses. A fall is inevitable

Is the Nationalist Congress Party with the BJP or the Opposition? No one seems to know.

Sujata Anandan

· 20 hours ago

Readers’ comments: If war breaks out with China, India must not lose the chance to make up for 1962

A selection of readers’ opinions.

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· Yesterday · 10:30 pm

Question for the BJP’s Ram Madhav: How Indian are his party’s ideas of nationalism and development?

In a recent op-ed, the BJP spokesperson argued that for the first time after independence, the dominant idea of India was rooted in India’s genius.

Shiv Visvanathan

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

What is common between Amit Shah’s BJP and the Australian cricket team in its heyday?

Hint: It has something to do with winning.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Yesterday · 08:00 am

Why shifting an interrogation centre out of Manipur’s Kangla Fort is mere symbolism

India has still not taken a firm position against torture, long associated with such facilities.

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Yesterday · 07:30 am

Article 35A row: BJP has shifted focus from azadi to special status in Kashmir. But for how long?

The BJP stands to force a political realignment in Kashmir if it pushes the issue too far, which could prove counterproductive.

Shujaat Bukhari

· Yesterday · 06:30 am

‘We want to know everything about you’: The government handout that you won’t read on Aadhaar

A satirical take on how the government can clear the air on the unique identity project.

Overrated Outcast

· Aug 19, 2017 · 06:30 pm

From Charlottesville to India, majoritarian identity politics can only be countered by universalism

The Right has successfully co-opted the Leftist discourse of oppression and marginalisation to create fear and anxiety that the majority is losing ground

Rohit Chopra

· Aug 19, 2017 · 08:00 am

Readers’ comments: ‘It’s a thoughtful suggestion to reserve a day to mark Partition of India’

A selection of readers’ opinions.

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· Aug 18, 2017 · 10:30 pm