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Opinion | Hugs Aside, This Is How Much India And Russia Really Mean To Each Other

Nishtha Gautam | Friday July 12, 2024

How much do Russia and India matter to each other today? This question can be answered only after stripping it of all the romanticism defining the India-Russia relationship.

Opinion | Hathras And The Making Of Superhero 'Babas'

Nishtha Gautam | Monday July 08, 2024

Unfortunately, the very hope and goodness of Indian spiritual traditions has been long exploited by charlatans or the babas and matas pretending to be superheroes.

Opinion | Cricket, Power, And India's T20 Glory In Barbados

Nishtha Gautam | Monday July 01, 2024

The history of cricket in India must undertake what Galeano says in the context of football: "a sad voyage from beauty to duty". India has a duty to - and only India can - protect cricket's beauty.

Opinion | Delhi Heat Crisis Is Behind Us. It's Time To Forget About It, Again

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday June 26, 2024

Delhi has a habit of slinking into complacency when 'terrible' becomes just a notch better and gets categorised as 'bad'.

Opinion | Yoga: Teachers, Tough Love, And The Twinning Of Mind And Body

Nishtha Gautam | Friday June 21, 2024

What is a modern yogi or yogini ought to look for before even embarking on this journey? As a regular practitioner now, all I can say is the possibility of annihilation of ego is a good goal to begin with.

Opinion | ABCD Of Coalition Government: Where Do We Go From Here?

Nishtha Gautam | Thursday June 13, 2024

First things first: coalition governments are the norm not an anomaly for India. The history dates back to the pre-independence years.

Opinion | Arrogance, EVMs And Uttar Pradesh: Key Lessons From Election 2024

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday June 05, 2024

This election has been a moment of reckoning for everyone who wore arrogance as a second skin. It won't be hyperbolic to say that the humble, vulnerable, taken-for-granted voter had the last word, delivering a coup de grace.

Opinion | Voting, Exit Polls And Aftermath: Savour Democracy In All Its Forms

Nishtha Gautam | Monday June 03, 2024

This general election will go down in India's political history as a single-agenda election. Do you want Narendra Modi to continue being the Prime Minister of India?

Opinion | Mujra Is A Competitive Site - Much Like Elections

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday May 29, 2024

Mujra is essentially Indian. Mujra has no religion. Mujra is subversive. Mujrai is also like election time, a competitive site. The only difference: one voter is wooed by various vote-seekers.

Opinion | Iran President Raisi, A Parable For The Times

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday May 22, 2024

The late Iran President Ebrahim Raisi can be seen as an Everyman in the global political arena, representing all politicians seeking legitimacy and power through overt religiosity.

Opinion | Met Gala: Fashion, Faiz, And The Fragility of Bodies

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday May 08, 2024

Each year, many of us find questions to ask about the relevance of the Met Gala, fashion's biggest evening out. The dissing voices are louder this year given the spate of arrests across university campuses not very far from the event venue.

Opinion | Labour Day Special Toast to Wine and Work - Real And Pretentious

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday May 01, 2024

In many countries, May Day is celebrated by raising a wine glass to toast the fruit of human labour that makes the world go round. It is ironic, therefore, to learn that, globally, almost half of the wine sector is facing a labour shortage.

Opinion | Nationalism And Elections: BJP Understands, Opposition Still Doesn't

Nishtha Gautam | Saturday April 20, 2024

When the BJP ratcheted its nationalism game up, the Opposition left the field on its ideological high horse. That's exactly what the BJP wanted - to be the only option.

Opinion | This Election Season, Even Shakespeare's Fool Wants You To Think

Nishtha Gautam | Thursday April 18, 2024

More than four centuries after his death, William Shakespeare's craft of making the audience hold a mirror to their selves is coming in handy when reflection, too, is merely performative.

Opinion: Men Need To Stop Raping Women. That's It

Nishtha Gautam | Tuesday March 05, 2024

If actions and words are directed more towards telling the victim how they could have avoided the accident or how they should be responding to it than addressing the cause, its a sign of a dysfunctional society.

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