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The weak bombs that Bhagat Singh (pictured in 1927) hurled into the chamber of Delhi's Central Assembly were not meant to harm anyone (photo: Wikipedia)

When does 'peaceful protest' become 'act of terrorism'?

Representative image of a hospital (Photo: NH Library)

PMJAY: A view from the frontlines

A house set on fire by rioters in Manipur (Photo for representational purpose; courtesy: @ashoswai/Twitter)

Manipur is still burning, but who cares?

A wheelchair-bound person finds it almost impossible to move around on their own in Mumbai (and other Indian cities). Photo: Getty Images

Let us move away from perceptions of ‘specialness’

PM Narendra Modi flaunts a new Tejas fighter jet. The military grabs 9% of govt funds, while distrust amongst neighbours Pakistan and Bangladesh raises trade barriers and funnels funds out of the Subcontinent (photo: @narendramodi/Twitter)

Why are we still so poor? What's wrong with the South Asian economic model(s)?

There is an apparent correlation between Rahul Gandhi’s approval rating after his Bharat Jodo Yatra and the Congress' vote percentage in the states he walked through (photo: @onemevinod/X)

The road to Lok Sabha 2024: Why I.N.D.I.A is very much on course

First time voters at a polling station during the recent Madhya Pradesh assembly elections (photo: @ECISVEEP/X)

Is the first-time voter the X-factor in BJP's victories?

(From left): The trifecta of Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Yogi Adityanath and Vasundhara Raje ought to make the BJP top leadership uneasy

Opinion

Assembly polls: BJP's win signals the rising power of regional satraps

03 Dec 2023, 3:44 PM

Daily wage labourers in Delhi (photo: National Herald archives)

Opinion

How poor is India really?

03 Dec 2023, 2:00 PM

Representative image (Photo: Getty)

Opinion

Hurtling towards a police state

03 Dec 2023, 11:41 AM

BJP supporters hold demonstration in New Delhi to show solidarity with Israel, 15 October 2023. (Photo Getty Images)

Opinion

Thread that binds Hindutva and Zionism

02 Dec 2023, 10:30 PM

The morphed video of actor Rashmika Mandanna (Image courtesy: M9)

Opinion

Herald View: Waking up to the menace of deepfake

02 Dec 2023, 6:55 PM

Rescue ops at the Silkyara tunnel

Opinion

Herald View: Tunnel vision is taking its toll

27 Nov 2023, 4:15 PM

An enumerator collects data from Jawaharlal Nehru, then prime minister of India, during the census exercise, 1961

Opinion

No census, ergo no delimitation: how long can India wait?

26 Nov 2023, 3:50 PM

Workers trapped in the collapsed Silkyara tunnel seen with the help of an endoscopic camera (photo: National Herald archives)

Opinion

A Himalayan fiasco: Silkyara tunnel crisis was long in the making

26 Nov 2023, 12:40 PM

Many a slip between the cup and the lip!

Opinion

Not just cricket: The political game within the game

25 Nov 2023, 10:00 PM

It's not about the size of the dog in the fight but about the size of the fight in the dog: Mark Twain

Opinion

The size of the fight in the dog

25 Nov 2023, 3:53 PM

Jobless graduates fry pakodas on PM Modi's birthday on 17 September, which the IYC observes as 'national unemployment day' (photo: Vipin/ National Herald)

Opinion

India’s growing unemployment crisis

21 Nov 2023, 8:13 AM

Representative image of an Aadhaar biometric identity card, issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), from 28 January 2017, Mumbai (photo: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Opinion

The ‘new’ Modi operandi—or, whose Aadhaar is it anyway?

19 Nov 2023, 12:53 PM

Standing in the Supreme Court, India's attorney-general made the statement that the voter has no right to know how his or her vote has been recorded or counted (photo: Getty Images)

Opinion

Stooping to conquer or flattering to deceive?

19 Nov 2023, 8:33 AM

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