India can focus on developing London-like broad pavements and a smooth public transport system. (Photo: Getty Images)

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Heart-friendly town-planning

An electoral bond (photo: National Herald archives)

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Herald View: Electoral bonds and the voters' right to know

"Kanpur was a genuinely 'smart city' long before some mole in the PMO came up with the moniker" (photo: Wikipedia)

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Who needs a a smart city when you have Kanpur?

Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra (photo: Getty Images)

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Reaching into a man's world, to put them in their place

Israel's one-sided aerial bombing of Gaza for the past three weeks called for both empathy and urgency to stop the carnage (photo: Getty Images)

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India, the abstainer: Making sense of India’s abstention in the UN since 2014

PM Narendra Modi with IAS probationers of 2015 batch (Image for representational purpose only)

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Herald View: In praise of the lord

PM Narendra Modi with Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu (photo: National Herald archives)

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World leaders and war criminals

Most prosperous countries with a very large services sector also tend to have a high female labour force participation rate (photo: Getty Images)

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Why Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize-winning work is relevant for India

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar (centre), deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav and others at an all-party meeting on the caste survey data, Patna, 3 Oct. 2023. (Photo: Getty Images)

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Bihar shows the way to Mandal 2.0

Supreme Court of India (photo: IANS)

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Why is the Supreme Court such a slow coach?

Incinerators for humans at the former Buchenwald concentration camp, now a memorial to the thousands of Jews killed there (photo: Getty Images)

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Lest the Israelis and Jews forget

A man cries as his home is bombed during Israeli air raids on Gaza, 16 Oct. (photo: Getty Images)

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Herald View: How does one keep hope alive?

LGBTQIA+ people protest the Supreme Court verdict in Delhi (photo: Vipin/ National Herald)

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Same-sex marriage: Give us equality, not ‘empathy’