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To all the anguished guys in the world, with all my sympathies..

Couples with large age gaps, especially where the man is younger, face an intense kind of opposition. With parents especially, it helps to frame arguments with logic, not emotion.

With a constrained mandate, he will face strong domestic and external challenges

“We have arrived,” proclaimed a string of Indian Americans in news profiles of the community’s sudden shot into prominence politically

The cadres of bureaucrats whose sole business it was to manage this obscure corner of the regulatory landscape will have to be disbanded and put to better use elsewhere.

The position that traditional Indian sweets once held in our hearts had been usurped by western confectionaries such as chocolates, cakes and cookies.

GUEST COLUMN Here is something the Government of India is not telling people. It is committed to the WTO to remove all farm subsidies, including MSP. But a direct, frontal attack on the MSP is a political impossibility.

Youngest though among his peers from the socialist school, Kumar bore in comparison the maturity of an elder. Erudition was his strength, the economy with words a salience that saw him spotless in the dust and grime of politics. Curt maybe he was at times — but never crass.

By taking this bold step, the government has shown that it means business. Now the public must support the decision unreservedly.

Caught in the crossfire between the states and the Centre, the police needs to assert itself to remain true to its commitment to the law.

It threw up new issues, new social equations and new political leaders in the state

An echo chamber bias ignored Donald Trump’s appeal in a divided states of America

The issues are centred on poverty and suffering, of the need for local opportunities, and of the failures of the state to stand by its poor in their hour of need

How it manages the outcome will shape US domestic politics, global standing and strategies

The pandemic provides an opportunity for India to take the lead in promoting regional tourism, an important metric of soft power