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Accept Reject Update Consent Tue, Feb 09, 2021 | UPDATED 11:57 AM IST OPINION Opinion Times View TOI Edit ET Edit Readers’ Blog Times Evoke City Mumbai Chennai Bangalore Delhi Hyderabad India World Entertainment Sports Spirituality Business Economy Markets Companies Finance Wealth Environment Lifestyle Q&A Foreign Media Tech Science Reviews {{name}}Follow us on FEATURED Times View Readers’ Blog Times Evoke City India World Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Environment Spirituality Q&A Business News Blogs Home FROM TOI PRINT EDITION Clean up Indian Railways: It must match its climate credentials with sound pollution and waste management February 9, 2021, 2:25 AM IST Chandra Bhushan in TOI Edit Page FROM TOI PRINT EDITION Garhwal tragedy: The fragile but vital ecology of the Himalayas is demanding it be respected February 9, 2021, 2:20 AM IST TOI Edit in TOI Editorials FROM TOI PRINT EDITION Get it right: Bank privatisation must make a good start. Don’t go Air India way February 9, 2021, 2:15 AM IST TOI Edit in TOI Editorials FROM TOI PRINT EDITION On the farm bills: Farmers forming cooperatives will be able to negotiate better prices on their produce February 9, 2021, 2:10 AM IST Arindam Banik in TOI Edit Page FROM TOI PRINT EDITION For consistency’s sake: Should you, not having written a book, have no right to criticise the ones I write? February 9, 2021, 2:05 AM IST Arnab Ray in Just Another Blog FROM TOI PRINT EDITION Human beings have nothing to crow about February 9, 2021, 2:00 AM IST Speaking Tree in TOI Edit Page India Of Identity & A Protest February 8, 2021, 2:01 PM IST Nandita Sengupta in Holy Cow TOI PRINT EDITION TOI EDITS Tamil Nadu’s blunder: AIADMK backs agri reforms at Centre, its state farm loan waiver undercuts them February 8, 2021, 2:20 AM IST TOI Edit in TOI Editorials Problem of plenty: Stream of Trinamool leaders joining it worries BJP in Bengal, and slows February 8, 2021, 2:15 AM IST TOI Edit in TOI Editorials Indore to Delhi: Munawar Faruqui’s late bail highlights systemic rot February 6, 2021, 2:20 AM IST TOI Edit in TOI Editorials More From TOI Edits TOI EDITORIALS Ironclad genomics case: Science needs equity, diversity and inclusion. End systemic discrimination February 8, 2021, 2:25 AM IST Partha P Majumder in TOI Edit Page ‘Gavi’s goal is to deliver 2 billion doses in 2021 … India would receive upwards of 200 million doses through COVAX AMC’ February 8, 2021, 2:10 AM IST TOI Q&A in The Interviews Blog Rihanna mukt Bharat: An entirely imaginary conversation between celebrities, after the singer’s tweet on farm protests February 8, 2021, 2:05 AM IST Sagarika Ghose in Bloody Mary God as an unreasonable proposition February 8, 2021, 2:00 AM IST Speaking Tree in TOI Edit Page More From TOI EDITORIALS TOP VOICES Arun Ram If Indian politics is a theatre, Tamil Nadu is a multiplex. Where cigarette flicks and dark glasses are the perennial symbols of style and substance, sycophancy does a tandava over psephology. And with the players ensconced in the ministerial thrones in Delhi, it is no longer just a southern delight. Arun Ram, Resident Editor, The Times of India, Tamil Nadu, who alternates between the balcony and the front row, says it incites as much as it excites. During the intervals, he chews on a bit of science and such saner things. Swagato Ganguly After drinking at various disciplinary streams, which included an engineering degree from IIT Kanpur and a doctorate in literature from the University of Pennsylvania, Swagato Ganguly now edits The Times of Ideas”, the editorial page of the Times of India. He’s fascinated by ideas in all shapes, sizes and guises, whether well-cooked or medium-rare – but especially as they motivate everyday living. He’s also interested in the Indian middle class, in its uniqueness as well as globality. In his view Indian politics is torn between ideological extremes, and would do well to discover a liberal middle. His biggest weaknesses are movies, art, and brewing and sipping a good cup of coffee, for which he gets little time. Rahul Shivshankar The writer is Editor-in-Chief, Times Now Bachi Karkaria Bachi Karkaria’s Erratica and its cheeky sign-off character, Alec Smart, have had a growing league of followers since 1994 when the column began in the Metropolis on Saturday. It now appears on the Edit Page of the Times of India, every Thursday. It takes a sly dig at whatever has inflated political/celebrity egos, and got public knickers in a twist that week. It makes you chuckle, think and marvel at the elasticity of the English language. Bachi Karkaria also writes Giving Gyan in the Mumbai Mirror, and its fellow publications in other cities. It is a shooting-from-the-lip advice column to the lovelorn and otherwise torn, telling them to stop cribbing and start livingall in her her branded pithy, witty style. Interested in blogging for timesofindia.com? We will be happy to have you on board as a blogger, if you have the knack for writing. WRITE FOR TOI BLOGS Interested in blogging for timesofindia.com? 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Shuvendu Sen in Heart Beats More From Entertainment More OPINION February 9, 2021, 10:51 AM ISTTarun Chugh Budget 2021: A step towards Aatmanirbhar Bharat February 9, 2021, 10:51 AM IST The Union Budget by the Narendra Modi government 2021 brings a paradigm shift for India’s economy. The government, through various measures has ensured that Budget 2021-22 helps in improving the economy of India and also… February 9, 2021, 10:51 AM IST Voices , Finance , India , TOI February 9, 2021, 10:40 AM ISTSamir Shukla Tweeting porn stars and pop divas: Law must wake up to save the sacrosanct concept of ‘opinion’ February 9, 2021, 10:40 AM IST Human law-making is a difficult task, and it has gone even more difficult with the arrival of the concept of democracy that...