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The Paradox of India's Secular Ideal: Bridging the Gap Between Belief and Reality

It was a pleasant surprise to know that the majority of the people of India still believe that their country is a country of people of all...

yesterday 10

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Apoorvanand

Election 2024 is for the Opposition to Win

As narratives are being floated with the obliging connivance of the captive media, each day is proving to be rather too long in current Indian...

yesterday 10

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Badri Raina

Food, Faith and Fascism in New India

Because it is Gujarat, the latest comment by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that flaunting and eating meat during the Hindu holy month of sawan...

yesterday 10

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Deepal Trivedi

Congress's Manifesto Signals Party's Welcome Return to its Ideological Moorings

Having lost two consecutive general elections in 2014 (leading the coalition United Progressive Alliance) and in 2019 (without any alliance), the...

yesterday 10

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Ajay K. Mehra

Here's Why Modi Knows India Eats Meat But Speaks of Vegetarianism

When Narendra Modi attacked Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav recently for violating the ‘strict norm’ of vegetarianism during the Ram...

yesterday 2

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Jawhar Sircar

What Does it Mean to Call Today's India a Democracy?

Narendra Modi’s electoral success in Gujarat between 2001 and 2014 and on the Indian scene since then stems from his novel blend of populism and...

previous day 20

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Christophe Jaffrelot

2024 Lok Sabha Elections Are a Fight to Win Back the Nation’s Soul

This election is the moment of final reckoning for our democracy. The choice is stark – between freedom and tyranny. Our situation couldn’t be...

previous day 50

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Mathew John

Congress Manifesto’s Commitment to Social Justice Will Put Other Parties on the Defensive

Two competing national parties, the Congress and the Bhartiya Janata Party have released their 2024 election manifestos. Congress has taken a...

previous day 4

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Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

What Parties' Election Manifestos Tell Us of the State of LGBTQIA+ Rights

Aristotle made speech the essence of politics and posterity concurred with him. Modern democratic thought – from deliberative democracy to...

previous day 10

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Faisal C.k. And Parth Raman

Sikkim Polls: Amid Communal Rhetoric by BJP, SKM to Face-Off SDF in a Direct Contest

Sikkim goes to poll for the 32 Assembly seats and the lone Lok Sabha seat on April 19. The major actors in the fray are the two regional parties:...

previous day 4

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E.k. Santha

‘We Are Storytellers…Stop Censoring Our Stories’

Trending on Twitter, flashing on news channels, faces in the spotlight, and DMs flooded. This is the unexpected fame surrounding the...

previous day 9

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Aayna

Why Modi Making a Virtue of Vegetarianism Worsens India's Malnourishment Problem

Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rather frivolous allegation against the opposition for “eating mutton during [the month of] sawan,” much...

monday 10

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Abantika Ghosh

How Genocide in Gaza Is Reshaping Psychic Life, Political Imaginations Far Beyond Palestine

“I live out by O’Hare. Every time a plane flies overhead at night, my hands shake. I’m looking for a place to hide. And then the sirens too –...

monday 20

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Eric Reinhart

Don't Love to Hate Hardik Pandya, Question Mumbai Indians (Mis)Management

Stakeholder #1 is Hardik ‘Controversy’ Pandya. Yes, that should be his name. The rock star captain of the Mumbai Indians is talented, flashy...

monday 10

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Rohit Khanna

When Did Inter-religious Weddings Become Communal Conspiracies In Kerala?

Mea Culpa. This reporter is a wrong person to write about The Kerala Story, a film by two non Malayalis, director Sudipto Sen and producer Vipul...

monday 30

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John Dayal

Family, Fortunes and the Problems With Parrots in Indian Politics

Electioneering is in full throttle. As the temperatures and decibel levels rise, so do informed and uninformed rumours and predictions despite a...

monday 9

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Mrinal Pande

What the BJP's Manifesto Doesn't Say – And the Congress's Does

The BJP has produced a splendid manifesto, if elections are all about beautiful photographs – sparkling, colourful, creative images of Prime...

monday 9

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Sanjay K. Jha

Backstory: When World's Focus Is on Indian Elections, Mainstream Media Keeps its Eyes Wide Shut

How can the Indian mainstream media claim to be trustees of the truth when it is gripped by an overwhelming fear of stating the facts? In the...

monday 10

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Pamela Philipose

Modi’s 'Newsweek' Interview: Asking the Follow-Up Questions That Weren't

In the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, almost the entire global media and pro-government organisations within the Indian industry are...

14.04.2024 20

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Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay

Congress Manifesto Suggests Party Return to Core Ideology by Shedding Soft Hindutva

A sharp shift in the political temper of the country, heading to the 18th Lok Sabha elections, can arguably, be attributed to the explosive...

14.04.2024 10

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Teesta Setalvad

Delhi Liquor 'Scam': Three Legal Reasons Why ED Case Against Arvind Kejriwal Is Weak

Last month, Arvind Kejriwal – the sitting chief minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi – was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate...

14.04.2024 10

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Kartik Kalra

How Some of India's Most Active Citizens Became Quiet, Docile Subjects

Ever since independence in 1947, India has been a gloriously messy democracy. In Sunil Khilnani’s analysis, our way of being democratic has been...

14.04.2024 50

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Kiran Kumbhar

Toxicity in Newsrooms: An Elephant that Media Houses Don't See

Donkey, monkey, stupid, idiot…the words still ring and sting many years after they were hurled routinely by a bellicose boss at a room full of...

14.04.2024 7

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Ruben Banerjee

Why We Must Teach Dissent

Under the guidelines of the National Education Policy, 2020 , several institutions now offer ‘multi-disciplinary’ courses which have been designed...

14.04.2024 7

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Sayantani Mukhopadhyay

India’s Political Landscape Shows BJP’s Counter-Revolution Game Is Afoot

From the soundings an observer may take just before the first polling for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on April 19, politically, the chips look to...

13.04.2024 20

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Anand K. Sahay

Sanatan Capitalism: How Economic Hardship and Hindutva Go Hand in Hand

When a sizeable majority of the nation swoons over violent calls of religious majoritarianism, literally offered through a Hindutva DJ, on the one...

13.04.2024 20

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Nitin Sinha

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