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Anand K. SahayThe Wire |
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 be...
As derail democracy projects go, the Watergate scandal of the early ‘70s, which forced the resignation of President Richard Nixon, is exceeded in...
The mystique of religion flounders here; spirituality hurries to take a back seat in New India’s new Ayodhya. Today the most striking visual of that...
On sober reflection, after ditching the Rashtriya Janata Dal-led Mahagathbandhan and switching back to the BJP’s side just before the upcoming...
A state-sponsored temple to Lord Ram may have been inaugurated in Ayodhya on January 22, but the show was, really speaking, dedicated to Prime...
We are in a time of momentous transition. Recent events suggest that as a nation we could be headed for life-altering turbulence. Separately, each...
The questions are important: After the Congress party was blown away in the recent assembly elections to the three north Indian states of Madhya...
In the middle of the short-duration pause in Israel’s one-sided pounding of the tiny Gaza strip, aimed at securing the return of Israeli nationals...
What cannot be doubted is the ideological indispensability of the Congress party, especially its current dominant strain represented by Rahul Gandhi,...
There is an unprecedented quality about the October 7 attack by the Gaza-based Palestinian group Hamas inside Israel which has the potential to alter...
Satan, like God, works round the clock. Thus it is that, of all days, on October 2, Gandhi Jayanti, a day that is meant to celebrate the ideals of...
The filthy words spoken with vehemence ― and evident premeditation, considering the ease with which they flowed over a small interval in a pause,...
Was it air – or water? The recent G20 summit held in New Delhi can be said to be “maya” which, in the later Vedic texts, is said to connote a...
There will be bushels of embarrassment for India when Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets his G20 guests later this week. Striking among them is the...