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Stop the Culture War

As if a spluttering economy, the highest unemployment figures ever recorded and a massive farmers’ agitation besieging the nation’s capital last...

15.04.2024 20

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Choice for a New India: Hope or Fear

In my last column, I spoke about the clash between Mr Modi’s “New India” and the values of the “Old India” that people like me are accused...

10.04.2024 20

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New India versus Old India?

When our nation goes to polls over the next two months, Indians will be making a choice between two very different ideas of India. On one hand, there...

26.03.2024 30

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Rhetoric vs Reality

As elections loom, one thing has been clear for some time: our government is great at rhetoric, hopeless at the delivery of public services and the...

03.03.2024 10

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When Parliament Fails

With both Houses of Parliament adjourned sine die on Saturday, February 10, one more five-year term in the annals of India’s parliamentary democracy...

17.02.2024 5

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Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy

On January 30, we again mourned, as we have for seventy-six years, the assassination in 1948 of the Father of the Nation. At the present time, Mahatma...

02.02.2024 5

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Politicising Ram Temple

With just a week to go for the inauguration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya -- which is being built up by the ruling party and Hindutva activists as one...

16.01.2024 10

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Can we trust the Postal Services?

Everyone reading this uses – or at least has used – the postal service. Mailing letters, sending parcels, greeting the neighbourhood postman (and...

01.01.2024 5

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Don't reduce India into Hindutva Pakistan

As the Ram Mandir inauguration commands the headlines next month, one of the unnecessary debates that will arise before the forthcoming general...

17.12.2023 6

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Kissinger and Ukraine Conflict

Henry Kissinger, a man whose life was extraordinary by any definition, and whose career and policies were both 'pivotal' and 'polarising', as a BBC...

05.12.2023 8

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We, The People of India, Owe it to Nehru

For the first seventeen years of India's independence, the paradox-ridden Jawaharlal Nehru - a moody, idealist intellectual who felt an almost...

14.11.2023 20

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Don't Defend This War, Please

For the last 25 days, the world has been witnessing one of the worst human rights tragedies in recent times. Thousands of people, including a large...

04.11.2023 9

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Reimagining the Public Institutions

Soon after he was elected Prime Minister in 2014, Narendra Modi made a speech about the need to make it easier to do business in India. He deplored...

15.10.2023 4

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Why Does Gandhi Matter Today?

Today marks the 154th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth, and our media will be filled with encomia for one of India’s greatest sons, the man...

08.10.2023 20

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Charms and Loves of Cricket that is Indian

India has just won the Asia Cup, in a stunningly one-sided final. Now the Australians are arriving on our shores and the World Cups. Cricket fever has...

23.09.2023 10

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