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Change his name if BJP wins

THERE is a perceptible voter fatigue against divisive planks. That’s encouraging news coming in for Indian democracy, which braces for a seven-stage...

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The professor’s delinquent students

THE zero from the large ‘G20’ image created with a mesh of wires has vanished. It was placed ambitiously over a tall footbridge near the venue...

09.04.2024 60

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Is there now a winning team?

FOR India’s opposition, the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. It’s now known...

02.04.2024 100

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Something else about March 23

MARCH 23 evokes three apparently distinct events in different time zones, which are in a curious way linked. The day marks Pakistan’s national day....

26.03.2024 90

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Arrests of Kejriwal and Co galvanise frayed Indian opposition

THE Indian National Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have been political rivals, but they have also emerged as the most outspoken critics in a...

23.03.2024 30

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Is India’s judiciary up for the fight?

OBSERVERS around the world were not necessarily being malicious — with the exception of Winston Churchill — in thinking that India might not last...

19.03.2024 70

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Flutter of the butterfly’s wings

ABOUT dialectics, the rulebook says, any two phenomena in the big world are related in a range of ways. “The flapping of the wings of a butterfly...

12.03.2024 60

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Why not directly elect a tycoon?

STAND-UP comedian Kunal Kamra has made a stimulating point about the growing venality of Indian politics, chiefly the way it has evolved over the last...

05.03.2024 90

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Can Modi score without electronic voting machines?

THE question would seem odd, given the chorus of drumbeats from the media, mostly Indian but also some foreign, proclaiming victory for the Indian...

27.02.2024 40

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Can Modi score without EVMs?

THE question would seem odd, given the chorus of drumbeats from the media, mostly Indian but also some foreign, proclaiming victory for the Indian...

27.02.2024 50

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Of the elephant in the courtroom

JAILED rights activist Umar Khalid withdrew his bail application from the Indian supreme court last week, preferring instead to try his fortunes at...

20.02.2024 50

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Poll verdict slams cancel culture

PAKISTAN’S voters have reprimanded anti-democratic power centres for seeking to ‘cancel’ political opponents. Voters ensured that Imran Khan’s...

13.02.2024 50

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Looking for signs of a Modi wave

THE moments come to mind when tutored political perceptions got laid low by the electoral vagaries of India. Indira Gandhi didn’t foresee the rout...

06.02.2024 80

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Ram won’t help but Nitish might

IN the end, the bluster of Ram temple could not lift Narendra Modi’s spirits and he had to turn to Nitish Kumar for help. The chief minister of...

30.01.2024 70

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An affront to Gandhi’s Ram

IT was a day to celebrate and cheer for the ruling party. It was a day to reflect and worry for India’s future. It was a day for the BJP to show...

23.01.2024 90

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The death of a Muslim musician

IN Satyajit Ray’s Jalsaghar (music room), the tired and lonely zamindar is played by the redoubtable Bengali actor, Chhabi Biswas. In a scene in the...

16.01.2024 70

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Desperate need for divine help?

THE legend of Hindu deity Ram straddles the geographical stretch from the Caspian Sea to Southeast Asia and beyond. There are myriad lores and...

09.01.2024 80

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An invitation to embrace reason

AS Prime Minister Modi leads the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya this month — built on the rubble of the Babri masjid upon the supreme...

02.01.2024 60

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A democracy without question

IT wasn’t surprising in the end that the presiding officers of the two Houses of India’s parliament, both handpicked by Prime Minister Modi,...

26.12.2023 200

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Don’t disturb the class, please

THE Indian supreme court’s judgement last week effectively endorsed Prime Minister Modi’s dismemberment of Kashmir in 2019 and his dismantling of...

19.12.2023 100

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Outwitting Modi’s psyops is key

IT could get worse before it gets better, goes the sagacious saying. It was in the nature of its very being that the INDIA alliance needed to cross...

12.12.2023 60

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Lessons for the global professor

THE global professor, the Vishwaguru, the sobriquet the Modi regime sees India as being entitled to, has been reminded, it seems, to imbibe lessons it...

05.12.2023 100

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A billion Indians minus the four

ELECTIONS are underway in five Indian states. The BJP lost all five last time, though it has created the impression that it won the round hands down....

28.11.2023 90

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Win hearts, forget the match

THERE’S a stark lesson for sports enthusiasts in the international cricket tournament that concluded in Gujarat on Sunday. Australia, which had no...

21.11.2023 50

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As cursing won’t help, try reason

CURSING the enemy is a heritage of many belief systems, designed as a hex in some and simply venting the spleen in others. In countless legends, men...

14.11.2023 70

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A fitting metaphor for Gaza

MADELEINE Albright once appeared for an interview for CBS 60 Minutes with Lesley Stahl. She was asked about the tragic effect of US sanctions on Iraqi...

07.11.2023 100

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They called Mandela a terrorist

WHEN the lights suddenly go off, we mostly lean on our primordial instincts to negotiate the darkened room with memory of passage through the maze of...

31.10.2023 80

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Cricketers who also win hearts

THE school-going cricket enthusiast in our Lucknow neighbourhood was the only one to own a decent radio in the 1960s. Rajiv Puri, Bappal to us, would...

24.10.2023 70

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A world sacrificed at Israel’s altar

IT isn’t concealed from the keen observer of politics that the Five Eyes Anglosphere created the modern state of Israel in 1948, which in turn...

17.10.2023 200

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Can we fight Zionism, not Jews?

ANYONE who is familiar with the history of Spain under Muslim rule before the 1492 Catholic pushback — and there’s an excellent body of work on...

10.10.2023 200

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Maldives and its neighbours

PRESIDENT Biden was assiduously cultivating leaders of Pacific Island nations the other day when in the distant Maldives archipelago in the Indian...

03.10.2023 70

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Fundamentalism by any other name

SEVERAL issues in the ongoing Canada-India spat over the murder of a pro-Khalistan Sikh man of Canadian citizenship require us to look beyond the fog...

26.09.2023 100

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The fear of India-Pakistan bonding

THERE’S no gainsaying that vested interests within and without do not want India and Pakistan to have friendly relations. In the early days,...

19.09.2023 100

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G20 with a hope and a prayer

THE inveterate Hindu in him spurred the British prime minister to take time off from the G20 summit to offer prayers at Delhi’s riverside Akshardham...

12.09.2023 200

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