India
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RECLAIMING BHARAT MATA
Bharat Mata—Mother India—is the subject of (un)intellectual engagement these days. There are people who refuse to chant “Bharat Mata ki Jai” and there are those...
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WAIT FOR SKULL CAP OUTCOME
In the middle of next month when mercury will bob between 40 to 44 degrees, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Commander of Bhartiya Janata...
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ART OF LOBBYING FOR NOBEL PRIZE
In Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu, there is a small village called Papanasam, which literally means the “destruction of sins” in Tamil. Sri Sri Ravishankar...
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DIVERSE INDIA HAS ZERO OPTIONS
The parliamentary system of democracy, as envisaged by our founding fathers, remains India’s best option today. Arun Jaitley took the Rajya Sabha route to become...
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RAHUL GANDHI AND DALIT MIND SPACE
Dalits now vote for issues like development and aspiration. This is the reason that Modi could successfully trap them. Rahul Gandhi’s recent efforts to reconnect...
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REFRESH YOUR MEMORY, SMRITI IRANI
I congratulate Smriti Irani for the audacity and recklessness she showed in Parliament last week during a discussion on the recent incidents in Jawaharlal Nehru...
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RIGHT-WING ELEMENTS LOSING THE PLOT
Fallout from the recent JNU row has been an embarrassment to the Modi government. The Modi brigade’s efforts to impose its saffron ideology in the...
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STRONG HEADWIND FOR MODI TO CROSS
To form a Grand Alliance of regional parties and lead it from the front looks easy for the Congress. The results of the municipal council...
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BLINKERING NATIONAL VISION
Wild stories surrounding the fate of freedom movement icon Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose have found no trace in the recently declassified papers. To the disappointment...
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RAHUL GANDHI DOING A CTRL + ALT + DELETE
‘I am absolutely against the concept of Dynasty. But you are not going to wish away Dynasty in a closed system; you have to open...