Not our man in London
There is nothing in Rishi Sunak’s elevation to celebrate for Indians “The takeaway from the hullabaloo over the elevation of…
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Censorship Is “Stupid” But It Stays, Thanks Information Highways
“There are contradictory views on what is “objectionable and hateful content”. In times of diminishing tolerance, anything “anti-establishment” quickly gets…
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Options before Ukraine
The war can either go towards negotiated peace or a nuclear conflict “Russia has lost support and sympathy across Europe.…
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Domestic terror poses challenges for democracies
The US, which claims to be the prime target of global terrorism and has 67 ‘foreign terrorist organizations’ covered under…
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Russia-Ukraine war unlikely to end soon
The rise in Russia’s industrial output in recent months has foxed western analysts. As long as the conflict continues, Russia…
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US skeptical of China resolving LAC row
Since PLA’s multiple intrusions in May 2020, India chose diplomacy to achieve restoration of status quo ante in eastern Ladakh.…
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Guilty without evidence
"Not every policy is well thought out. Many policies may be well intentioned but will fail. The PM’s demonetization decision,…
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TEACHERS SHOULD BE THE BEST MINDS IN THE COUNTRY
“For Dr. Radhakrishnan everything: psychology, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, education, politics, economics, science, and religion converges and culminates in spirit. He…
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A Unitary State: Modi & Shah Determined to Establish ‘One India’ under Tutelage of One Party
The inroads made by the paramilitary and the Home Ministry into Opposition states in this new adversarial avatar only consolidates…
Read MoreCan Indians Explain What They are Celebrating on the 75thAnniversary of India’s Independence?
The author is worried about the vast masses of India facing unemployment, poverty, starvation, and communal divisions that threaten to…
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Democracy and Hindutva
India needs grassroots, representative politics, not identity politics Even the Hindi heartland would dump Hindutva if a credible alternative offers…
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Black Sea deal to ease global food challenge
“There has been rise in food and fuel prices, as well as supply chain issues, as the mountains of grain…
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Fate of human rights in India
Dormant for too long, civil society must learn to protect its exemplars “India is moving from majoritarianism to authoritarianism. Its…
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The new ‘normal’ of political splits and shifts
‘The current phase is bizarre when compared to the past because dominant parties appear to be actively encouraging splits and…
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The meaning of a ‘dynasty-mukt Bharat’
The BJP’s clarion call for a dynasty-free Bharat reflects its desire for a meaningful opposition-free Bharat In the Bharatiya Janata…
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Divested of abortion right
US Supreme Court demonstrates feudal retrogression As I See It “The constriction of liberty has disastrous consequences for women who…
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Defense reforms put govt in a tight spot
“The Agnipath scheme — envisaged as a short-term contractual recruitment model for the Army, Navy and Air Force — is…
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PM needs nation’s sympathy
“To win him over, we must emphasize Modi’s personal importance in the country, and in the world, and how important…
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Handle the India-U.S. Relationship with Care
“Americans and Indians often see the same problem in very different ways. India, for example, does not see Russia’s attack…
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‘World order’ in the context of Ukraine war
What stands remote and far-reaching is that the West does appear to have sown seeds of a major European conflict…
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Quo Vadis, Mother Russia?
“During some of the coldest days of the Cold War, U.S. presidents like Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan…
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‘Numbers don’t lie’
The Buffalo killings are part of a pattern: Most extremist violence in the U.S. comes from the political right. “It’s…
Read MoreJudi Tyabji & Sandi Hawkins played pioneers
Canadian Politics More women of Indian descent preferred federal politics than provincial politics. But Judi Tyabji and Sandi Hawkins were…
Read MoreRevisiting Roe vs Wade
“The job of a judge is to interpret the law made by the legislature, and apply it to specific cases,…
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A voice in the wilderness
Pursuit of politics of hate & divisiveness can be disastrous for the country “I am genuinely worried (in fact, convinced)…
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Hindutva to the fore in BJP’s scheme of things
“The BJP has travelled a long way from the early 2000s, when Vajpayee had to be mindful of his allies’…
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The threat to Indian State
No overarching Hindu unity can be built on basis of Hindu-Muslim binary “There are over 200 million Muslims in our…
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Whipping up a frenzy
Governance has become irrelevant to win a popular mandate “The expanse of the violence, from the east to the west…
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Is Global ‘Democracy’ America’s Mission?
“America's founding mission was not democracy, nor any other ideology. It was what we declared it to be in the…
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Is Victory for Ukraine Worth Risking Nuclear War?
“The Ukrainian war, now a month old, has demonstrated the utility of nuclear weapons. Putin's credible threat to use them…
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