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Erasing Gandhi twice; How scrapping MGNREGS betrays his legacy

Erasing Gandhi twice; How scrapping MGNREGS betrays his legacy

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948. The RSS vehemently denied that its ideology and propaganda motivated the assassin. The RSS...

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P Chidambaram

IFFK 2025 row: How Kerala pushed back against Centre’s ban on 19 films

IFFK 2025 row: How Kerala pushed back against Centre’s ban on 19 films

“Censorship, legal and extra-legal, is a serious inroad on freedom of expression. Censorship is highly subjective and essentially mindless. The...

18.12.2025 10

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Shoma A Chatterji

Bronze medal finish for junior hockey, yet inspiring

Bronze medal finish for junior hockey, yet inspiring

The recent show of the Indians in the men’s FIH Junior world hockey world cup with a bronze medal to show after a gap of nine years, is enough...

17.12.2025 2

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Sr Suryanarayan

Beyond Cynicism: Kerala 2.0 - A blueprint for bold reform

Beyond Cynicism: Kerala 2.0 - A blueprint for bold reform

The new book, 'Beyond Cynicism: Kerala 2.0', is not just another policy compendium or bureaucratic memoir. It is a bold, clear-eyed and deeply...

16.12.2025 20

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Shashi Tharoor

Unny: Friend, farmer and saviour

Unny: Friend, farmer and saviour

It is not often that someone from our childhood reenters our lives after half a century and leaves an imprint deeper than ever. Potteth Narayanan...

15.12.2025 2

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M G Radhakrishnan

Chidambaram’s Take: When History is bent and Future ignored

Chidambaram’s Take: When History is bent and Future ignored

History is like the commons. Any one can enter the commons and write or re-write history — until the myths are blown by subsequent research and...

15.12.2025 2

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P Chidambaram