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Remembering Stan Swamy — and confronting India’s migrant crisis

Remembering Stan Swamy — and confronting India’s migrant crisis

On the evening of 13 September 2025, as twilight painted Mumbai’s skyline over Nariman Point, the Y.B. Chavan Centre filled with activists,...

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Hasnain Naqvi

A sovereign right to privacy — or secrecy?

A sovereign right to privacy — or secrecy?

We live in strange times indeed, where the rules of logic are turned on their head every day with every new executive diktat or court ruling. The...

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Avay Shukla

Bihar’s battle to claim its right and exert its will

Bihar’s battle to claim its right and exert its will

The Modi government observes 25 June, the day Emergency was promulgated in 1975, as ‘Samvidhan Hatya Diwas’. The Modi and Yogi governments have a...

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Dipankar Bhattacharya

Nepal upheaval: Why India cannot afford to be a bystander

Nepal upheaval: Why India cannot afford to be a bystander

A fragile peace under Sushila Karki’s leadership Nepal has entered a new and fragile chapter in its tumultuous democratic journey. The appointment...

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Hasnain Naqvi

The resounding success of Remake India 2025

The resounding success of Remake India 2025

An American scholar has written a book in which he tries to explain China’s recent rise. Dan Wang’s thesis is that China is a society of...

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Avay Shukla

Will the ECI still defy the Supreme Court on Aadhaar?

Will the ECI still defy the Supreme Court on Aadhaar?

The snake isn’t dead yet, but it has been defanged. The Supreme Court’s ruling of 8 September may not have decisively stopped the ‘votebandi’...

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Yogendra Yadav

E20: The silent experiment at your petrol pump

E20: The silent experiment at your petrol pump

Most automobile owners were startled by the news that the petrol they have been buying since April 2025 was blended with 20 per cent ethanol (E20)...

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Ashok Swain

Words just fail!

Words just fail!

For nearly two years, the world has watched Gaza descend into an abyss of human suffering so extreme that it has stripped bare the pretence of...

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Ashok Swain

Remembering Sitaram Yechury: Gentleman communist, humanist at heart

Remembering Sitaram Yechury: Gentleman communist, humanist at heart

On 12 September 2024, India lost Sitaram Yechury, one of the most urbane and articulate faces of the Left movement. For half-a-century, he remained...

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Hasnain Naqvi

Charlie Kirk’s death exposes rot of right-wing extremism

Charlie Kirk’s death exposes rot of right-wing extremism

In a macabre twist of fate, Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old poster child for American conservatism’s most toxic strains, was gunned down on Tuesday...

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Hasnain Naqvi

What will Prime Minister Modi do in Manipur?

What will Prime Minister Modi do in Manipur?

Manipur has been burning for 29 months, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not thought of visiting the state or even making any political...

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Nandita Haksar