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Assault on academic freedom

Earlier this month, Prof. Apoorvanand of Delhi University faced an unusual demand: to submit for prior scrutiny the full text of a speech he was to...

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Ashok Swain

Trump’s masterstroke

The United States says it is being looted by the world in trade and wants compensation. This looting has happened through the US not being able to...

sunday 10

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Saiyed Zegham Murtaza

Why suspending the Indus Waters Treaty is a bad idea

In a dramatic escalation following the Pahalgam terror attack, in which 26 civilians were killed, the Indian government has decided to suspend the...

sunday 4

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Ashok Swain

Unspoken fear and uneasy calm in Sambhal

The roads leading to the Shahi Jama Masjid here are heavily guarded. Police checkpoints and barricades encircle the mosque, a stark reminder of the...

sunday 3

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Saiyed Zegham Murtaza

Now link your Aadhaar with your dog

The jury may still be out on whether India is an elected dictatorship, but it should be unanimous on the fact that it is a...

sunday 2

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Saiyed Zegham Murtaza

It’s an all-out war on the judiciary

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s recent attack on the Supreme Court and Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna is no mere outburst — it is part of a...

sunday 4

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Sharad Gupta

The project to rein in the judiciary

The recent denunciation of the Supreme Court and the judiciary by BJP member of Parliament Nishikant Dubey is, in fact, an attack on the...

sunday 10

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Sanjay Hegde

Nishikant Dubey is no freelance vigilante

When a parliamentarian wages war on the judiciary, it is sometimes more than bluster—it’s a signal. Nishikant Dubey’s recent sound byte to a news...

sunday 1

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Sanjay Hegde

The Pope who showed America the mirror

Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, passed away on Easter Monday, aged 88. He was the Pope of the poor, the Pontiff who spoke up...

26.04.2025 30

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Jagdish Rattanani

In Kashmir’s darkest hour, light came from its people

Never in living memory has Kashmir reacted to an act of terror as it did on 23 April, wrote longtime observer and Srinagar-based journalist...

26.04.2025 7

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Herjinder

The Indus Water Treaty: What India can and cannot do by ‘suspending’ it

In the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack on tourists, India announced on 23 April that it would hold the Indus Water Treaty ‘in abeyance’. Its...

25.04.2025 2

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Aj Prabal

Four steps to foil the terrorists’ design

Who wouldn’t be gutted by the horrific images from Pahalgam, where terrorists butchered innocent civilians? Who wouldn’t feel rage at such...

24.04.2025 10

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Yogendra Yadav