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India as bad as Trump on immigrants

India as bad as Trump on immigrants

The exaggerated numbers of illegal Bangladeshi nationals bandied about by our politicians have been weaponised against Indian Bengali Muslims. This...

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Delhi must save democracy

Delhi must save democracy

Delhiites will have to decide whether a party that has been accused of subverting the popular will through the appropriation of administrative...

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Horror stories of the MMS era

Horror stories of the MMS era

History will remember that on the former Prime Minister’s watch, the rights of activists and protesters were imperilled using methods that have been...

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Cry for Bangladeshi teachers

The hounding of intellectuals as mobocracy reigns supreme under the interim government of Muhammad Yunus serves as a stark warning for India on the...

06.01.2025 5

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Ambedkar’s pact with a Hindutvadi

The architect of the Constitution railing against Hindu Raj while also being conflicted about Dalits adopting Christianity or Islam as this would ‘...

31.12.2024 4

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Golwalkar’s shadow over ONOE

BJP’s One Nation, One Election proposal echoes the deep distrust the second RSS chief had of the federal system, which India’s regional parties do...

23.12.2024 10

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When judges shame themselves

Members of the judiciary face no consequences for egregious misconduct as they are neither exposed to moral pressure mounted by the public nor stand...

16.12.2024 20

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Why Hindus don’t tire of Hindutva

Since Muslims have been projected as those who cannot be truly Indian and, therefore, loyal to India, the majority community feels it is a national...

09.12.2024 5

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India’s mosques under siege: how history is being weaponised

None of the petitions pleading for surveying the mosques should have been entertained by the judiciary, for the Places of Worship Act, 1991,...

02.12.2024 10

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Ajaz Ashraf

Take cash, forget social change

Direct cash transfer has legitimised and mainstreamed the purchasing of votes, but by doing so, governments implicitly confess to their disinterest...

25.11.2024 10

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Sacco’s Palestine, Our Palestine

The enduring appeal of a graphic novel on the horrors of life under Israeli occupation among young Indians signifies their rejection of the Zionist...

18.11.2024 4

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How hate politics unites US and India

Both the Republican Party and BJP raise the bogey of the illegal immigrant to tap into voters’ tribalistic fears of being demographically...

11.11.2024 20

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BJP’s bogus theory of infiltration

To spawn fear among Adivasis, the party has been busy falsely projecting disputes involving Muslims as evidence of Bangladeshi presence, and...

04.11.2024 10

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1984, the year that changed India

Forty years after Punjab was gripped by militancy, the idea of Khalistan still haunts the State and the Hindu votebank the Congress cynically...

28.10.2024 6

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Dynastic battles of November polls

The Pawars, Thackerays and Sorens, whose parties have undergone the process of fission, will have to demonstrate they still enjoy the loyalty of...

21.10.2024 3

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Congress can’t give up on EVM battle now

The grand old party’s legitimacy will be threatened unless it apologises for eroding faith in the electronic voting system or goes to the public to...

14.10.2024 10

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How memory oppresses Kashmir

While it would seem to an outsider that normalcy has returned to the Valley, its silent denizens are tormented by recollections of repression and...

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Hindu-Muslim love in Gandhi’s time

Unions that dare to transcend community boundaries, a relatively more common phenomenon nowadays compared to a century ago, are at risk of being...

30.09.2024 20

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The killings of Chhattisgarh

Animosity between adivasis and security forces in the militarised Bastar district is escalating as the former are being gunned down in search...

23.09.2024 5

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Mohan Bhagwat’s barbs no cause for glee

Tensions between the BJP and RSS leaderships symbolise the latter’s attempts to establish supremacy over a democratically elected government, a...

16.09.2024 10

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Partition: Killer and the shadow

A thoughtless murder carried out during the bloodiest chapter in the subcontinent’s history refused to stay in the past, compelling the perpetrator...

20.08.2024 8

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Bangladesh’s lessons for BJP

The consequences of the State abandoning secularism both as a principle of policy and in practice can be witnessed in the violence being unleashed...

13.08.2024 3

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Bullet, ballot and silence of Jammu and Kashmir

Five years since the abrogation of Article 370, a manufactured normalcy prevails in the Valley while militancy menaces Jammu and Ladakh is gripped...

06.08.2024 10

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Kanwar Yatra as Hindutva’s tool

What used to be an expression of folk religiosity has morphed into a carnival under the auspices of the State, which seeks to reduce chances of a...

29.07.2024 8

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