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FPJ Analysis: Waste Management

FPJ Analysis: Waste Management

This is worth taking note of because temple towns are legendary not only for the presiding deity and devotees who flock to them but also for the lack...

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FPJ Analysis: Conserve On One Hand, Destroy On The Other

FPJ Analysis: Conserve On One Hand, Destroy On The Other

Navi Mumbai was conceptualised and built as a satellite city to Mumbai in the 1960s-70s but there was little said or done to preserve its natural...

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FPJ Analysis: Bigotry Beneath The Surface

At a time when elections loom in Bihar and the Mumbai municipal corporation and pressing economic issues demand attention, such comments serve as...

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FPJ Analysis: Give Urdu Its Due

FPJ Analysis: Give Urdu Its Due

This pronouncement, rooted in constitutional and historical truth, should serve as a moment of reckoning for both policymakers and citizens alike.

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FPJ Analysis: Mehul Choksi Must Be Tried In India

FPJ Analysis: Mehul Choksi Must Be Tried In India

The ultimate goal is to have him extradited to India, where he must stand trial for the massive financial fraud he committed along with his nephew...

17.04.2025 9

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Telangana First Indian State To Implement SC Sub-Categorisation: A Welcome Step Towards Equity

Telangana First Indian State To Implement SC Sub-Categorisation: A Welcome Step Towards Equity

This decision follows the Supreme Court’s landmark verdict in August 2024, which permitted such classification, recognising the stark disparities...

17.04.2025 10

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2026: BJP Elated Over Southern Outreach

Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2026: BJP Elated Over Southern Outreach

In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, which the BJP fought on its own, its performance was disappointing, to say the least.

16.04.2025 10

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FPJ Analysis: Glitches In UPI Unacceptable, Raise Concerns Over Reliability

FPJ Analysis: Glitches In UPI Unacceptable, Raise Concerns Over Reliability

The system, which was launched in 2016, has become critical to millions of Indians, who effortlessly migrated from traditional methods of payment to...

16.04.2025 10

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FPJ Analysis: India Backs Carbon Tax On Shipping

FPJ Analysis: India Backs Carbon Tax On Shipping

The European Union (EU) also voted in favour of the tax, which will become effective from 2028 after the details are finalised in October this year.

15.04.2025 10

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FPJ Analysis: Supreme Court Ruling Curbs Presidential Delays On State Bills, Reinforces Federalism

FPJ Analysis: Supreme Court Ruling Curbs Presidential Delays On State Bills, Reinforces Federalism

Following up on its April 8 order setting limits on gubernatorial discretion in withholding assent to bills passed by state legislatures, the Supreme...

15.04.2025 10

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Tahawwur Rana: One Step Forward, Long Road Ahead To Justice In 26/11

Tahawwur Rana: One Step Forward, Long Road Ahead To Justice In 26/11

The NIA was, incidentally, formed as India’s premier anti-terror body a month after the 26/11 attacks, which claimed 166 lives and left hundreds...

13.04.2025 20

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FPJ Analysis: Maharashtra Govt Adopts Corporate Style

FPJ Analysis: Maharashtra Govt Adopts Corporate Style

A Government Resolution (GR) issued this week legitimises this and, if pursued well, can make the administration more focused on tasks and far more...

13.04.2025 10

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FPJ Analysis: Supreme Court Bats For Federation, Constitution

FPJ Analysis: Supreme Court Bats For Federation, Constitution

A Supreme Court (SC) order on the limits of gubernatorial power passed on April 8 has struck a powerful and much-needed blow in favour of both federal...

11.04.2025 10

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FPJ Analysis: Rejig In CPM, Revival The Goal

FPJ Analysis: Rejig In CPM, Revival The Goal

An 84-member Central Committee was also named, inducting 30 new faces. Baby is only the second leader from Kerala after EMS Namboodiripad to head the...

09.04.2025 10

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FPJ Analysis: Pushback Against Trump Policies

FPJ Analysis: Pushback Against Trump Policies

Americans are now pushing back against the policies of Donald Trump, who has, in a little over two months since his inauguration as US president,...

09.04.2025 20

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FPJ Analysis: India And Sri Lanka Deepen Ties

Modi’s visit was also the first by a foreign leader to Sri Lanka since Dissanayake unexpectedly led his leftist National People’s Power to victory.

08.04.2025 10

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FPJ Analysis: IIT Delhi Reforms Critical

FPJ Analysis: IIT Delhi Reforms Critical

The most important trigger for the institution of the 12-member committee, headed by Santosh Kumar Chaturvedi, a senior psychiatrist from the National...

08.04.2025 10

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FPJ Analysis: Technocratic, Not Democratic, America

FPJ Analysis: Technocratic, Not Democratic, America

The global economic transformation will unfold as time passes, more rapidly now than back then, but there is no doubt that the economic changes will...

06.04.2025 10

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Mumbai: A Malnourished Mayanagri With Over 16,000 Children Affected

Mumbai: A Malnourished Mayanagri With Over 16,000 Children Affected

For years, the spectre of malnutrition among children up to six years of age, which is a determinant of their physical and mental growth, was seen to...

06.04.2025 10

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France: Marine Le Pen Faces Five-Year Electoral Ban, Threatening Her Political Career Amid EU Fund Scandal

Ms Le Pen, who previously made three unsuccessful bids for the Elysee Palace, has vowed to appeal against the verdict, although according to one legal...

03.04.2025 20

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Cardinal Baselios Cleemis' Support For Waqf Bill: Church Must Avoid Politics

Cardinal Baselios Cleemis' Support For Waqf Bill: Church Must Avoid Politics

This signals institutional support for a government move without even knowing its full implications. The church’s endorsement of the Bill, without...

03.04.2025 10

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Mohanlal Starrer L2: Empuraan Controversy: Manufactured Outrage

Mohanlal Starrer L2: Empuraan Controversy: Manufactured Outrage

The outrage with which the BJP has reacted to alleged references to the 2002 Gujarat riots in Mohanlal starrer L2 Empuraan follows a familiar template...

02.04.2025 10

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PM Modi's RSS HQ Visit: Overtures To The Sangh A Tactical Move

PM Modi's RSS HQ Visit: Overtures To The Sangh A Tactical Move

In the nearly 11 years since Modi took over as PM with a sweeping majority and the BJP gained immense ground, becoming the world’s largest political...

02.04.2025 10

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Liberation Day: World vs Donald Trump

Liberation Day: World vs Donald Trump

Exposure to these levies would be immense for capitals from Ottawa to Tokyo and Brussels to Beijing, since nearly half the number of finished cars in...

01.04.2025 20

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Rational Analysis: Trump’s Citizenship Drive May Become A Misdirected Missile

Rational Analysis: Trump’s Citizenship Drive May Become A Misdirected Missile

The Trump administration should take both a humane and pragmatic view of their silent, passive but harmless and comforting presence instead of taking...

01.04.2025 10

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FPJ Analysis: Funds For Clean Air Go Waste As Pollution Rises

This week, the standing committee on science and technology, environment, forests and climate change said it was shocked, in a report tabled in the...

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FPJ Analysis: Meat Shops Shut In Navratri Spark Debate On Classism And Constitutionality

While meat-eating Hindus adopt a restrictive or vegetarian diet during Navratri, it does not mean that meat cannot be sold at all or that everyone...

30.03.2025 8

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FPJ Analysis: User And Elon Musk's AI Abuser

New Delhi is too focused on the pursuit of closer engagement with the highly erratic US president Donald Trump, who has threatened reciprocal tariffs...

25.03.2025 10

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Maqbool Fida Husain: Loving The Art, Disowning The Artist

The successful bid for 'Gram Yatra' also broke the record for an Indian work of art, which was Amrita Sher-Gil’s painting ‘The Story Teller’,...

23.03.2025 20

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Digital Payments: Bill Gates Agenda Of Philanthro-Capitalism

Mr. Gates pledged support for women-centric initiatives like Ladki Bahin Yojana and Lakhpati Didi Yojana, and committed to training 10,000 women in AI...

23.03.2025 20

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Nagpur Violence: Senseless Controversy Over Aurangzeb’s Tomb Sparks Unrest

In the heat of the moment, one crucial fact was ignored: Aurangzeb’s tomb is a protected monument under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)....

20.03.2025 10

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FPJ Analysis: BJP Leader Suvendu Adhikari's Desperate Outburst

Suspended from the Assembly for 30 days from February 17, he said at the gates to the complex on March 11 that his party would throw out all Muslim...

18.03.2025 10

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FPJ Analysis: Reviving Congress Democracy

The last time an inclusive conference of this kind was held was in 2009, which, it is thought, led to a good outcome in terms of electoral results...

18.03.2025 10

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FPJ Analysis: Air India’s Inflight Shame

With both economy and business class toilets affected, continuing the long-haul, non-stop flight would have been impossible.

13.03.2025 10

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FPJ Analysis: Maharashtra's Divisive Politics Over Meat

The premise of this certification is flawed at multiple levels. Rane claims that Hindus and Sikhs prefer jhatka meat, though there is no conclusive...

13.03.2025 10

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FPJ Editorial: Stop This Intolerance

The ‘Aurangzeb’ controversy once again brings this to the foreground. Before getting to it, a few general comments would be in order to outline...

11.03.2025 20

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FPJ Editorial: EPIC Malpractice

Early this month, at a party conclave, she accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of manipulating the...

11.03.2025 10

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FPJ Editorial: Collateral Damage

US president Donald Trump and v-president JD Vance ganged up in an attempt to humiliate and intimidate a guest, Ukrainian president Volodymyr...

04.03.2025 20

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Mathematics Of Delimitation

Before we look at what the Tamil Nadu and Telangana chief ministers have said recently, let’s take a look at the timeline of the delimitation...

04.03.2025 10

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FPJ Editorial: Pune Rape Case

It took 500 police personnel, dog squads, drones and the assistance of nearly 400 villagers, according to official sources, to nab the accused...

02.03.2025 10

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EU Identity Crisis Of It Own Making

They were, in effect, portending the dangers from a potentially tectonic shift away from the lofty ideals of freedom, democracy, equality, respect for...

25.02.2025 9

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Tharoor In Row Again

The Kerala unit of the Grand Old Party was more forthright in its condemnation of Tharoor for praising the LDF government in Kerala, saying the...

19.02.2025 10

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Trump’s Peace Deal Isolates Europe

Even Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky was kept in the dark. In the three years since Moscow invaded Kyiv, Russia has faced tough sanctions...

19.02.2025 10

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FPJ Editorial: Stampede Semantics

Following the stampede in Prayagraj, caused by mismanagement and the genuflection to what has come to be known as the ‘VIP culture,’ the stampede...

18.02.2025 20

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FPJ Editorial: Subsidy And Welfare

Before we examine the arguments in general, let us first specify that the question of providing what we may loosely call subsidies is a...

18.02.2025 20

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India's AI Imperative

After Donald Trump assumed his second term as US President, he announced a $500 billion private sector-driven investment in AI to secure America’s...

13.02.2025 20

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With Biren Gone, Will Peace Return To Manipur?

The big question is, however, whether peace will now return to the violence-hit state.

12.02.2025 10

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Conflicts Gone Wild

One of the dead tigers was found in a plantation, while the other two were discovered in the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary area, where tigers enjoy full...

11.02.2025 4

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DeepSeek: A Chinese Bull In The Silicon Valley

As some have found, DeepSeek performs well and holds its own against fierce competition, except when you ask the Chinese Artificial Intelligence (AI)...

31.01.2025 10

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Saif Ali Khan Stabbing Case: Truth, Nothing But The Truth

The attack on actor Saif Ali Khan continues to raise more questions than answers, despite the Mumbai police claiming to have solved the case with the...

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