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Jawed Naqvi

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Opposition has homework to do

India’s opposition parties might want to figure out their priorities at the outset.

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Fearing the spectre of Godot

For Mamdani’s politics, the 1957 Kerala experiment seems relevant — a communist government in a bourgeois state.

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The power of a gentle prayer

Which player does not have a prayer on their lips when they brace for a tense contest?

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Yorktown, Galwan and Bihar

Bihar is the rare north Indian state where the Hindu right is struggling to take power on its own.

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It’s complex and beautiful

Many would be glued to their sets like their Indian counterparts on Sunday mornings for the hour the legend.

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A pact between kindred spirits

Much has been said about women journalists not being invited to the Afghan press conference by the Taliban foreign minister.

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The trouble with the Arabs

Was the Fahd plan a sleight of hand, an illusion, or the bus the Arabs missed?

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Who desecrates, who sanctifies?

Justice Chandrachud’s decision bequeathed 2.77 acres of land, which had been contested for decades, to the infant deity Ram.

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Isn’t Hindutva embarrassing India?

It can’t be blamed on terrorism that Modi’s India struggles to find stable relations with other neighbours too — of varied

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The false rumble of change

The short-lived street violence in Nepal doesn’t quite seem to fit the description of any upheaval.

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The US is nobody’s ally

Those accusing Trump of betraying India haven’t learnt from history.

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To dump West, embrace BRICS

India has 800m on food dole, signalling the contradiction between its right-wing government shored up by big money

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Like a fearless Rachel Corrie

Handy lessons can be gleaned from Corrie’s murder, both by Priyanka Gandhi and every foreign supporter of the Palestinian struggle

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On a wing and a prayer

Why is it so difficult to instil a simple, inexpensive idea for diplomacy?

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Dissolving India’s worst fears

In one flourish, Gandhi may have helped dissolve widespread fears of a religio-fascist takeover of India.

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India’s US lobby and BRICS

The brouhaha over Trump’s scarecrow tariffs is a deliberately exaggerated reaction.

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About electing a new people

Delivering a theocratic revamping of India’s constitution would need at least a pretence of popular support.

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Diplomacy as a millstone

That nationalism, embodied in the worldview of Hindutva, would be facing a decisive moment soon.

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A crash probe, a flight of fancy

Turning an incomplete probe into a forum of speculative opinions inevitably serves the interests of those who don’t want a fair investigation.

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Meet Zohran Kwame Mamdani

latTo appreciate Zohran’s secular and progressive Hindu and Muslim lineage, it might help to look for a clue in his middle name.

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Trump’s TV jingle for N-weapons

The US leader has run a free jingle to encourage the desire for nuclear weapons among many worried countries.

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America’s last throw of dice

Israel’s transgressions were indulged even before its cynical creation in 1948.

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The cheese on the spectacles

Three of the hotspots experiencing strife today were watching low-hanging fruits of peace, which they were robbed of.

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Lessons from a close call

US President Donald Trump seems to want Modi to find new friends and embrace them, preferably in India’s neighbourhood.

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Banu Mushtaq’s polyglot India

Women writers in South Asia are legion. They write in myriad languages but are read in many more.

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Resume Saarc, renew friendships

Modi’s bullock cart of Hindutva is bound to clash with the guardrails of secular democracy prescribed by Gandhi and Nehru.

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Between Red Square and Pahalgam

Moscow and Beijing have found growing numbers of applicants from across the world keen to join the coalition against Western hegemony.

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Jatayu, the witness in ‘Ramayana’

Why does it seem a challenge to question the government to show evidence that points the finger at Pakistan?

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Bracing for avoidable blunders

The tragedy of Pahalgam is heartrending but it cannot be redressed with war drums.

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Clash of conflicting triangles

The two jostling triangles are in ferment today and India intersects both. They are not equal triangles, however.

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Thanks Iran, for refusing the bomb

Iran says that Trump’s threat won’t work, but level-headed diplomacy could.

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Kunal Kamra’s lonely furrow

In the early Nazification of Germany, there was music and satire to resist the terror.

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The view from Aurangzeb’s grave

The question is who the ideal ruler was, which Aurangzeb was not. Some say it was Akbar, but the Hindu right hates him with often

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A gentleman’s game, a memory

In Narendra Modi’s era, it was refreshing to hear of a Muslim hero remembered with respect.

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India’s left-right centenary

It’s the centenary year of India’s left-right battles, though the journey also witnessed moments of the left’s self-harming collusion with the right.

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Gambling with World War III

The point we may have missed was Trump’s sound advice to Zelensky showing him the door.

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Uncorking the bottled peace

The Fahd Plan presented possibly the most agreeable resolution of the conflict yet, but with a caveat.

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A bicycle crashing into a plane

AAP needs to realistically engage with the Congress as the largest opposition party.

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The spoke in the right wheel

A more immediate challenge faces Modi on his visit to Washington.

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Pythagoras and the holy dip

Science and superstition can also find a way to trudge along together.

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Intermission in the horror movie

Would the horror movie end with any degree of finality or does peace at least look likely to return even if a tad tenuously for now?

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The curious case of Trump invitees

One hopes for the sake of diplomatic dignity with which one grew up in Nehru’s India that the stories about denied invitations are untrue.

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As stags dazzled by headlights

Donald Trump brings worry for some and hope for others. The variation is evident.

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Prometheus or Dr Frankenstein?

DR Manmohan Singh, who passed away at 92 last week, will be remembered in contrarian ways. As finance minister and as prime minister, he condemned...

07.01.2025 60

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Happy New Year from death row

IT’S not difficult to suppose that prisoners also celebrate the New Year, including those on death row. With the advent of the means to annihilate...

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About Zakir’s drumming legacy

IN The Beatles’ scheme the pop quartet assigned to themselves, Ringo Starr kept the rhythm on the drums. But it was John Lennon and Paul McCartney,...

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Kapoors of Bollywood meet Modi

“EVERYONE acts every day of their lives,” said Marlon Brando. Think about it. The air hostess acts with her plastic smile. The politician acts with...

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Straws in the Syrian whirlwind

THE pendulum of zealotry almost always ushers in intellectual subterfuge in its wake. The lightning, if not spontaneous, takeover of Damascus by...

10.12.2024 7

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Are Gandhis equipped for the fight?

PRIYANKA Gandhi is the brand new Congress MP being watched with interest and hope. She won the by-election from Wayanad in Kerala with a massive...

03.12.2024 5

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Waiting for Trump, apprehensively

IS Donald Trump the Godot the world is waiting for, with apprehension and hope? But Godot, as Samuel Beckett’s 1949 cult play suggests, may not...

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