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The final results of Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly polls are yet to come, but the broad picture is clear enough. In Maharashtra the BJP’s loyal propagandists masquerading as psephologists had been predicting the party would (...)
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2019
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Great Game In Central Asia: China Emerging as a Dominant Player
5 November 2019 -
Vested Interest in Modi-Trump ‘Friendship’
5 November 2019, by Humra Quraishi -
Assembly Poll Verdict Stuns BJP
4 November 2019 -
The Culture of Sycophancy that is ruining Democracy
4 November 2019by Arun Srivastava
Bhakti, devotion or hero-worship is an important element in Indian politics, unequalled in magnitude by the part it plays in the politics of any other country. If in religion Bhakti is the road to spiritual redemption, in (...) -
RSS Combine: Ideology, Violence and Power
4 November 2019by Ram Puniyani
The RSS is the major organisation influencing politics and other aspects of our society for the last nearly three decades. As such it has the agenda of a Hindu Rashtra, and it politics is called Hindutva, which is the politics (...) -
Kashmir: Hunting with the hounds and playing with the hare
4 November 2019by Mustafa Khan
There is arcane silence in the Kashmir Valley. It is fraught with the danger that there is some sinister conspiracy of tiring out the enemy by prolonging the lockdown and continuing the stasis of hunting with the wolf and playing (...) -
Changing Caste-Class Equations: Emergence of a New Politics in India
4 November 2019by Kunal Kumar Yadav
The emergence of new caste-class equation in India is a phenomenon which needs serious attention and an indepth analysis. The movement of the lower castes’ affiliation towards the cultural narrative has given a new direction (...) -
The Failing Art of Selling Normalcy in Kashmir
4 November 2019, by Badri Raina -
Wanted: Not Drift But Statesmanship
4 November 2019, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
In 1967, that is, fiftytwo years ago, N.C. visited the Kashmir Valley for a few days and held detailed discussions with a wide cross-section of opinion-makers and political personalities of all shades there. On his return he (...) -
Strong Executive, Weak Courts: Collapsing Edifice of Judicial Independence
4 November 2019by Prannv Dhawan and Anmol jain
Introduction
The downgrading of the credentials of India’s constitutional democracy has been a subject of severe domestic and global critique in recent times. Nevertheless, the Indian diplomatic positions in the (...)
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