While the ruling party thinks nothing of milking a national security situation for electoral purposes, it expects all opposition political forces to desist from “doing politics”
There is a rather thoughtless middle-class view that a scam is not a scam until there is a money trail that leads…
The pity is that the promise of the hug made from the Red Fort may have turned not just into another cruel joke, but into a deepened nightmare
Madness is a topic much discussed From ancient times to ours; Now a crime, now disease, Now an affliction of lovers. …
This amendment comprised the most brazen declaration yet of the coveted assertion that India is a Hindu nation
They die for their cause, We die for ours; Our deaths are propitiated Like those of star-crossed lovers. They kill us,…
Often those who pontificate most vigorously about the desirability of selfless action without thought to the fruits of action seem most contentiously, indeed often violently, to be after the fruit rather than the selflessness
Trump likes strong leadership, But only from the Right; When it comes to Leftwing dictators, Trump turns democrat. The man who…
We were not like the old regime Of Levellers and Diggers, Conferring Rights and distributing Income to “we the people,” As if…
A tragic consequence of the coerced Kashmiri Pandit exodus of 1990 has been the conscious communalization of a common language
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