Opinion | SoBo’s No-Show Isn’t Because Of Ennui Or Disenchantment, But Arrogance Of Access
Maharashtra, India’s second most electorally influential state, has voted. On Saturday at lunchtime, we will know for whom. But given the experience of the recent past, the mandate itself may not throw up a winner. Some among the six major parties are known to disregard the verdict and could easily switch sides to form the […]
Read MoreManipur Crisis Caused By Illegal Immigration From Neigbouring Nations: CM Biren Singh To News18
N Biren Singh, chief minister of trouble-torn Manipur, told CNN-News18 in an exclusive interview on Tuesday that the primary reason for the crisis is the illegal immigration from neighbouring countries, the increasing number of unnamed villages, and mass deforestation by these immigrants. “It was unfortunate that my house was attacked,” he said. “This happened due to […]
Read MoreThe Diversity Trap – What’s wrong with the AMU judgment?
IN THE TIME Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud wielded the gavel, he reminded us about the difference being different makes. Such was his commitment that one time he even presumed to re-write the coda of biology. Confusing sex with gender, he observed, “There is no absolute concept of a man or an absolute […]
Read MoreOpinion | He-Donnit: Why Donald Trumped Left-Liberal Favourite Kamala
It wasn’t the prettiest fight. It wasn’t the cleanest. It wasn’t a fight for a higher cause. And as it turned out, it wasn’t even a close fight. But Donald Trump is no saint and he isn’t complaining. In the weeks ahead, he will be coronated and will formally take on the title of, as […]
Read MoreOriginal Sin – Isn’t it time to dismantle the laws that nationalised Hinduism?
A FOULED GUN CARTRIDGE, in its time, has been known to spark an insurrection, but a laddu? While the jury is still out on who greased the holy laddus offered at the Tirumala Tirupati temple, one shouldn’t underestimate their power to trigger sectarian anxiety. The Hindus who turned on the British in 1857 for handing […]
Read MoreHate against the RSS is being normalised – Rahul Shivshankar
The RSS today not only has a vibrant and growing Muslim wing but works in Muslim-dominated areas too. Moreover, its rank and file is populated by Dalits, tribals, and OBCs and its reach has increased among other marginalised Indians. While an avowedly “social-cultural” organisation, the RSS has used its growing appeal to nourish and influence […]
Read MoreYogi Adityanath: The Last Action Hero
Can Yogi Adityanath restore the grand Hindu social coalition? THE WORDS IN Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s vocabulary are a blunt instrument. Like the bulldozers he routinely sends out to supposedly level the playing field of justice, his unfiltered words bludgeon their way to the top of the national talking points trend list. […]
Read MoreAsylum Is the Answer
Protection of Bangladesh’s Hindus is NDA’s burden WHEN THE PIERCING glare of the world began to strip away the barely disguised veneer of bigotry, when Hindus, for once, spoke up as one, Muhammad Yunus, the interim head of the Bangladesh government, went into damage control mode. Acknowledging the rising tide of xenophobia directed against the […]
Read MoreTowards Pakistan 2.0?
t least Sheikh Hasina got to set the terms of her departure from office. The military got her to sign her own resignation, rustled up a chopper, and flew her out to India. A few saris and a brave face, we are told, was all she was allowed to carry with her. Her own father, Sheikh […]
Read MoreDurbar Had To Go
THE LUCKY FEW who had been shown into the Durbar Hall of the rashtrapati’s house would have been struck by its courtliness. The mammoth Belgian chandelier that dangles over the ‘head of the Republic’ from the domed hall illuminates a day punctuated by crusty protocol. Essentially, fripperies fit for a regent. Beyond the protocol, there […]
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