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Partnership not at the cost of autonomy

12 Oct 2020

Close on the heels of a meeting of Quad Foreign Ministers, the United States administration made a big push last week to elevate ties with India. Quad, short for Quadrilateral...

National outrage over UP gang rape case

05 Oct 2020

A high-handed attempt to blot out a gang rape case in Uttar Pradesh has sparked nationwide protests, causing acute embarrassment to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. The...

Covert attempt to snub equality of citizens

28 Sep 2020

A Hindutva project aimed at re-establishing primacy of the Vedic community is on. In 2016, two years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office, the Ministry of Culture set up...

Congress needs plan to take on divisive forces

14 Sep 2020

The Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has reasserted its supremacy in the Congress, which led the freedom movement and wielded power for most of the years of Independence. In reorganising the party’s...

Lessons from history for India and China

07 Sep 2020

The India-China face-off on the Himalayan heights has entered the fifth month. Several rounds of talks at military and diplomatic levels have not led to disengagement at any of the...

A prescription for environmental failure

31 Aug 2020

On March 23 this year the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change released a set of draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) rules drawn up to replace the ones in...

Caught on the horns of a dilemma

24 Aug 2020

India’s Supreme Court, which prides in being the world’s most powerful judiciary, is in the unenviable position of being “damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” A three-judge...

Deepening worry over diminishing freedoms

17 Aug 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a big pitch for a new, self-reliant India in his address to the nation on Independence Day from the ramparts of Delhi’s Red Fort. ...

Content of education holds the key

10 Aug 2020

The new National Education Policy (NEP) approved by the government of India last week is a mixed bag. Some parts of it reflect ideas the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s ideological...

Clueless on way forward in Kashmir

03 Aug 2020

A year has passed since the Modi administration, in a high-handed action, ended the special status Jammu and Kashmir had enjoyed under India’s Constitution. It was on August 5...

BRP Bhaskar

Indian journalist with over 50 years of newspaper, news agency and television experience.

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