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Kejriwal knew he had wholehearted Muslim support

16 Feb 2020

The poll verdict in Delhi has become a major event in the country’s politics — the AAP victory looks extraordinary in the face of a determined bid of the BJP...

Is there a good reason to disparage nationalism?

31 Jan 2020

The anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) agitation, strengthened by the political opposition to the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) project, is built around the narrative that the Modi regime intended...

The return of agitational politics spells doom

20 Jan 2020

Political history of independent India amply illustrates how street agitations have been used as a potent instrument by the opposition to create an anti-incumbency environ against an otherwise well entrenched...

A minister in the ‘mission and delivery’ mode

06 Jan 2020

Intelligence Bureau’s Centenary Endowment Lecture on December 23 was appropriately delivered by the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, who analysed the security scenario of the country in some detail —...

Citizenship Amendment Act shrouded in ambiguity

30 Dec 2019

It is good that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has in his speech at Ramlila Maidan Delhi on December 22 categorically declared that there was no discussion on a National Register...

India falls short in curbing an animalistic crime

23 Dec 2019

The recent cases of hapless women being caught unawares by groups of vagrants, raped and then brutally murdered — evidently to block detection and identification of the offenders — have...

CAB: India’s bid to rescue persecuted minorities

16 Dec 2019

The alacrity with which Union Home Minister Amit Shah has pushed the new Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) through the two Houses of Parliament reflects the determination of the Modi regime...

The wider ramifications of diplomatic overtures

13 Dec 2019

Diplomacy primarily is an instrument for advancing the cause of the nation’s economic and security policy — foreign policy quite simply is the product of the country’s economic and security...

A ‘numbers game’ that feeds on deficit of public morality

04 Dec 2019

Uddhav Thackeray’s roller coaster ride to chief ministership of Maharashtra reaffirms the supremacy of the democratic principle in electoral politics that a party or a coalition commanding majority in the...

India-China equation post Mamallapuram

03 Nov 2019

The most important takeaway from the informal summit between Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping at Mamallapuram, formerly Mahabalipuram — the second since Wuhan that happened in April 2018...

DC Pathak

The writer is a former director of the Intelligence Bureau in India.

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