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Judiciary negotiates around Executive stonewall

01 Nov 2021

Did the Narendra Modi government buy the highly intrusive Israeli spyware Pegasus to snoop on Indian politicians, activists and journalists? The question has been begging for an answer since...

India’s quest for Big Power status

18 Oct 2021

In the last half-a-century, India’s unstated Big Power aspirations have manifested themselves on several occasions. They figured, at least as a remote objective, in the nuclear tests ordered by Prime...

A crucial year ahead for PM Modi

11 Oct 2021

Since becoming the Prime Minister in 2014, Narendra Modi has helped the Bharatiya Janata Party to extend its footprint across India. Today the BJP is India’s largest political party, holding...

Indian PM Modi back on the world stage

27 Sep 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week resumed his global peregrinations, which were interrupted by the COVID pandemic, with a visit to the United States. He spent three days in...

Executive, judiciary need to bridge differences

20 Sep 2021

BRP Bhaskar, Political Commentator India’s Supreme Court is quietly grappling with repeated attempts by the government to put back into the law certain ideas it has rejected as unconstitutional....

No solution in sight to Indian farmers’ protests

13 Sep 2021

Last September the Narendra Modi government pushed through Parliament a set of three laws, billed as a farm sector reforms package. A year later they remain unimplemented, not to say...

Fresh stimulus needed to boost India economy

06 Sep 2021

When COVID-19 struck, India’s was the fastest growing large economy. The pandemic knocked it hard. For the first time in half a century the economy, instead of growing, contracted —by...

India’s dilemma as Afghanistan roils in uncertainty

23 Aug 2021

India is yet to formulate a coherent policy on Afghanistan which fell into Taliban’s lap last week even before all US troops were out of the country. It was...

India@75 faces challenges of a new kind

09 Aug 2021

India enters its 75th year as a free nation next Sunday. In a lyrical speech that reverberated for years in the ears of those who had the good fortune to...

Need to return to ideals of Constitution

02 Aug 2021

On a five-day visit to New Delhi last week, West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee held consultations with leaders of several parties on forging a united front to take on...

BRP Bhaskar

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

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