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Dhirendra K Jha

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India
Failing at the Art of Politics

The FDI decision has created a crisis that everyone but the Congress could have foreseen

02 December 2011
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India
India in the Time of Gandhi

Historian Ramachandra Guha has stirred up a controversy with his suggestion of a late 1940s collusion between the Left and Muslim communalists in Hyderabad, but the facts don’t justify his claim

18 November 2011
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India
Fighting over the Prophet’s Birthday

Sunni Sufis have rejected Darul Uloom’s fatwa calling on Muslims to stop celebrating Prophet Muhammad’s birthday

12 November 2011
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India
Sufis vs Deobandis in the Gandhi Stronghold

This critical divide within the Muslim electorate threatens to change old equations in Uttar Pradesh

07 November 2011
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India
New Take on Retirement Benefits

A record number of serving and retired bureaucrats in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab prepare to contest upcoming Assembly elections in the two states next year

15 October 2011
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India
Don’t Count Him Out Ever

Make no mistake, no one other than a Nehru-Gandhi has ever got the better of Pranabda in a battle within the Congress

09 October 2011
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India
Modi’s Muslim Fans

They do exist. And have been growing more vocal by the day. What this says about a minority that has been under pressure in Gujarat

25 September 2011
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India
The Importance of Being Sonia

Why the Congress cannot do without her. And why that presents her with yet another political challenge

17 September 2011
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India
‘No harm in elevating the status (of the Lokpal) to a Constitutional body’

Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi heads the parliamentary Standing Committee in charge of formulating India’s Lokpal Bill. The committee has submitted reports on two other pieces of anti-graft legislation: the Whistleblower and Judicial Accountability bills. He spoke to Dhirendra K Jha on how the Lokpal Bill, together with the two other bills already cleared by the parliamentary panel, will serve as an important bulwark against corruption

17 September 2011
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India
After Nitish, the Flood

In a scandal typical of Bihar, money was sanctioned to repair over a thousand kilometres of zamindari embankments that did not exist. Nobody knows where the funds went

02 September 2011

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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