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A brief history of an unholy parliamentary practice
27 October 2023The upcoming Assembly elections will provide BJP cues for the General Election next year
20 October 2023An Opposition alliance has unseated a strong incumbent at the Centre only when it has had a promise to sell and a charismatic leader. The anti-Modi alliance has neither while its own contradictions threaten to pull it apart
06 October 2023Women’s empowerment has always been at the core of Prime Minister Modi’s vision for India
22 September 2023Modi has changed India’s terms of engagement with the world by democratising G20 and leveraging the summit to Delhi’s advantage. His India can now set and steer bigger agendas
15 September 2023The Modi government resists economic appeasement even as Opposition-ruled states revel in it
01 September 2023The long trail of how China influences ideologically friendly media and activists in India—and a prominent figure in the nexus is a senior CPM leader
11 August 2023The Uniform Civil Code will have a liberating effect on the Muslim community. Only the clerics need to fear
28 July 2023Mohammad Al-Issa’s visit unveils a reformed Saudi Arabia that advocates religious moderation and values India’s partnership
14 July 2023CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
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 is the author of several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj
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 is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.