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Constitution Vs Democracy?
Madhav Khosla
Is India at a moment where its democracy is in battle with its Constitution?
Kandahar 1999: Story of a Hijacking
The first-person narrative recalls the drama that kept India awake for seven fateful nights
Who is an Indian?
The amended citizenship law clears the path to the naturalisation of persecuted minorities in India’s neighbourhood even as misplaced alarmism portrays it as anti-Muslim
Shiv Sena’s Last Stand
Uddhav Thackeray turned the party genteel but in the process deprived it of the aggression that fuelled its growth. The price of his chief ministership is being hostage to old family friend Sharad Pawar
The Epic Epiphany
The abiding attraction of the Ramayana to Indian society, and to the Indian mind, lies in the innumerable idealised social relations that abound in the epic. Its importance as a template for social bonds is what is often missed in the textual discussions that preoccupy scholars
Where Did the Temples Go?
Justice has been meted out for a historical wrong. Hindus waited for this moment for five centuries and have taken it with dignified restraint. A majority of Muslims too have understood that they were misled by vested interests and it was wrong to destroy and appropriate the places of worship of others
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