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Sea Change

Rajeev Deshpande

INS Vikrant is an important step towards a comprehensive naval policy that looks beyond deterring the Chinese threat in the Indian Ocean

Can Congress Be Saved?

Rajeev Deshpande

The party has announced elections to its president’s post in a victory for the rebels whose ranks included Ghulam Nabi Azad till recently. All eyes are now on Rahul Gandhi in a test of his resolve not to contest

AAP: The Unravelling

PR Ramesh

Delhi’s liquor scam is the biggest but not the only crisis to have hit the AAP government. Across sectors, from education and health to largescale freebies, the Arvind Kejriwal regime faces charges of corruption, some of which even hark back to the early years of the party

Who Wants Salman Rushdie Killed?

S Prasannarajan

Thirty-three years after the fatwa, the author of the Satanic Verses was grievously injured in an assassination attempt at a literary event in New York. The attack, by a 24-year-old man inspired by the forces unleashed by the late Ayatollah Khomeini, reminds the world how alive is the murderous fury of radical Islam against the freedom of ideas and imagination