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Bhupendra Patel: The New ‘Dada’ of Gujarat
Ullekh NP
The state’s new chief minister is a politician who has risen through the ranks
The Problem with the Illiberal Label
India remains a democracy and has been so except for a brief period when elections were suspended and fundamental rights curbed across the land
Conceal the Way You Dream
The daily hope and despair have never appeared more vivid and more insignificant, the abstractions of politics never felt this gigantic and remote, and never has religion seemed so weak a palliative
Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund: ISI’s Man in Kabul
A hardliner with no constituency or charisma, he epitomises a Taliban controlled by Pakistan
The Mughal Fetish
In one of their enduring obsessions, Hindi shows and films either exoticise or vilify Muslim rulers
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