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By Aakar Patel Democracies correct themselves through elections. The leadership of every nation is imperfect, and the problems become especially visible when strongman leaders take charge. With great power comes great overreach, and with overreach comes pushback. The American people have pushed back against their...

By Dilip Cherian While there is a diplomatic thaw between India and Canada, turning it into a meaningful trade pact is another thing. High Commissioner Dinesh K. Patnaik has his hands full. The proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) is ambitious, with the two countries...

The infidelity of the Nvidia co-founder, Jensen Huang, the AI tech giant company’s CEO, who recently admitted he had been cheating on his wife, could have been dismissed as a personal issue and a private affair. But the enormity of the moral turpitude is such...

The quality of air that people across cities in India have been breathing on Deepabali nights for the past few years appears to indicate that citizens are kind of determined to make their own lives miserable. Neither citizens nor those entrusted with governing them seem...

By Aakar Patel Attacks on Bengali Christians and their churches have begun following the BJP's victory in the state. Last week, a group of us, led by Karwan-e-Mohabbat, the organisation founded by former IAS officer Harsh Mander, heard testimonies from Christians across the state. We...

By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of the Union Home Ministry, even before they begin their careers in their respective state cadres. In a first, the 78RR batch of 151 officer trainees,...

The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some actions of the authorities and the subsequent suspension of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Manasvi Vashishta, who led the protest, for “violation of discipline” has...

More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement, retaliatory attacks and the deepening mistrust between communities with both the state government and the Centre having failed miserably in bringing normalcy to the restive...

The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on 1 November against the illegal acts of the Election Commission headed by CEC Gyanesh Kumar. The EC has deleted over...

By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this before, but the principal argument is that the inability of Nepal, before 2008, to become a Hindu Rashtra in the full meaning of the term...