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These days in India have brought us an accurate reproduction of the days leading up to Partition. Indians are being forced to choose their politics based on religion because the state is insisting on it. The Prime Minister is capable of identifying protesters by the...

A few months ago, the highly publicised resignations by three IAS officers created consternation in government circles. Kannan Gopinathan, an AGMUT cadre officer and Sasikanth Senthil, a Karnataka cadre officer, resigned from service alleging the shrinking space for dissent in the country. They cited the...

In aggregate, payments banks — Airtel, India Post, Fino, Jio, NSDL and Paytm among them — have seen their losses mount to Rs 626 crore in March 2019 from Rs 515.6 crore the previous year. It raises questions about the banking system that the Reserve...

All of us want peace on earth; but as we grow in size, we humans have become more distressed and drift apart from each other. While we live together like lemmings, we do not behave like lemmings who live in harmony. We have split the...

The Union government has pushed for cleanliness within the country through its Swachh Bharat Mission. But it appears the space programme of the country may be guilty of littering the final frontier; at least Pakistan’s Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry thinks so. He...

Significantly, the BJP lost power and tasted defeat in one more state that went to Assembly polls. Jharkhand saw an anti-Modi verdict as results were out on Monday. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and its allies, the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) together,...

The loss of lives and destruction of property during the current countrywide protests against Citizenship (Amendment) Act is extremely saddening. The Act, per se, makes no secret of its intentions. But its ambiguity is the cause for discomfort and is precisely placed in a way...

We should examine why such strong protests have broken out across India and are being covered across the world. The government says that there is confusion in the minds of the protestors and a lack of knowledge about its legislation and proposed actions on citizenship....

Gujarat is the go-to state for the Modi sarkar when it needs more trusted hands at the Centre. In the days of Modi, babus from the state have a disproportionate presence in the capital. Following Modi’s long stint in Gujarat as chief minister, many of...

The all-powerful GST Council meeting Wednesday decided to hold on to existing GST rates and slabs. That the meeting happened at a time when revenue collections have been lower than expected and GST compensations to states have been stuck had us to believe that the...