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In 2019, energised by his terrific Lok Sabha win the Prime Minister set off a series of ideological reforms. The gutting of Article 370, the legislation of the citizenship law and the criminalisation of Muslim divorce. All these came from the Union and the BJP...

The appointment of Nitin Agarwal as the new Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF) comes at a crucial time, coinciding with the bi-annual four-day border talks between the BSF and its Bangladesh counterpart, the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), in Delhi. Those in the...

The much publicised US visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi beginning June 21 is supposedly about strengthening the two countries’ mutually beneficial economic, defence and strategic ties. Both Modi and US President Joe Biden are also poised to face their respective electorate soon. Getting re-elected...

There is every reason to doubt the intent of the 22nd Law Commission of India which has sought views from public and religious organisations about the implementation of the controversial Uniform Civil Code (UCC) that aims at framing one law governing marriages of all communities...

Manipur is burning. It has been turned into a virtual ‘necropolis’, as some women of the state have said with acute pain, with killings in ethnic clashes continuing in the valley and the hills with frightening regularity. Interestingly, the Chief Minister of Manipur had stated...

Thirty years ago the cartoonist Sudhir Tailang drew an image of the then Prime Minister with a caption that had words from the Gita: “This Self, weapons cannot pierce, nor fire can burn, water cannot wet, nor air can dry up. Changeless, all-pervading, unmoving, immovable.”...

As promotions in various ministries/departments are underway, and the chairmen of these bodies sit in on the meetings, having someone who is comparatively junior sitting as a Member of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is becoming a matter of some embarrassment, if murmurs are...

The death of Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister and one of the most remarkably colorful personalities of that country since World War II, marks the end of an era of thrills and fun. At the same time he leaves a dangerous legacy that brackets...

After tasting bitter defeat in the recent Karnataka Assembly elections only few months before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP seems to be in a tearing hurry to re-invent its main political narrative of communal polarisation. This seems to be more so as it...

The frenetic attempt made by former US President Donald Trump to dismiss with utter disdain his indictment by a federal grand jury on charges related to classified documents seized from his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago is not surprising. More than 300 classified documents were recovered during...