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Why India needs Rahul Gandhi

India’s general elections commenced on 19 April (and will conclude on 1 June), encompassing an electorate of nearly 970 million people,...

yesterday 10

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Ashok Swain

Only the citizenry can bring democracy back on track

Our democracy has never been self-sufficient or complete. The past decade has witnessed a noticeable slide. A combination of authoritarianism and...

yesterday 6

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Ashok Vajpeyi

Laws that leave scars

The primary function of Parliament is to legislate. When we elect members to the Lok Sabha, we are choosing who will write and pass our laws. In...

previous day 10

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Aakar Patel

No Ms Sharma, I'm not proud to be Indian in Modi's India

I don't know what brain supplement Palki Sharma has been taking of late, some kind of Patanjali churan probably, but I would advise her to...

saturday 30

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Avay Shukla

Herald View: The Constitution question

On 1 May, missing All Fool’s Day by a whole month, the social media handles of Prime Minister Narendra Modi put out a video clip in which he is...

saturday 10

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Herald View

A slippery slope for the BJP

Just two days after the first phase of voting for the Lok Sabha election on 19 April, Prime Minister Narendra Modi suddenly broke into the most...

28.04.2024 10

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Sharad Gupta

The jumlas are falling flat this time

It is never easy or safe to read the mood of this huge, diverse nation—particularly in the midst of a national election that is well spread out,...

28.04.2024 5

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Jagdish Rattanani

Electoral bonds: A colonisation from within

This much should be now clear and settled for any reasonable person: the electoral bond scheme was an extortion racket, even if we grant that was...

27.04.2024 40

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Jagdish Rattanani

Herald View: The audacity of hope

The title and sub-title of former US president Barack Obama’s 2006 tome seem a rather fitting way to express the sentiment at this point on ‘...

27.04.2024 4

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