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Year Ender 2025 examines how Nitish Kumar’s 2024 switch, welfare politics, institutional tilt and failed mass mobilisation have left India’s...
It’s a wonder this column survived in an era when freedom of the press is no longer guaranteed, and owners, fearing raids and cases, often rein in...
Denied self-determination and fair elections, the people of Kashmir have endured decades of misery. Addressing their political grievances, even in...
It would seem that such a scenario is being realised with the instruments of fear, the State’s financial resources, and the Election Commission of...
New York mayor-elect’s victory shows that a leader can neutralise the politics of hate while being unapologetic about his identity and stir the...
From boyhood, the CPI(ML) general secretary has dreamt of liberating the millions who are socially shackled. The party, once underground, grows too...
It appears that only movies that portray the State darkly, refer to caste conflict or treat religious minorities with empathy stir the Central Board...
This is bandied about by the commentariat to make those belonging to subaltern groups feel guilty about rooting for their own leaders in the electoral...
Erosion of trust in poll body, perceived to be favouring the saffron party, can be arrested if citizens have reason to believe it’s possible to...
Jan Suraaj founder’s popularity among Biharis points to popular disenchantment with established leaders, whose votes the political outsider is...
Last names are far bigger impediments to forging national unity than public expressions of identities, which the Uttar Pradesh government has...
Believing you are ordinary, you opt not to make a big deal about the day you were born, wanting your friends to wish you without a prompt. You have a...
The alacrity with which the SC reviewed petitions on the stray dog issue is in stark contrast to bail applications of nine of the 18 accused in the...
India’s international woes spring from its failure to address the disquiet in Kashmir and attempts at establishing Hindutva’s supremacy at home...
By failing to terminate the revision of Bihar’s electoral roll, which brazenly seeks to strip lakhs of voters of the right to exercise their...
In this imagined story, a mother forgetting Jawaharlal Nehru becomes a metaphor for an India seeking to erase its first prime minister from popular...
While the American President’s intimidation evokes outrage, we seem surprisingly accepting of the dystopian vision that our own leaders’ both...
The presence of thousands of bogus voters on Mahadevapura’s electoral rolls points to, at best, gross negligence on part of the poll body whose lack...
The population of Bangladeshi Muslims residing here is most likely nowhere near the figure cited by government, as evidenced by the low number of...
The medical reason Dhankhar cited in his resignation letter is universally disbelieved, suggesting the nation reflexively knows a wide spectrum of...
The decision to link citizenship with voter enrolment introduces an irritant in the two countries’ unique relationship, chiefly because they have...
The revision of electoral rolls in Bihar is but a recent example of the cruel surprises sprung on the toiling masses by the powers that be, who deeply...
While a recently issued ad states that citizenship documents need not be submitted to be considered eligible to vote, the spectre of mass...
The procedure for revising the state’s electoral rolls resembles that laid out for preparing the National Register of Citizens, sparking fears of...
The West Asian country seems fated to exist in a state of perpetual paranoia, as its foundational vision calls for interminable violence, until its...
The number of citizens indicating they have transcended community identities, such as those committed to egalitarian ideals or Hindutva, will likely...
The Srinagar native’s short story collection, The World With Its Mouth Open, stirs readers’ conscience while vividly depicting the lives of...
The heterogeneity of India’s largest minority appears unfathomable to those who laud Col Sofiya Qureshi but have stayed mum on the recent...
An India-Pakistan draft agreement on J&K, ready to be signed in 2013-14 but eventually wasn’t, seemed largely acceptable to Prime Minister Modi....
Here are some: Has the perception of Pakistan’s military capabilities changed? Has Modi lost or gained? Will Hindutva be diluted? Does our foreign...
The crackdown on independent journalists trying to uncover the truth, while mainstream outlets unabatedly peddle fake news, has created the perception...
History teaches us there will be peace in the Valley only when Kashmiris’ political rights and aspirations are recognised, the prospect of which...
Kashmiris’ disapproval of the Baisaran massacre could have been used to forge a new reality in the Valley, but their commiserations were lost in the...
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