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For politics which runs without fear or favour

If every MP has freedom of speech, every party has well-considered patience with the MP who uses that freedom, and the public puts cynicism aside and...

20.02.2025 10

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The Republic’s journey so far, the journey ahead

The Republic of India at 75 is a nation to be proud of and to work for. But it is also a human society that needs urgent medicament, for its body and...

26.01.2025 10

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The right choices for a world at the crossroads

The year 2024 scorched and scalded but just about let the planet survive. Let us hope that the new year, despite portents of war and worsening of...

01.01.2025 3

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Prime minister, great economist, a greater ethicist

Gopalkrishna Gandhi reflects on his interactions with Dr. Manmohan Singh, highlighting his civility, integrity, and the importance of ethics in...

28.12.2024 3

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The need to protect the sanctity of the Preamble

Why apex court’s ruling on the amendment of the Constitution during the Emergency to include secularism and socialism in thePreamble sets off mixed...

08.12.2024 3

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Silence on portents of a global conflict

Why are global leaders not speaking out against all the war-like activity across the world?

17.11.2024 3

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In Gaza and Beirut, the echoes of a tragic past

To understand what is being done to children in Gaza and Ukraine, recollect what the Holocaust did to Jewish children. Indian diplomacy may have...

27.10.2024 30

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Listening to the inner voice for inner peace

We do not have social philosophers like Jayaprakash Narayan among us today, to caution us about our follies. But let us not imagine we do not have...

23.09.2024 2

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Of freedoms gained, lost, and gained again

It is Muhammad Yunus’s wise mind, Saroj Devi’s generous soul and Arshad Nadeem’s pure heart that constitute true independence

15.08.2024 3

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The dangers of breaching parliamentary propriety

Spending public-financed hours in name-calling and finger-pointing carries a big risk: It may well make the people of India indifferent to Parliament

03.08.2024 2

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