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Have the people had enough yet?

More than the people whom they represent in a democracy, in whose name they supposedly serve, elections in India have often been about leaders and...

20.04.2024 8

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Herald View: A blueprint to repair India’s soul, its democracy

A tad bemused by the insipid response in the morning-after newspapers to the new Congress manifesto, we decided to ask the omniscient Dr Google to...

13.04.2024 8

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Herald View: Making a mockery of ‘free and fair’ elections

There was a time when India’s election exercise was the envy of the democratic world. The Election Commission of India, which is vested with the...

06.04.2024 9

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The CAA: The coming of a Hindu Rashtra

We hear that any day now the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) Rules may be notified. The Act itself, which effectively shows Muslims their place in the...

04.03.2024 10

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Herald View: Why the electoral bonds judgement is too little, too late

On 15 February, after what seemed like an eternity, the Supreme Court of India finally pronounced the electoral bond scheme ‘unconstitutional’. It...

25.02.2024 10

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Herald View: The horrors of Haldwani

Some of us may have become inured to the miscarriage of justice, especially when Muslims are at the receiving end. But the cockiness with which the...

18.02.2024 10

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HERALD VIEW: The battle of their lives, but not without hope

How do you keep hope alive in the future of India as the nation we knew it to be? The idea of India as a multi-faith, multi-lingual ‘Union of...

04.02.2024 30

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Their master's voice: The media circus around Ayodhya

The contentious BBC documentary on Narendra Modi’s role in the Gujarat riots of 2002, banned in India in January last year, included a revealing...

28.01.2024 9

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HERALD VIEW: In Ayodhya, the birth of a temple, the death of a culture

It’s not just ‘compulsive contrarians’—that breed of dissenters made famous by the late Arun Jaitley—who find the celebratory fervour of The...

22.01.2024 10

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HERALD VIEW|Bilkis, maybe there’s hope still

It was Independence Day in 2022 when the 11 rapists of Bilkis Bano walked free, even as Prime Minister Modi waxed eloquent on ‘nari shakti’ in his...

13.01.2024 6

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Let us move away from perceptions of ‘specialness’

Why do we have an International Day of Persons with Disabilities? Are we special? Should we be called ‘divyang’, meaning that disabled people are...

10.12.2023 10

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Manipur is still burning, but who cares?

The state of Manipur, which erupted in ethnic violence more than seven months ago, is still burning. But it has gone off media headlines long since,...

10.12.2023 7

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Herald View: Waking up to the menace of deepfake

Deepfake is the new buzzword in town—even media is suddenly all agog. A prominent English weekly put it on its most recent cover: how couldn’t it,...

02.12.2023 8

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Herald View: Tunnel vision is taking its toll

Is the Modi’s government’s pet Char Dham Pariyojana about devotion, development or defence? It’s hard to tell if you were to simply go by the...

27.11.2023 30

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Herald View: Survival of the richest - The India story

Even at the risk of offending some people, let’s replay that sharp-witted, often-repeated Aaron Levenstein line on statistics. The American academic...

18.11.2023 10

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Herald View: Electoral bonds and the voters' right to know

On 31 October, a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court of India started hearing petitions challenging the controversial electoral bonds...

04.11.2023 10

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Herald View: In praise of the lord

Should the government abandon ‘governance’ just because polling is due in five states and general elections are seven months away, fumed BJP...

28.10.2023 5

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Herald View: War games in Palestine and PM Modi's myopic agenda

Maybe we are naïve to expect that world leaders of stature, a self-styled Vishwaguru included, and all those summiteering great powers of the G7/...

14.10.2023 10

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Herald View: The public shaming of Parliament

The recently concluded special session of Parliament will be remembered for many reasons. It showed up the intentions of this government and the party...

30.09.2023 10

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Herald View: Women’s reservation bill, 2023 – A phony deferred promise

By now you’ve read or heard about the mysterious circumstances in which the Women’s Reservation Bill 2023 was introduced in the just-concluded...

23.09.2023 10

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Herald View: The circus that came to town

You’ve heard, of course, what a great coup The Great Leader pulled off in the capital recently. The ‘New Delhi Declaration’ is apparently the...

18.09.2023 7

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Herald View: One nation, many states

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s faith in democracy, plurality and federalism has always been suspect. Its ideologues M.S. Golwalkar and Deendayal...

08.09.2023 3

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