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Pratap Bhanu MehtaIndian Express |
The arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is a watershed moment in India’s slide towards a full blown tyranny. Much of what this...
The enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Rules is a perfect embodiment of a polity where rulers are utterly cynical, and their supporters...
The relentless attention to the pre-wedding ceremony of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant is a fascinating window into the vast shifts in both the...
Two recent decisions by the Supreme Court, declaring the electoral bonds scheme unconstitutional and pronouncing AAP the winner in the mayoral race in...
Today the Supreme Court of the United States is hearing what might possibly turn out to be one of the most consequential court cases in the history of...
There are various aspects of Lord Ram that have kept our devotion to him strong over millennia. India is the only pre-Bronze Age culture that is still...
There are moments in history that appear to drive wave after wave of people in a great torrent of catharsis, ecstasy, emotion and an elevated group...
2024 may be politically one of the most fateful years for the planet in recent memory. Elections will be held in most of the world’s major...
It is a monumental tragedy that the government’s suspension of more than 140 MPs is still being seen merely as a political contest between the...
There is a horrific war unfolding in Gaza. The war itself was a response to Hamas’ barbaric attack on Israel. But the scale of what Israel is...
The judgment of the Supreme Court, upholding the abrogation of Article 370, is a massive legal victory for the Narendra Modi government’s approach...
The BJP’s emphatic victory in north India in the recent assembly elections has reopened the question: What can be the strategy for the Opposition,...
Henry Kissinger’s eventful 100-year life has become, to use W H Auden’s phrase about Freud, a “whole climate of opinion”. He shaped the post...
It has been 24 days since the barbaric Hamas attack on Israel. Two hundred-odd hostages are still captive. This has been followed by an unprecedented...
In its latest judgment, the Supreme Court of India has taken some steps to protect same sex unions from discrimination, and granted those unions...
Political developments in America and Europe over the last few weeks are again putting a spotlight on the global politics of the war in Ukraine ....
The transition to a new Parliament building is one more marker in India’s new Age of Ambition. Amid all the immediate dangers our democracy faces,...