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Opinion | Murder in Hubballi to Mangalsutras: Does Hindu Vote Consolidation Hold the Key to Phase 2?

Written By: Rahul Shivshankar News18.com Last Updated: April 25, 2024, 15:02 IST New Delhi, India If Phase 1 was deemed the trickiest...

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Opinion | BJP Begins as Underdog: Why Phase 1 is Tricky for Modi in the Quest for ‘400 Paar’

Written By: Rahul Shivshankar News18.com Last Updated: April 18, 2024, 10:52 IST New Delhi, India The prime minister is so confident...

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Opinion | The Age of Influence: Why China Grudges Musk's Pivot to India

Written By: Rahul Shivshankar CNN-News18 Last Updated: April 16, 2024, 22:21 IST New Delhi, India Prime Minister Narendra Modi with...

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Opinion | BJP is Not Taking Turncoats to Establish Hegemony by Emptying the Opposition, Its Project is Long-Term

Written By: Rahul Shivshankar News18.com Last Updated: April 08, 2024, 15:41 IST New Delhi, India As the BJP grows and becomes the...

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Opinion | Rahul from Wayanad: Sacrificing Self-Esteem And Secular Symbolism for Survival

Written By: Rahul Shivshankar CNN-News18 Last Updated: April 03, 2024, 21:19 IST New Delhi, India Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (File...

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Opinion | CAA, Kejriwal, Action on Congress: US Sermon to India is Hypocrisy at its Best, Moral Imperialism at its Worst

Washington has lost imperium but that hasn’t made it less of a moral imperialist. In a gratuitous display of paternalism, the US has decided to...

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OPINION | There Are Questions To Be Asked. But Linking Kejriwal's Arrest To India's Slide Into Tyranny Isn't One Of Them

For the longest time, bringing a politician to heel became synonymous with inviting grievous consequences. The full panoply of what these consequences...

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Opinion | A Raja’s Remarks Betray DMK’s Twitchiness as Modi-Annamalai Tamil Connect Grows

The DMK is back to paying obeisance at the altar of Tamil nationalism. The latest supplicant from its ranks is Andimuthu Raja who is also a Member of...

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Opinion: Brand, Baaja and Bharat

Weddings edify the power of commitment. This might be stating the obvious, but not if you’re an Ambani. The Anant Ambani-Radhika Merchant...

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Opinion | CAA Coming Soon: Time to Debunk Myths That Almost Dented NDA’s Shield Against Islamist Hate

It’s the one “Modi guarantee” that almost fell between the cracks. For almost five years now, the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) – widely...

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Opinion | Greater than Gaganyaan: 5 Reasons Why India Must Not Make A Virtue of ISRO’s Shoestring Budget

They won’t go boldly where no Indian has gone before (that first belongs to Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma), but India’s four space astronauts will...

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Opinion | The Savarkar the Ideological Left Will Never Tell You About

For some weeks now, the BJP’s opponents have been calling upon voters to halt Narendra Modi’s march towards a third term. These BJP critics...

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Opinion | Manush or Mafia? TMC’s Commitment to Constitutional Democracy On Test At Sandeshkhali

Those that seek recourse in whataboutery are deeply convinced that two wrongs always make a right. If you accuse practitioners of ‘whataboutism’...

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Opinion | National Interest Demands NDA Holds The Line And Its Nerve in The Face of Ruinous Maximum Subsidy Politics (MSP)

They’re back menacing Delhi’s borders. And they’re better prepared. Armed with tractors, modified to look like the hulking haunches of Japan’s...

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8 Indian Navy Veterans Freed by Qatar: Win for ‘Modiplomacy’ Confirms India Regularly Punching Much above Diplomatic Weight under NDA

They are back. Eight magnificent naval men, who had been condemned to life in purgatory by Qatar. When news broke last year that these eight men had...

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Opinion | Yogi’s Poetic Ode to Kashi & Mathura Couches an Unfeigned Appeal to Islamo-Leftist Ecosystem. Will They Seize the Moment?

Yogi Adityanath is perhaps the first front-ranking BJP functionary from the saffron fold to have officially endorsed Hindu claims over the two...

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Opinion | BJP’s Dalliance with Jayant Chaudhary’s RLD is About A Lot More Than Just Electoral Gain

There’s talk that the INDIA bloc is about to be jolted another time. After Nitish Kumar, in Uttar Pradesh, Rashtriya Lok Dal’s (RLD) chief Jayant...

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Opinion | PM Modi’s Budget Message: NDA Has Performed, Doesn’t Need Crutch of Populist Sops to Win 2024

At the end of 60 minutes, there were no tax breaks – the go-to unction applied by finance ministers to massage the aam voter. There were no...

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Opinion | Nitish’s Exit May Lead Voters to Conclude That INDIA Bloc is Not Stable to be Able

For a while now, we were being told that Bharat needs the INDIA bloc. And that it provides an important antidote to the alleged miasma of Moditva. A...

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Opinion | Determining The Hindu Character of Gyanvapi Mosque Will Be Easy. But, Thanks to The Left, Reclaiming It Won’t Be

Is the bubble of mendacity about to burst? The Varanasi District Court has taken a giant leap of faith. It has decided to make the Archaeological...

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Opinion | Lepakshi to Rameswaram: Does South’s ‘Dakshina’ to Lord Ram Jolts Dravidian Ploy to Balkanise Dharma?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was filmed singing the mellifluous ‘Shri Ram Jai Ram’ bhajan in the precincts of the imposing Veerbhadra temple in...

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OPINION | Pran Pratishtha Boycott: Why Are Some Deliberately Overlooking the ‘Somnath Precedent’?

For days altogether, it has been drilled into us (the pious and the not-so-devout) that the Pran Pratishtha of the Ram Lalla idol in the garbhagriha...

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Opinion | Lord Ram is the Essence of Bharat. Congress Boycott of Pran Pratishtha Places it on Wrong Side of Our Civilisational History

The Congress party has decided to boycott the much-vaunted Pran Pratishtha ceremony on January 22. The Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust had...

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OPINION | Is there Any Denying that Modi-Al Nahyan Roadshow is a Resounding Stamp for NDA’s Commitment to ‘Sabka Saath’?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ) Al Nahyan coursing down the roads of Ahmedabad in an unprecedented show of...

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Opinion | India’s ‘Left-Liberal’ Ecosystem is Being Churlish; Indian Consumer Activism Over Maldives Not Just Conscientious But Much Needed

Who could have thought it? PM Modi’s decision to spend a morning on the powdery white sands of Lakshadweep or then glide gracefully over its coral...

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OPINION | 6 Reasons Why the Left’s Attempt to Stigmatise Ram Lalla’s Consecration Doesn’t Add Up

When it comes to the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, nothing matters to the Left. Not the tide of evidence, the weight of history or even the stamp of the...

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There’s A Message in The Suspension Spree. Is The Opposition Ready for It?

They could well set up a parallel parliament. 143 opposition Members of Parliament have been suspended over the past week ever since the Lok Sabha was...

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Opinion | Mathura Survey: Proof is Hiding in Plain Sight Yet Hindus Must Prove Their Hinduness

The Allahabad High Court has ordered a survey of the entire plot atop which towers the Shahi Idgah Mosque. The survey, a much-appreciated procedural...

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OPINION | SC Verdict on Article 370 Is the First Big Blow To The Politics of Minority Appeasement

The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the Modi government’s decision to scrap Article 370 in August 2019. Article 370 was contentious because it...

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Mahua Has Been Burned at The Stake. But A Latter Day Joan Of Arc She Is Not

TMC firebrand leader Mahua Moitra has been expelled from the Lok Sabha. A report prepared by the Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha concluded that...

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OPINION | Voter as Villain: The Unbearable Odium of The Ecosystem’s ‘Cowbelt’ Slander

So it has begun. The BJP’s fantastic showing in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, it’s growth in both Telangana and Mizoram has triggered a...

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OPINION | Form is Temporary, Political Pedigree Is Permanent: Here Are 5 Myths Modi Has Dispelled

We were all prepared for the humbling of the BJP. The Congress, influential pundits and even the Exit polls had predicted an insipid BJP performance...

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OPINION | The Triumph Of Diversity In Unity

It was hard not to feel a lump in one’s throat when seeing the relieved, smiling faces of the 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mine...

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Rajouri Terror Rampage: Will The Rights Lobby Hold Up “Not In My Name” Posters To Shame Pakistan-Sponsored Islamists?

Five good men that could have chosen to do anything with lives, chose instead to serve their country and when that wasn’t enough, chose to sacrifice...

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Blaming Islamophobia for Wilders’s Win in The Netherlands is Lazy. The Answer Lies Elsewhere

Anti-Islamism populist leader Geert Wilders has registered a shock victory in the Dutch general elections. News reports unanimously say that after 25...

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Opinion | Yogi Sarkar Is Right. The Sale of 'Shariah-Compliant' Product Stamps Have No Place in A Secular Democracy

The Uttar Pradesh government has banned the sale of “halal-certified” products. Apparently, cases have come to the state police’s notice where...

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Opinion | Beyond Sexism, Abdul's Vile Jibe at Aishwarya Captures Pak’s Descent into Islamism. How Long Will Indian Doves Ignore?

Retired Pakistan cricketer Abdul Razzaq dragged Bollywood superstar and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan into a discussion on Pakistan’s...

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Opinion | Madras HC Unmasks I.N.D.I Bloc’s Bias Against Sanatana Dharma

A few weeks ago, DMK scion Udhayanidhi Stalin submitted a plea before the Madras High Court. The Chief Minister’s son was hoping to refute the...

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OPINION | There Is A Constituency in India for A Pro-Hamas Stance. This Should Worry Us

Who in a secular democracy would be prepared to risk a backlash by describing a militia of xenophobes as freedom fighters? Very few, one imagines,...

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Opinion | Explained: The Problem With Platforming Ex-Hamas Chief Meshaal at a Rally in Kerala

It’s the kind of brazen invitation to bigotry that one has come to associate with our chronically bilious neighbour Pakistan. Every so often, some...

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OPINION | India Could Not Have Voted to Weaponise Palestinian Suffering to Guilt ‘Victim’ Israel

The UN General Assembly on Friday voted on a Jordan-sponsored resolution titled ‘Protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian...

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OPINION | Blinken Is Right; Hindus And Jews Are Victims of The Same Islamist Irredentism

The war between Israel and Hamas may appear as though it is far removed from our reality. After all, the bloody settling of scores is taking place...

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OPINION: Look Beyond the Stilettos and Gucci Bag. Allegations Against Mahua Moitra Cast a Shadow Over The Holiest Pact In A Democracy

It is a profound travesty that the Mahua Moitra story is thus far exciting interest for all the wrong reasons. But then who can blame the public. Who...

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OPINION | Gaza Hospital Bombing Fallout: Palestinians Must Reject Hamas Before Hamas Turns Them into Props for Propaganda

The world woke up to searing images of human suffering and cruelty today. The grotesque aftermath of a missile strike. Hundreds of bodies charred...

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OPINION | The Ongoing Morally Jaundiced 'Woke Intifada' Is Born Out Of 'Israelophobia'. PERIOD.

Babies burnt alive. Some shot point black in their cradles in the dead hours of one of the darkest nights in Israel’s history. Countless other...

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OPINION | We’ve Got It All Wrong. Israel Is the Victim of Intolerance Here Not Hamas Voting Palestinians

Thousands of rockets peppered several locations across Israel on one of the most consequential Jewish holidays. As the rockets exploded and mayhem...

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Opinion | Does Rahul Gandhi’s Manthan on Hinduism Normalise Hindumisia?

Rahul Gandhi has penned a metaphorical essay on his understanding of the essence of Sanatan Dharma. As metaphors go, it is sufficiently esoteric and,...

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Opinion | The Indian Cricket Team Is A Synthesis of Bharat's Pluralism; The Less Said The Better about Pakistan's World Cup Squad

They are here. Pakistan’s one-day international cricket world cup team has arrived to notch up a “victory for Islam” against Rohit Sharma’s...

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OPINION | Rahul Won’t Fight Owaisi. A Contest Will Expose Hollowness of Cong’s 'Bharat Jodo' Pitch

Very few politicians in India can match Hyderabad MP and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Assaduddin Owaisi when he gets on to his...

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Opinion | Mirwaiz’s Release is an Act of Good Faith. Will He Reciprocate by Denouncing Pak-Sponsored Terror?

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq’s sudden appearance at Srinagar’s Jama Masjid after a hiatus of four years marks the beginning of a new chapter in...

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