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Modi’s Comment on Congress Manifesto Aims to Polarise Electorate

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement at a rally in Ajmer that the Congress manifesto for the 2024 general elections “has the imprint of the...

11.04.2024 10

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Indira's Post-Emergency Was More Benign than Modi's Undeclared Emergency

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed an Emergency in 1975 and incarcerated opposition leaders. In 1977, she lifted the emergency and released her...

28.03.2024 40

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Gandhi’s Views on Political Funding Foreshadowed Crony Capitalism in New India

An enormous amount of money was amassed from companies through electoral bonds, irrespective of whether they were profitable or incurring losses,...

17.03.2024 20

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Resignations of Two Election Commissioners Under Modi Regime Reflect ECI’s Decline

The resignation of election commissioner (EC) Arun Goel on March 9, just a few days before the announcement of the general elections, is unprecedented...

13.03.2024 20

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How Gandhi and Ambedkar’s Vision Gets Demolished by Suppressing Farmers’ Movement

“If the legislature proves itself to be incapable of safeguarding kisans’ interests they will of course always have the sovereign remedy of civil...

23.02.2024 4

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Gandhi’s ‘Doctrine of Frightfulness’ Charge Against the British is Just as Relevant for India Today

After  the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919, Mahatma Gandhi wrote that the British regime perpetuated itself by employing the doctrine of...

15.02.2024 6

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BJP Has Made the Bharat Ratna an Electoral Tool – and Nothing Else

The Narendra Modi regime’s decision to confer the Bharat Ratna on L.K. Advani, a Hindutva icon, a few weeks after it announced the same honour...

07.02.2024 50

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Gandhi’s Ram Rajya Was No Hindu Raj 

There has been a lot of talk about Ram Rajya following the consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya even as the slogan ‘Jai Shri Ram’ is being...

01.02.2024 30

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Theologically Determined Politics Weakens Representative Government

The manner in which theology is being invoked in Ram temple’s consecration in Ayodhya and the deep association of the Indian state with it has been...

21.01.2024 10

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A Lesson on Temples from Swami Vivekananda

It is a coincidence that the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda was celebrated on January 12 when there is massive publicity campaign launched by...

15.01.2024 50

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Gandhi, Vivekananda, Tagore, and Temple Consecration

This piece was first published on  The India Cable  – a premium newsletter from The Wire & Galileo Ideas – and has been republished here. To...

10.01.2024 30

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Truckers' Strike Exposed How Hollow a Law Passed Without Consultation Is

The provision of harsh penalty prescribed in Section 106 (2) of the recently enacted Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for offences committed in...

08.01.2024 20

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The Kerala Governor is Violating the Sanctity of His Own Post By Withholding Assent for Bills

After sitting on eight Bills passed by the Kerala assembly for several months – in some cases for over two years – Kerala governor Arif Mohammed...

28.12.2023 6

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Congress's 'Donate for Desh' Recalls the Discomfort with Corporate Funding

In his 2019 book Business and Politics in India, Christophe Jaffrelot said that Narendra Modi is perhaps the first Prime Minister to be anointed by...

20.12.2023 10

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Modi's BJP Has Confirmed Nehru's Worries About the Jana Sangh's Divisive Plans for Kashmir

While speaking in Calcutta (now Kolkata) on January 1, 1952, India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru stated that Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)’s...

13.12.2023 8

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A Resurgent Congress in Telangana and the Challenges for BRS and BJP

The Congress party, with 22 MLAs out of 199 seats in the Telangana state assembly and vote share of 22%, stood in sharp contrast to the Bharat Rashtra...

30.11.2023 2

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In Rajasthan, a Contest Between 'Dharma' and 'Raj Dharma'

Rajasthan, where the election is scheduled to take place for the state assembly on November 25 is witnessing the Bharatiya Janata Party employ Prime...

23.11.2023 5

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Twenty Years Before Independence, Nehru Identified Present Threats to National Security

Former National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon while delivering a keynote address in Delhi’s India International Centre on Wednesday at the...

27.10.2023 10

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Rooting for Israel, Not a Good Word About Palestine: Modi Is Upending Indian Foreign Policy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s support for Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country is at war with Hamas following the...

13.10.2023 9

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We Could Do With Putting on Gandhi's Glasses – Now Reduced to a Swachh Bharat Logo

As the nation celebrates the 154th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi today, it is painful to discern a pattern – rather, an obsession – of the...

02.10.2023 10

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Remembering 9/11 Speech of Swami Vivekananda That Warned Us of the Dangers Posed by Fanaticism

Today is 9/11, 2023. Normally, we remember 9/11 for the terrorist attack on America in 2001 by some fanatics who destroyed Twin Towers in New York and...

11.09.2023 2

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