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Siddharth Varadarajan

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Justice Chandrachud Should Not Blame God for His Own Awful Ayodhya Judgment

“Very often we have cases (to adjudicate) but we don’t arrive at a solution,” he said. “Something similar happened during the Ayodhya (Ram...

22.10.2024 70

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Siddharth Varadarajan

Canada’s Accusations Against Modi Government, Amit Shah: What We Know, What We Don’t Know

In a set of charges that are surely unprecedented in the history of diplomatic relations between friendly democratic countries, Canada has accused...

16.10.2024 10

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Siddharth Varadarajan

Remembering A.G. Noorani: Scholar, Jurist and Conscience Keeper of the Nation

Abdul Ghafoor Noorani, scholar and jurist – known to readers of his brilliant columns and books over an astonishing seven decades as A.G. Noorani...

29.08.2024 10

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People Power in Bangladesh: What Happens Next? Are the Fears Being Expressed in India Justified?

The mass protest in Bangladesh has brought an end to the authoritarian government of Sheikh Hasina, but it is not clear what happens next. The army...

07.08.2024 7

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Siddharth Varadarajan

Perhaps Judges Need No Longer Wait for Retirement In Order to Join the RSS

Since the National Democratic Alliance government is led by someone who is from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and spent his formative political life...

27.07.2024 30

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Why Israel Must Be Banned from the Paris Olympics

The Olympics get underway in Paris shortly and there is growing consternation in France and around the world at the impending participation of Israel...

25.07.2024 10

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Modi Stands Defeated But He’s Not Giving Up His Destructive Plan for a Thousand Year Raj

Voters in India have done for Indian democracy what the country’s Election Commission and judiciary failed to do: discipline and rebuke Prime...

06.06.2024 20

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Fact Check: Modi Falsely Claims Congress Manifesto Promises 'Quota for Muslims in Govt Tenders'

New Delhi: Addressing a rally in Surendranagar, Gujarat, on May 2, Prime Minister Narendra Modi repeated the anti-Muslim messaging that has become the...

03.05.2024 50

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Modi's Pannun Plot Has Made India Hostage to US Pressure

Is India a banana republic or some sort of seriously dysfunctional state where a senior officer working for the country’s top intelligence agency...

01.05.2024 30

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Modi-Backed Letter By 600 Lawyers: 'Shoe Might Well Fit Other Foot,' Say Lawyers, Ex-Judges

India’s legal fraternity continues to remain perturbed by the unusual open letter written by 600 lawyers – including Harish Salve and other...

05.04.2024 10

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Whatever Yarn the Modi Government May Spin on the Pannun Plot, There’ll Be No Happy Ending

Can India’s security be entrusted to a government which allows rogue operatives within its intelligence agencies to plan and execute clandestine...

22.03.2024 30

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Siddharth Varadarajan

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