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We live in the midst of two state systems

23.01.2025 10

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Suhas Palshikar

Is the BJP truly a dominant party?

Limits of the party’s electoral successes, the narrowness of its voter umbrella, resorting to high-handed tactics and suspicion of dissent point to...

03.01.2025 2

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Suhas Palshikar

What could have been a moment of introspection transformed into theatrical exchanges in Parliament

The small difference is that while Congress argued that the Constitution was being violated today, for the ruling party, the violations of...

19.12.2024 2

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Suhas Palshikar

What could have been a moment of introspection transformed into theatrical exchanges in Parliament

The small difference is that while Congress argued that the Constitution was being violated today, for the ruling party, the violations of...

19.12.2024 9

Indian Express

Suhas Palshikar

The Third Edit: A new history of the human race, one footprint at a time

Kenya’s findings can turn a page in our study of human evolution and ask an imperative question - which ‘fittest’ species survived?

30.11.2024 8

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Express view: An IFF(I) endeavor: The film festival needs to do better

Film festivals are places where creative minds and their committed audiences come together. IFFI must do more to do both justice

30.11.2024 1

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Suhas Palshikar

Maharashtra is set to be a BJP party-society

Victory of BJP, rout of its opponents, ensures that the deeper shift that slowed down after 2014 will pick up speed

29.11.2024 3

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Maharashtra, Jharkhand election results: How BJP regained the upper hand

Assembly election results in Maharashtra, and even in Jharkhand – where it lost but has likely retained its 2019 vote share — show how the BJP...

23.11.2024 2

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The Third Edit: How Artificial Intelligence can play 'the role of a lifetime' in film

Lionsgate studios has announced a partnership with an AI company to train a new model on its archives - a need to rethink our turbulent...

19.11.2024 2

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Suhas Palshikar

Express View on Kailash Gahlot’s exit: AAP must ask itself: What do we stand for?

Gahlot’s move to BJP alludes to the bigger ideological confusion that faces the party before the Delhi elections. It has lost the moral heft...

19.11.2024 1

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Express View: Manipur CM Biren Singh must go

In withdrawing support to Manipur government, Conrad Sangma has flagged loss of people’s trust. Centre must take a decision it should have taken...

19.11.2024 1

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Suhas Palshikar

SC verdict marks the extraordinariness of the current moment of bulldozer governance

Democracy is a delicate balance among foundational norms, procedural restraints and popular wishes. Such an idea of democracy is a hindrance to...

18.11.2024 20

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With Hindutva the only game in town, it can now declare its version of Hinduism as the official one

As RSS has completed a hundred years of existence, there will surely be multiple analyses of the organisation and its achievements. In view of its...

23.10.2024 30

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Women para- athletes’ successes are due to mainstreaming of disabled sports

Within the span of three Paralympic Games — in eight years — Indian women para-athletes have taken the tally of medals from one to 11 female...

12.09.2024 50

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The absorption of Mandal politics by BJP and Congress has been accompanied by the reductionist approach that numerical representation is an adequate response to a more complicated social reality of injustice

The recent ruling of the Supreme Court allowing states to sub-classify SCs and STs for the purpose of preferential treatment in reservation has...

14.08.2024 1

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Suhas Palshikar

There is no doubt that this decision will make only a nominal difference because civil servants sympathising with RSS have been aplenty

It is a matter of some surprise that a government with most of its members being proud members of the RSS took 10 years to lift the ban on...

03.08.2024 2

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Suhas Palshikar