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Hey Ram! Bapu must carry cross for Prodigal Son’s Parivar
October 24, 2021, 12:30 PM IST
The diatribe by RSS and BJP leaders to place the Father of the Nation on the same pedestal as the one accused of being a part of the conspiracy to assassinate him is a sign…
October 24, 2021, 12:30 PM IST
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TIME’s warp: Modi a four letter word for India
October 4, 2021, 5:53 PM IST
Pradhan Sevak Narendra Modi has once again made it to the Time 100 Most Influential list. Chests in Nagpur would be swelling beyond 56″ with pride after reading the reasons mentioned by the profile writer,…
October 4, 2021, 5:53 PM IST
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Parivar Pangs: India pays for talent crunch at Shakhas
September 15, 2021, 11:30 PM IST
Betting on the wrong horse can spell ruin especially if you mistaken an ungulate from Rann of Kutch for an Arabian steed. India is learning this lesson the hard way as it was enchanted by…
September 15, 2021, 11:30 PM IST
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Democracy’s corrective mechanisms face stress test in Modi’s New India
July 29, 2021, 5:13 PM IST
A debate riling Americans these days is whether Donald Trump’s reign weakened the two most important pillars of democracy – sanctity of the law and the freedom of the press. This is even more relevant…
July 29, 2021, 5:13 PM IST
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Democracy & the law unto himself
July 10, 2021, 10:11 AM IST
When Mahatma Gandhi and Co rooted for Universal Franchise they not only recognised the contribution of all Indians irrespective of education, social and financial status, sex and caste to the freedom struggle but also made…
July 10, 2021, 10:11 AM IST
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Democracy in lockdown
June 30, 2021, 4:48 PM IST
Sama, dama, dand, bhed have been touted as tricks of the trade to subdue an enemy from time immemorial. In New India, enemies of democracy are shamelessly and ruthlessly using these tools to dismantle the…
June 30, 2021, 4:48 PM IST
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Danger to Indian democracy
June 15, 2021, 1:23 PM IST
The Constitution is like the fifth Veda for Indians. Luckily, instead of being a rigid book it has turned out to be as flexible as the Sanatan Dharma, changing with times and open to more…
June 15, 2021, 1:23 PM IST
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C-ing through Pradhan Quack’s charade
April 19, 2021, 2:59 PM IST
It’s a double whammy for Mother India. First, the misdiagnoses five diseases aka 5Cs – corruption, casteism, communalism, cronyism and criminalism – as the reason for Indian democracy being on the ventilator. Then his alter…
April 19, 2021, 2:59 PM IST
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Khela Shesh: Didi just another sacrifice in Modi’s Ashwamedha
April 9, 2021, 4:57 PM IST
Life has come a full circle for Mamata Banerjee. She was saved from political oblivion by the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee but today a BJP prime minister is out to annihilate her politically….
April 9, 2021, 4:57 PM IST
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Bauddhik Kshatriya: Modi & Parivar put cart before horse
March 9, 2021, 11:25 PM IST
The pen is mightier than the sword has now got an Indian interpretation where students and men of letters are being equated with fighters. Pradhan Pracharak Narendra Modi has asked the students to be “Warriors”…
March 9, 2021, 11:25 PM IST
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Farmers protest: BJP’s toolkit to take India in wrong Disha
February 17, 2021, 9:34 PM IST
The arrest of Disha points to the disha (direction) in which the Modi government and the society is moving. Activists like her are collateral damage in Modi government’s war on farmers to defend its pro-cronies…
February 17, 2021, 9:34 PM IST
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US gets vaccine against Corona but not Trumpism
January 13, 2021, 3:51 PM IST
If 2020 will be remembered as the year of Corona, 2021 will be etched in history as the year when Donald Trump supporters finally exposed the Ugly American before the world. The US of A…
January 13, 2021, 3:51 PM IST
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Farmers protest: Jai pradhan, hai kisan
December 31, 2020, 3:44 PM IST
The Pradhan Darner is hopelessly busy trying to do the “patchwork” on the fabric of farmers’ hurt and damaged psyche laid asunder by his cunning and pro-capitalist Farm laws. He has a reputation to protect….
December 31, 2020, 3:44 PM IST
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New India’s Sarkari Diwali, Intellectual Diwala
November 17, 2020, 8:29 PM IST
Diwali is touted as the celebration of Lord Ram’s return to Ayodhya after completing fourteen years in exile after vanquishing Ravan but worshipping the Goddess of wealth Lakshmi along with Lord Ganesh is the highlight…
November 17, 2020, 8:29 PM IST
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US and them: One rabble-rouser down, friend to go
November 10, 2020, 4:34 PM IST
Another Modi bet has fallen flat. This time across the seven seas Abki baar there will no Trump Sarkar. Modi has already reconciled to this fact and has initiated damage control by posting pictures with…
November 10, 2020, 4:34 PM IST
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Modi is New India’s gold standard
November 4, 2020, 11:11 PM IST
The Bihar elections have once again made New India realise how blessed it is to have Narendra Modi as the Pradhan Sevak. He has succeeded in doing in 70 months what never happened in 70…
November 4, 2020, 11:11 PM IST
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Shaheen Bagh dadis are new India’s Gandhivadis
October 10, 2020, 10:45 AM IST
In the judgement on Shaheen Bagh protest, the Supreme Court has paid a back-handed compliment inadvertently or maybe knowingly, to the protesters: “Can’t resort to colonial time protest means.” By implication, the Supreme Court has…
October 10, 2020, 10:45 AM IST
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Hathras is Vibhatsa Ras lacking Karuna Ras
October 7, 2020, 6:47 PM IST
The Hathras rape case has in one stroke undone the months of hard work put in by the Modi government to keep the public’s attention away from the governance failures of BJP governments in New…
October 7, 2020, 6:47 PM IST
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Temple run: New India Parivar drops Kashi-Mathura?
September 21, 2020, 9:57 PM IST
Is it a change of heart or a change of strategy? A generation of religious bigots raised on the ‘Ayodhya to sirf jhanki hai, Kashi, Mathura baaki hai’ slogan suddenly finds itself disowned by the…
September 21, 2020, 9:57 PM IST
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India can survive Covid-19 not Modinomics
September 4, 2020, 3:16 PM IST
People elect the government they want. The nightmare for the Indian economy started in2014 when the voters were scammed by the seller of the Achhe Din Aanewale Hain dream. The assault had started earlier but…
September 4, 2020, 3:16 PM IST
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