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By Haresh Jagtiani, Suprabh Jain |
It is easy to cynically dismiss the monumental thousand-page unanimous judgment of the Supreme Court on the Ram Mandir…
By Ajit Ranade |
On the eve of the formation of the Indian republic, Dr.Ambedkar made a prophetic statement. This was part of his…
By Aseem Shrivastava |
I read Gandhiji’s Hind Swaraj when I was 34. I should have read it when I was 17. But at that impressionable age, given…
By Ganesh N Devy |
The yawning gap between the mischievous claims and verified data is exactly as it was in the case of ‘black’ money…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
If the changes to article 370 of the Constitution of India were meant “to bring J&K truly into India's fold”,…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is now over 20 days and the average citizen of the nation’s most sensitive border State, Jammu & Kashmir,…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
With Jammu and Kashmir leaders behind bars, the people locked up in their houses, schools, colleges, institutions…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Many years ago, a plainclothes police officer known as an “encounter specialist”, that uniquely Indian term that has…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It will be sometime before the depth of Narendra Modi’s electoral sweep sinks in and a much longer time before the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There are a host of considerations that rule, and not all of them are easily fathomed by city folk who tend to prefer…
By Aseem Shrivastava , Aryaman Jain |
The rise of Hindutva in a country that was thought to be largely secular has flummoxed many. Whatever the outcome of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Even for those who might have held Rajiv Gandhi culpable in the mass of allegations around the Bofors gun, his death…