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March 25, 2024

PM Modi could swing Tesla to India

On March 15, the government announced a new scheme to promote investment in EVs. Any company willing to invest $500 million in a new manufacturing facility that begins production in three years…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort on the occasion of 72nd Independence Day, in New Delhi on Wednesday, August 15, 2018. Express Photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi

At Red Fort, PM Modi’s hope and fear

By Pratap Bhanu Mehta “Indeed it is a strange disposed time/ But men may construe things after their fashion/Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.” Somehow this admonition by Cicero to…
August 17, 2018

The death of a dictator

By Mahir Ali Working in a Dubai newsroom, one was accustomed to receiving bizarre phone calls on Thursday nights. It was the beginning of the weekend, and in the pre-Internet era there…
August 17, 2018

Social media as a spectator sport

By MukulKesavan Social media is a spectator sport. More precisely, it’s reality television without the cameras. While the people involved in tweeting or posting on Facebook or Instagramming might well be communicating…
August 14, 2018

The risk in Imran Khan’s Pakistan

By Ayesha Siddiqa Pakistan is on the verge of getting a new prime minister, the cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan. Many of the social media accounts linked with the Pakistan Army are presenting the…
August 14, 2018

Looking forward to another jumla

By Kumar Ketkar What trick or ‘jumla’ will NarendraModi employ in his final Independence Day speech of this term from the ramparts of the Red Fort? That’s the subject of discussions in…
August 14, 2018

Maldives snubs India

By Abdus Sattar Ghazali The Maldives has asked India to withdraw its military choppers and personnel posted in the island as the Indo-Maldives agreement has expired in June 2018. The Maldives’ ambassador…
August 14, 2018

Right-wing extremism on the Prowl

By Syed Ali Mujtaba The ugly face of Hindutva terrorism has once again come to limelight with the arrest of three persons in Maharashtra for conspiring to carry out “terror activities” in…
August 14, 2018

Islamic Pakistan versus Secular India

By RASHID AHMAD Pakistan was created, at least in public perception, in the name of Islam. But Islamic parties have never been the first choice of the people of Pakistan in elections.…
August 12, 2018

ELEGY FOR HUMANITY

By Adil Bhat The art of storytelling is an interface with reality that has the power to transform perceptions about people and places. Feroz Rather’s debut novel, The Night of Broken Glass,…
August 12, 2018
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