Opinion - Page 176

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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…

How Marx foresaw the 1857 revolt

The one to two years of involvement in revolutionary activities which Marx and Engels spent in Europe tested their patience. They had great hopes from the French and German revolutions of 1848…
June 29, 2018

Pakistan’s dependence syndrome

As Pakistan prepares for its next national election, we need to ask a few questions. How is it that a country strategically located, with a population of 210 million well-motivated people having…
June 29, 2018

Emergency anniversary:

The 43rd anniversary of the imposition of the Emergency has spawned two parallel narratives, both suffering from the drawback of exclusively linking the authoritarian tendency in India to the personality of the…
June 28, 2018

The New Kashmiri Militant

Who are the new Kashmiri militants? The answer can be found interestingly, not in the stone pelting incidents across the Valley but in the funerals of alleged militants that have steadily grown…
June 28, 2018

Listen to the voiceless

Most conversations about Kashmir focus on the tensions between India and Pakistan and the seemingly intransigent dispute between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. What is often neglected — and was highlighted by the…
June 28, 2018

The return of fear

The time is defined by fear, by different connected fears constantly fizzing and exploding like a series of electrical short-circuits. The main Engineer of Fear is the Supreme Leader from whom everything…
June 28, 2018

Emergency won’t be an issue in 2019

The Emergency of June 25, 1975-January 18, 1977 under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi serves the BJP as a useful stick to beat the Congress with, and BJP leaders rightly utilise the opportunity…
June 28, 2018

A song of hope in Pakistan

“There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutions to cut the knot rather than unravel…
June 28, 2018

Need to think about Kashmir in a new way

The BJP’s decision to pull the plug on its alliance with Mehbooba Mufti’s People’s Democratic Party in Jammu and Kashmir can be explained sociologically as a fatal dualism that had to come…
June 27, 2018
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