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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…

Rights Violation is a Grave Concern

What do you do about such a reality? Taking righteous and moral positions serves nobody’s cause. Such positions only bolster one kind of politics against another and are inherently selective. Because the…
February 27, 2018

Shooting from the lip

We have been witness to a strange spectacle this month, a bewildering reversal of roles. The head of India’s biggest right-wing ideological formation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, which seeks to promote Hindutva…
February 27, 2018

Media on Trial

Much is said, and rightly so, about the excesses of the press. Despite press codes and press laws, partisan journalism continues to rule with an untrammelled pen. The press, enjoys the widest…
February 27, 2018

The lure of the populists

We are living in an era of populism, but populism is not easy to define. It is not an ideology. It is not, for instance, either right or left wing. But it…
February 27, 2018

Using our national flag to defend a rapist

In India, defacing, disfiguring and insulting our national flag is a criminal offence; the punishment includes a jail sentence or a fine or both. Of late, we police our patriotism and codify…
February 25, 2018

Disqualification

IT is unfortunate that a question concerning the probity of public life should have become entangled in the cold war which the Narendra Modi government has launched against all non-BJP-ruled governments —…
February 25, 2018

AFGHANISTAN FROM THE HEART, NOT THE MIND

What would make an eye specialist, Professor M. Yaseen Khan Durrani, look at Afghanistan and decide to compose a book on Afghan history? Perhaps it is his nostalgia, Pashtun identity or Durrani…
February 25, 2018
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