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By M J Aslam Dividing Islam between Liberal & Orthodox: No book of history or literature of any credence on Kashmirhas anywhere used the term “Kashmiriyat” in its references to socio-cultural values

By Akash Bisht Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, as the Bharatiya Janata Party pushes a nationalist narrative following the February 26 Indian Air Force strikes on Pakistan’s Balakot, several Opposition leaders

By Jawed Naqvi THE mad major portrayed in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove — a psychopathic American nationalist driven by an urge to bring the world to a sudden end with a nuclear

By Pravin Sawhney The Modi government might still win the war of perception within India, but India’s conventional deterrence has been compromised. Its war-fighting capabilities – pivoted on air power – have

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay A young man boarded the Shatabdi Express coach. After finding a suitcase on the luggage rack above the seat allotted to him, he provocatively questioned, “Whose is this?” When

By YOGENDRA YADAV Has Narendra Modi found his bramhastra to take on the mahagathbandhan? Will the 2019 Lok Sabha elections become all about the Pulwama and now the Balakot attacks? If you

By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr The latest India-Pakistan face-off started with the terrorist attack in Pulwama, which killed over 40 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on February 14, followed

By Meghnad Desai The Pulwama attack has been countered by the attack on the Jaish-e-Mohammad camps. As expected, escalation followed. But as of now, the crisis seems to be over. Of course,

By SALIL TRIPATHI Wars create heroes out of individuals who show great courage. But wars also create clowns who clothe themselves in patriotism, and strut and fret their hour upon the stage.

By Mukul Kesavan The ongoing reportage on the cross-border skirmishing this last week has been bewildering. The average news-consuming citizen could be forgiven for wondering if anything he thought he knew about