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By Ajaz Ashraf The desire to play the role of elderly statesman surfaces in Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani every time he feels slighted or thinks…

By Bilal Ahmad Dar Live stock is an important sector in agriculture. It represents 60 per cent of agricultural value added and contributes 11 per cent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).…

By Bhushan Parimoo It appears that the thaw has just set in within the deliverance apparatus of the Social Forestry. Very minute and feeble softening yet gives sign of hope. A matter…

By Shiv Visvanathan Manifestos are generally acts of defiance and hope, which combine wishful thinking with critique. Manifestos have created world views and lived on as political and literary classics. The Congress…

By Khaled Ahmed Pakistan protested to India when the alleged destroyers of the 2007 Samjhauta Express train — which killed 42 Pakistanis going home after visiting India — were allowed to walk…

By ASHUTOSH Machiavelli was not a great thinker. He was not in the same league as Plato, Aristotle, Karl Marx, Immanuel Kant or Shankaracharya. He was not a man for epistemology. He…

By Ranjona Banerji As you read through this book, you realise just how overdue it is. We talk a lot in India, and about several uncomfortable issues these days, not just cricket…

By NAMRATA SRIVASTAVA Maharishi Valmiki’s Ramayana has accounted for some of the most famous works of literature over the centuries. There are countless retellings, translations, and reworkings of the Ramayana’s captivating story,…

By Seema Mustafa The Congress in its election manifesto has spoken of the need to review the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. It has not said much more than this bare statement,…

By Ajai Sahni Given a succession of judgments in cases of Hindutva terrorism, the Samjhauta Express judgment could surprise only the incurably naïve. At present, it’s not possible to evaluate the evidence…