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By Ashok V. Desai Our government invited heads of Southeast Asian states to the last Republic Day parade; none of them looked thrilled at the honour. India should look for more intelligent

By Tariq Hhasan The threat by some Kashmiri student leaders studying at the Aligarh Muslim University to leave the University en masse on October 17 if the local authorities continue to harass

By Jawed Naqvi Looking at the challenges women face at their place of work or even at home in India or Pakistan, among other venues, I wondered how Prof Kailas Nath Kaul

By Michael Krepon The Trump administration’s diplomatic strategy toward South Asia, as enumerated in its December 2017 National Security Strategy, places a high priority in seeking “a Pakistan that is not engaged

By D.K. Singh When Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed office in May 2014, he kept thinking that he was new to Delhi and people believed he would take a year or two

By Rizwan Ahmad In August 2018, India’s Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) government renamed the historic Mughalsarai Junction Railway Station in the state of Uttar Pradesh after the right-wing Hindu ideologue

By Shiv Visvanathan Elections are usually party games which a democracy conducts to keep a system dynamic. But the election of 2019 is different and the nature of the difference lies in

By Maneesh Chhibber Since 1989, the first time I was old enough to understand the importance of elections in a democracy, elections in Jammu and Kashmir have intrigued me. I belong to

By Kumar Ketkar Why do politicians defect to rival parties? The season of defections has begun with assembly elections in five states scheduled to be held in just a few weeks. A

By Sudhanshu Ranjan The Titli of #MeToo has reached India with a bang, claiming several wickets. Every day some woman is coming out with new allegations against some celebrity that she was