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By Liaquath Mirza Come October the ‘cleanliness fever’ grips our polity. Mahathma’s birthday is now swatchtha abhiyan day. Mahatma is now the mascot for swatch Baharat initiative. His spectacles now adorn municipal…

By Abdul Sattar The arrogance that US President Donald Trump demonstrated during the UN General Assembly session last week underscores the need for a new global order where one power isn’t able…

By Tridip Suhrud Dissent in the air. With the arrest of activists, academics and conditional locks on the freedom of speech, India is struggling to define dissent. This was precisely the dilemma…

By Manini Chatterjee The Supreme Court delivered a flurry of verdicts last week, coinciding with the final working days of the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, who retires tomorrow. Four of…

By K C Singh At the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), India’s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi spoke on Saturday, September…

By Karan Thapar There’s no doubt India-Pakistan relations are accident-prone and when they go into a tailspin, they usually raise disturbing questions rather than provide meaningful answers. Yet, even by these standards,…

By Seema Mustafa Just a few days ago Congress President Rahul Gandhi interacted with a large audience of university teachers. And confirmed what has been evident for a while— a makeover that…

By Aftab Alam For some time Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is generally viewed by Muslims with skepticism because of its stridently anti-Muslim politics, has suddenly started projecting itself as savior of…

By Ramin Jahanbegloo As the world prepares to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary in 2019, opinions and views about his person and his non-violent technique of struggle remain deeply divided. For…

By Prof. K. N. Dhar Physical exuberance of Kashmir is as inebriating as its mental excellence. Herein, we find a happy compromise between the prowess of body and ingenuity of mind; to…