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Tavleen Singh writes: Indians who are patriotic rarely feel need to say they are
November 02, 2025 7:40 am
The most patriotic thing that can be done for our beloved motherland is for us to all participate in Swachh Bharat 2.0 and make our cities and villages look less filthy than they currently do.
Tavleen Singh writes: Real patriotism versus false nationalism
January 26, 2025 10:30 pm
It is time for our political leaders to be held to account for the damage they have done and to remind them that spreading poison may win a few elections, but it is destroying India.
Brutalised children of Gaza: Killing the innocent — and our innocence
November 15, 2023 5:03 pm
They are seen sitting beside dead parents, rummaging in the debris of their homes and completely unprotected from the weapons that will kill them quickly or slowly or disable them for life. The legal systems that should protect their rights have collapsed, the families within which they are nurtured have been killed.
Janaki Nair writes: CM Siddaramaiah and the constitutional patriotism of the Karnataka model
October 07, 2023 8:44 am
In consulting all parties over the Cauvery Water Sharing dispute, in placing on hold the needlessly hasty and unthought adoption of the New Education Policy, and in removing the more egregious alterations to school textbooks, the government may be cautiously crafting an alternative strategy for change
Amid Manipur violence, this Independence Day, a question for Indians: What is patriotism?
August 17, 2023 5:22 pm
Patriots don’t hate, they also don’t stand by as an audience while people are being degraded and hurt. That’s what Gandhiji taught Sarojini Naidu — and all of us
Patriotism is the only way to keep India united, says Karnataka CM Bommai in Pune
August 14, 2022 10:46 am
Bommai launched the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign at the Amanora Township in Hadapsar area in Pune on Saturday in the presence of Aniruddha Deshpande, managing director, City Corporation Limited (CCL), C T Ravi, member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly, Aditya Deshpande and Vivek Kulkarni from CCL.
Independence Day 2021: Delhi schools to have ‘Deshbhakti’ lessons soon, academicians divided on need of separate curriculum
August 15, 2021 10:28 am
From freedom struggles to fundamental rights and duties, the curriculum aims to cover all aspects of civic behaviour.
Bani Abidi: ‘One gets fatigued in the face of rampant patriotism’
August 16, 2020 11:55 am
Nominated for the prestigious Prize of the Böttcherstraße, the Pakistani artist on the solidarity of oral history
Those rejecting diversity now being called patriots: Sonia Gandhi
April 07, 2019 6:11 am
Speaking at an event in New Delhi, Gandhi said it was a matter of concern that the country’s “soul was being crushed as part of a well-thought-out conspiracy”.
Whose Song Is It Anyway?
January 07, 2019 1:56 pm
Vande Mataram, the national song, has been a bone of contention for decades now. A battle cry for Indian independence, it compares certain qualities of the motherland with that of Goddess Durga and Lakshmi in the later paragraphs.
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