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July 20, 2015 23:31 IST

We now have a crackdown we don’t see. It’s less ominous, but equally insidious.

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June 25, 2015 09:40 IST

It would not be necessary for an autocratic government to take any extra-constitutional measures today, so pro-establishment has the media become.

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June 25, 2015 00:00 IST

While ‘Lalitgate’ flares, prices in Parliament canteen raise heckles.

June 25, 2015 10:08 IST

Emergency regime tried to intimidate ‘The Indian Express’ and failed, writes a special correspondent with the paper, 1975-78.

June 25, 2015 00:00 IST

China’s direct support to Pakistan at the UN, to save Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, is shocking.

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June 24, 2015 00:00 IST

It is a warning India must heed.

June 24, 2015 13:05 IST

The Emergency’s enduring legacy is the cult of the supreme politician: bigger than party, government, nation.

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June 23, 2015 06:28 IST

They allow a state to craft its signals carefully. India should take a leaf from China’s book.

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June 23, 2015 00:07 IST

PM Modi should set an example by asking all BJP politicians to resign from the BCCI and its affiliated bodies

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June 22, 2015 00:27 IST

Policymakers needn’t throw everything they’ve learned out of the window — usually, when prices go up, people demand less of a product; we’re not arguing with that.

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June 22, 2015 10:57 IST

Maggi became a huge hit when time became a scarce commodity in urban India.

June 22, 2015 05:26 IST

When Nek Chand passed away a few days ago, a pall of sadness descended upon the city to which he had left a great gift: a piece of his poetic imagination.

June 22, 2015 00:28 IST

In such a scenario, when fundamental civil liberty stands threatened by extreme rightwing groups, the possibility of another Emergency cannot be ruled out.

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June 21, 2015 00:00 IST

Narendra Modi may well echo Macmillan’s words after what has happened in the week preceding today’s Yoga Day.

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June 21, 2015 00:00 IST

In his licence application, Tomar attached only his school leaving certificate, and not his ‘fake’ college degree.

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June 21, 2015 00:00 IST

The NITI Aayog has so far functioned in slow motion and this is most unfortunate.

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June 21, 2015 00:00 IST

Horror of racist massacre was compounded by the fact that the victims were killed while at prayer.

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June 21, 2015 11:57 IST

Every finance minister is allowed one budget to make mistakes and learn on the job!

June 20, 2015 00:00 IST

When there are so few seats and so many candidates, the authorities conducting the AIPMT ought to weed out all possibilities of cheating.

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June 20, 2015 00:00 IST

Using Zizekian logic to read the ongoing Sun TV crisis.

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June 20, 2015 00:00 IST

Slum dwellers are being written out of Mumbai’s dockyard redevelopment

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June 20, 2015 00:00 IST

I won’t have the government dictate my fitness choices, especially if they are linked to religion, nationalism and patriotism

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June 19, 2015 02:43 IST

Inquilab, in its editorial writes: “The support extended by a senior minister to Lalit Modi, despite the grave charges against him is seriously questionable in itself.

June 19, 2015 00:00 IST

Right to life enshrined in Article 21 of the Constitution draws on Magna Carta.

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June 19, 2015 00:00 IST

A.Q. Khan has more to say about pre-prayer rituals of cleanliness than about science.

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