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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Fundamentalists, even as they create walls between communities, recognise that South Asia has a connected destiny: They bank on it to achieve their ends

Ramya Subramaniam writes: While the bench is making slow yet definitive progress with regard to women's representation, the Bar needs to do much more

M K Bhadrakumar writes: All signs point towards a major calibration of India’s foreign-policy compass in recent weeks driven by the theme of countering China and the ascendance of political Islam.

Christophe Jaffrelot writes: India does not figure prominently in the EU's Indo-Pacific strategy. The Chinese challenge might change that.

Having led India in the Chappell era, Rahul Dravid is not new to dressing room intrigue. Dravid the captain couldn’t flower fully, now is his chance to make up for that.

As households rebuild their balance-sheets, demand is unlikely to perk up materially. Weak household demand and low capacity utilisation, in turn, signal subdued private investment.

Delhi would hope that Islamabad takes India's invitation in the right spirit and is amenable to a dialogue on Afghanistan and regional security without prejudice to other contentious issues in bilateral relations.

Bhupender Yadav writes: The BJP government’s governance model is focused on ensuring social inclusion and social mobility of the most disadvantaged sections

Madan Sabnavis writes: Centre, state, miners and power companies must plan to ensure there is no mismatch in demand and supply of coal

Ishita Sengupta writes: Caregiving reminds you why you love them while constantly testing your love for them. It is affection shorn of any embellishment, brimming with concern and resentment

C Raja Mohan writes: The first meeting between foreign ministers of India, Israel, UAE and US suggests that Delhi is now ready to move from bilateral relations conducted in separate silos towards an integrated regional

Ashutosh Varshney writes: The politics of Hindu nationalists is threatening to create a Jim Crow India in BJP-ruled territories. What race was to the American South, ethnicised religion is to Hindu nationalists

Rajiv Tuli writes: For Gandhi, non-violence, satyagraha were essential. For Savarkar, the goal of complete and immediate independence was more important than the means

Partha Bhattacharyya writes: Coal India has been meeting the demand for coal, helping generate power at affordable tariffs.

The meeting condemned the state government for arresting Sikh student leaders on one pretext or the other. It demanded immediate and unconditional release of all arrested student leaders.

G N Devy writes: The advocates of the Hindu Rashtra have scant regard for the ideals of Ambedkar and Gandhi. Rather, the negation of their ideas is what constitutes the current ideological brand of Hindu

The government should also use the current supply crisis to wean away farmers from applying too much high-analysis fertilisers.

It is not too late even now for the Centre to call a meeting of the border states and brief them about the security concerns that have prompted this decision.

Upendra Baxi writes: The pursuit of human rights and justice cannot merely be matters of state and polity. It affects all citizens of the world. Even hard-nosed economic theorists and CEOs must now accept the

Kavita Krishnan writes: The fact is that India’s human rights defenders have held every shade of government responsible and accountable for human rights violations

B N Uniyal writes: What baffled the policemen at a check post was a processions of villagers carrying idols of Hanuman, each with a red cloth around the idol’s waist. The policemen did not know

Suraj Yengde writes: Charanjit Singh Channi’s elevation as CM may be no more than an act of symbolism and charity, but there is also hope that it can throw up a challenge to the caste

P Chidambaram writes: In the last over three years, PM Modi has not uttered a word on the human rights of the prisoners in the Bhima Koregaon case nor on the prolonged delay in even

Leher Kala writes: Whether you have grown up ensconced in layers of privilege or hail from middle-class origins, slander is devastating — and a prison stint is likely to be a (unpleasant) transformative experience.

Tavleen Singh writes: Human rights matter very much in India because the roots of democracy have deep roots and if Mr Modi is angry about the ‘bad image’ that India has got, he has himself