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Published in: openIndiaCan Indian democracy survive Modi’s assault on liberalism?The re-elected prime minster's embrace of Hindu nationalism rejects liberalism and leaves democracy hanging in the balance.
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Published in: openIndiaPolitical triplets of New DemocracyThe three leaders play stellar roles in an absurd political play with a gigantic setting in which things were never...
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Published in: openIndiaIndia: a general election, emerging model of power, and populist resistanceMake no mistake; a social war is being fought between capital and the subaltern classes who are behind the populists...
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Published in: HomeIndian elections: it wasn’t the economy, stupid!The people accepted electoral authoritarianism for their security. This neutralised warnings by intellectuals and...
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Published in: HomeA weird election campaign in India!Hate speech makes a minority cower even as a vast section of the majority is made to feel insecure and besieged.
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Published in: HomeWhatsApp Democracy comes to India!The business potential is limitless and the expensive Facebook war rooms established to fight for truth will start...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy dumbed downTV anchor Ravish Kumar, a kill-joy and not a theatre-lover, dislikes the very sight of a Nero fiddling and has run a...
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Published in: openIndiaIndian democracy, then and nowThe level of sectarianism was kept under restraint before, because never before did a sectarian political party...
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Published in: HomeStalemate for Trump and Kim, as India and Pakistan risk nuclear war over KashmirThrough aggressive rhetoric and miscalculations nuclear war can happen by accident. As the Trump-Kim circus...
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Published in: openIndiaA tale of two events, and two culturesThe Science Congress and Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), held in India every January, are the largest events of...
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Published in: openIndiaResilient Hinduism has endured upheavalsIt was not always like this. Hinduism neutralised competing elements by absorbing them. This faith tradition was...
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Published in: openIndiaRising roar of faux faith in poll-bound IndiaRead the newspapers, listen to the TV “debates” and see the WhatsApp-trained ignorant armies clash day and night.
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Published in: openIndiaSowing division: caste is crucial in Indian electionsOf course, politicians did not create the powerful Hindu caste system. They merely exploit this fault-line,...
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Published in: openIndiaDivine players in Indian politicsIn a politically-surcharged atmosphere, no one should doubt that the appearance of Lord Ram’s idol in the mosque on...
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Published in: openIndiaElections diminish democracy in IndiaIt was not always like that. Those tracking the progress of democracy in India should interview political activists...
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Published in: openIndia#MetooIndia: the future is female. Or is it really?The burgeoning movement has spilled forth beyond the confines of the film and entertainment industry. But how far will it go?
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Published in: openIndia#MeToo movement rumbles on in IndiaWorking up public outrage is an art and not all political parties are able to create mass hysteria.
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Published in: openIndia#MeToo in a country that worships God as womanDuring a festival celebrating the Goddess who kills a demon menacing Gods, scores of educated Indian women have...
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Published in: openIndiaImran thanks Modi, and eyes joint Nobel Peace Prize“India led by you would never think of undoing the Partition. Your party depends on Pakistan for its existence.” A...
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Published in: openIndiaGood Bye, Gandhi!Writing on Gandhi in an India stricken by faux patriotism and jingoism causes gloom. A poem in Indian English...