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The people of Jammu & Kashmir have been justly lauded for the resoluteness with which they came out to vote in the recent elections to the state Assembly.
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In India a general election to parliament is due early next year, and different Indians must desire to see different things happen.
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Remarkably, where vested segments among Hindu organizations have sought to move the majority community towards undemocratic closures, it is the beleaguered Muslim counterparts that have been...
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Like every other Indian, therefore, I am deeply saddened both by the insane loss of life, notable and ordinary, and by the damage done to this edifice. Especially when I recall that the Taj was...
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These are confused times for India's political Hinduism.
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So, now, India is home to óHinduó terrorism...
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Within hours, literally, the world will know whether the nation-state in America as decreed by the American Constitution has or has not triumphed finally over the competing, even if subterranean,...
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What lovely times those must have been when a rose was a rose by any name?
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Likewise, how fortuitous for India's beleaguered Christians that the good Prime Minister had to suffer “embarrassment” while traveling Christian lands recently. Think that in France, the...
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As the American neocon state borrows a whole sheaf from Chavez and other despised socialists, and stoops to nationalizing—yes, nationalizing-- the great and invincible bulwarks of American...
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By first causing monumental social upheavals in the pursuit of profit maximization, then recommending quick-fixes guaranteed to spawn still worse upheavals so that more profitable quick-fixes are...
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Take any of India's political parties—excluding the ossified Left which remains unprofitably wedded to principle, although the principle may change from circumstance to circumstance—and you...
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First the question: does it matter much whether America elects a Republican or a Democrat as its President? May be not to the rest of the world, but to American citizens it does.
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After decades of the US being the only superpower, the world is changing.
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I may not be accused of ever having written a good word about L.K.Advani, the leader and now projected prime ministerial candidate of the Hindu-rightwing Bhartiya Janata Party.
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Nature may break the levees and uproot whole populations, but Presidents and Prime Ministers may not. You might well ask what is a President or Prime Minister for, if the little fellows should...
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When, after the massacre of Muslims in 2002, the electorate in Gujarat voted the butcher of Gandhinagar—the Capital city of Gujarat; but think of the enormous irony of that oxymoron—back to...
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May 31, 2008 must rank as a very consequential day in modern Indian history. Indeed, it might be said, in modern Muslim history as well. On that day, in a public gathering at Delhi's historic...
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Like a long line of painters through human history, Husain has often painted the nude. Painters we are told seek to penetrate beyond man-made encumbrances to celebrate how god made the world in...
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Over the last month or so, India's most influential Islamic seminaries—Deoband, Bareilly, Lucknow, Hyderabad—have been holding well-attended public meetings/conferences with a single-point...
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Clearly, the Left is not too well placed today either to return to the “Calcutta Thesis” of 1943 (armed struggle), nor to reap through appeals to class oppression alone the kind of electoral...
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Turn on any of India's up-market corporate channels, and you will find therein but just one lead: the IPL, or the Indian Premier League of 20x20 cricket.
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For more than a year now the government in Chattisgarh, supported, it must be said, by some local Congress stalwarts, has quarantined some fifty thousand tribals in make-shift camps away from their...
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Ever since the Hindutva right-wing, led by the top leadership of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), demolished the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on Dec.,6,1992 in brazen defiance of the Constitution and...
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For the wary, let me say that it is not my incautious case that democracy has finally arrived in Pakistan (when does anything ever arrive finally?). An election, alas, does not a democracy make...
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Is "carnage" and "bloodbath" the right language to describe a stock market crash?
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An Indian view on Benazir Bhutto's murder
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Unlike the mellow inclusivity of Nehruvian enlightenment that strenuously refused the bastardization of variegated cultural refinement and richness, that resisted a gluttonously rapacious leap for...
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I write this on the fifteenth anniversary of the demolition of the Babri mosque by fascist hordes of the Sangh Parivar, consequent upon the pogrom set in motion by Advani's infamous rath yatra.
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The Indo-US nuclear energy deal may or may not happen. The contested debate that surrounds it has, nonetheless, brought to the fore issues and allegiances of far-reaching consequence.
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