How often do we hear that Muslims are being discriminated against, and that it is this that has led to their extreme poverty and backwardness? This seductive argument has been used, once again, by...
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Long before many of us were born, there lived a man in India who raised his voice against exploitation of India's resources and its citizens by the state that was then run by a colonial power. This...
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If a picture can say what a thousand words can't, this is one of them.Taken at the recent Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi and given top billing across six columns on a page that bore...
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In the middle of all the noise in the media about the Naxal problem, brought to the fore again by the 'train-jacking' of the Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani by nearly 500 citizens, an extremely important...
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Pakistan is an idea that was doomed to fail the moment it got the shape of a state. Although MA Jinnah himself divided India into two on the basis of religion, he held on to the exactly opposite...
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Almost everyone seems to think that the results that have been declared today for the assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana and Maharashtra are, as Barkha Dutt said in a tweet, "terrible...
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China's dramatic transformation into an economic power house in virtually the blink of a sleepy Indian eye has shaken some Indian leaders out of their misplaced slumber. It is beginning to dawn on...
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The recent elections in Maharashtra have brought a harsh truth to the surface: rulers of Independent India have failed the people of both Gadchiroli and Mumbai, Bharat and India. How does one draw...
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In the last decade of the 20th Century, political scientist Samuel P. Huttington propounded the much debated theory of the Clash of Civilisations, according to which the fault lines between cultures...
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Guest post by Gopinath Mavinkurve'2 States’ the latest from the latest youth icon, Chetan Bhagat, is about a Punjabi Munda by name of Krish wanting to marry Ananya, a Madrasi, er..Tamilian – a...
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