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By Bharat Bhushan As voters in 20 states prepare to cast their ballots for 91 LokSabha seats in the first of seven phases of the general election on April 11, Prime Minister

By Prabhat Patnaik I propose to go back in this piece to the Indian air force’s strikes against the terrorist camps at Balakot in Pakistan some weeks ago. My concern here is

By Sanjeev Ahluwalia We are far from junking top down, paternalistic, big man rule. Regional political leaders are no different in their preferred style of governance. The pre-election media blitzkrieg — paid

By Amlan Home Chowdhury Quite a few decades ago, an interesting piece of poll-time gossip surfaced in an eastern Indian state concerning its chief minister. The wags had it that the chief

By Suhail Ahmad Wani “Some Indians crawl face downwards in front of their gods. I wanted them to know that a British woman is as sacred as a Hindu god & therefore

By Dr Mahboob A Khawaja “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”

By Priyanka Tripathi Postcolonial India was largely democratic, however, in recent times, it has given way to a divisive society with religious sectarianism, conservative mindsets and politics of hatred. Despite the established

By Ruchir Joshi In the run up to the last LokSabha elections, the propagandists of the BJP-RSS began projecting a cluster of reasonably well thought out lies. The set menu these waiters

By Kumar Ketkar Far too many times, journalists experience a sense of déjà vu in their career. Eight years ago, in April, Anna Hazare had begun his indefinite fast to demand a