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Decimating Secularism

NEW DELHI, Feb. 3 -- On January 28, 2025, a well-known Calcutta daily carried an article entitled "Rub your eyes: Hindu Rashtra Constitution to be unveiled at Mahakumbh on Basant Panchami." The seemin... Read More


The Quiet Rise of the Hindu Rashtra Rulebook

NEW DELHI, Feb. 3 -- One sometimes wonders how blind people can be when they apply perspectives. When one does something, it is lawful; when someone else does the same, it is deemed criminal. This dis... Read More


Trump and the Constitution!

NEW DELHI, Jan. 27 -- Within a few hours of his swearing-in, the new American president signed a slew of executive orders that shocked the world. One of them was that those born in the US could not as... Read More


Take Life As It Comes

NEW DELHI, Jan. 27 -- Long, long ago-nobody knows how long ago-an old man and his son lived in a hut on a mountain with their only horse. One day, the horse disappeared, and almost all the villagers o... Read More


RSS Chief's Remarks Spark National Debate

NEW DELHI, Jan. 27 -- In a development that has sent shockwaves through India's religious and political landscape, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat's recent statements about 'ghar... Read More


Indian Trade Unions at Crossroads

NEW DELHI, Jan. 27 -- Trade unions are indispensable entities in industrial relations. In order to maintain justice and equity in employment situations, trade unions have historically fought against e... Read More


Lack of Coherence in Indian Democracy

NEW DELHI, Jan. 27 -- Just two years after India's independence, Dr Rajendra Prasad noted, "We have prepared a democratic Constitution. But successful working of democratic institutions requires in t... Read More


A Republic, But Only "If You Can Keep It"

NEW DELHI, Jan. 27 -- We celebrate the 76th Republic Day to commemorate the 'greatness of the occasion' registered in the minds of our people 75 years ago. It is a thrilling moment of emotion when eve... Read More


Imperial State of America Trump Sparks Global Alarm

NEW DELHI, Jan. 27 -- During the last 30-plus years that I have been writing this weekly column, I have chosen to write on foreign issues only very rarely. I decided to make an exception this week as ... Read More


Trump's Second Coming Portends Chaos and Disruption

NEW DELHI, Jan. 27 -- Trump's inauguration ceremony in the US Capitol on January 20 was marked by the presence of some of the wealthiest men in the world. On the crowded dias were Elon Musk, a former ... Read More