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The Mother Tongue Murders
Regional journalists do what the English media can’t – connect with and influence millions of Indians living in smaller towns and rural areas.
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Ayodhya Verdict: Now is the Best Time for India to Say, “Let Bygones Be Bygones”
The centuries-old Ayodhya dispute has stifled and bolted political discourse in India to the regressive wall of hate and bigotry. It has limited the average citizen’s capacity to disassociate from the politics of religious difference. Secularism had almost turned into a hoax. Saturday’s verdict, however, may change something, if not everything.
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A Modern-Day Guide to Gandhigiri
How can one fit the Gandhian model to the average Indian millennial? Maybe the next time your Uber driver makes the wrong turn, think before you shout at his human fallibility.
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This Liberal’s Heart Beats For Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee kept humour and poetry and all those softer emotions that keep our politics humane, alive – all the emotions that have so thoroughly vanished from our public life. His tenure is a reminder that political ideology notwithstanding, there is a world of difference between being a statesman and playing one.
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You Might Be Liberal or Conservative, Pro or Anti-CAA, JNU Students Deserve Your Support
It wasn’t JNU students who went around smashing heads with iron rods, it was the masked thugs. It wasn’t JNU students who vandalised ambulances trying to enter the campus, it was the masked thugs. Regardless of your political ideology, JNU students were under attack. They aren’t the villains here.