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Western dilemma over Shia Iran’s global Sunni support-base
Among other things, the biggest challenge the United States-led West faces before attacking Shia-dominated Iran, which no doubt is passing through a serious economic crisis, is that the government in Tehran, against…
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When small is ugly: Somaliland, UAE emerge as new pawns of the West
Small is beautiful, but perhaps not in global geo-politics. Fragmenting a sizeable country with rich resources – a phenomenon called balkanization – is a part of the policy of imperialist forces ever…
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Macaulay was a foot soldier in the massive Western civilisational onslaught
If we cannot erase the impact of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s Minute of 1835, 190 years after what he wrote, then 1,900 years later, too, we will continue to blame just one individual…
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Can Nitish Kumar avoid the fate of his mentor Fernandes
The difficulty Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar faced while taking oath on November 20 reminded one of the campaign undertaken by his frail-looking mentor, George Fernandes, during the 2009 Lok Sabha election. …
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Money power fuels AIMIM wins in Bihar’s Seemanchal region
What is being ignored amidst the larger-than-life presence of All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen supremo, Asaduddin Owaisi, is the manner in which some local strongmen, contractors, builders, big businessmen etc. have either got elected…
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Zakaria’s new Middle East fantasy ignores Gulf atrocities in war
When there is widespread condemnation of the stand taken by Gulf monarchies on Gaza carnage and Sudanese civil war, the Washington Post columnist, Fareed Zakaria, deemed it fit to shower praise on…
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Women-empowerment in Bihar is a media created myth
The transfer of Rs 10,000 to (till now) 1.21 crore women by the Nitish Kumar government for starting small businesses is being interpreted by his supporters as another step in the direction…
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Bhagwat to Shah remarks that could derail NDA in Bihar Elections
Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s assertion on 16 October that the newly elected legislators of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar would decide on the choice of chief minister has sparked…
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Time running out for Netanyahu as Gaza conflict winds down
It is relatively easy to fight a war with dreaded enemies on the front, but it is tougher to confront peace with its own citizens. This is the predicament of the Israeli…
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‘Marwaris Go Back’ stir in Telangana: Is it the outcome of tussle between new and old trading communities?
Though the Marwari Banias have been engaged in trade and money-lending business in erstwhile Hyderabad state for almost last three centuries—or may be even more—yet it is now that Telangana is witnessing…
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Freebies, jobs to women; lathis, denial of opportunities to men in poll-bound Bihar
The general perception in the media is that a sizeable percentage of women are still inclined towards Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. What is not discussed in our television studios and Op-ed…
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Attack on Qatar: Erdogan befools the Muslim world
Eleven days before Israel targeted Qatar on September 9 to eliminate Hamas leaders engaged in peace talks, Turkey was reminded that Israel had been “committing genocide” in Gaza. Its foreign minister, Hakan…
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Prashant Kishor may prove a dark horse for the NDA in Bihar
When Prashant Kishor in a series of interviews in May 2024 predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance’s tally would surpass 400-seats in the Lok Sabha election many independent political…
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Radhakrishnan as Vice President or BJP chief: Which will help the party more in Tamil Nadu?
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s move to field C P Radhakrishnan as the Vice-Presidential candidate to improve its performance in the Assembly election in Tamil Nadu next year amounts to banging one’s head…
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How Zionists paved way for the massacre of 6 million Jews to create Israel
Perhaps no time is better than the post-Iran-Israel conflict of June 2025 to explain that Zionists and Jews are not synonymous with each other. Rather, it would not be very much out…
