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Gain for the US, and Israel in Syria, not for Turkey
Only a politically naïve person—or a fool–would believe that the people of Syria and Turkey and not the United States (which has a base not very far away from Damascus) and Israel…
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Baten Gay to Jeeten Gay: Divided We Win, United You Lose
The unprecedented delay of 12 days in formation of the government by the National Democratic Alliance in Maharashtra has ultimately confirmed that the ruling coalition registered a historic victoryeven though it was…
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BJP committed political suicide in Jharkhand, INDIA made blunders in Maharashtra
The mainstream media is underplaying this fact, the blow the Bharatiya Janata Party suffered in Jharkhand is much more devastating than the one sustained by the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance in…
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Why no serious effort is made to implement the Uniform Criminal Code?
When there is no Uniform Criminal Code in India—and there is no plan to bring it about shortly–the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party bigwigs, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are repeatedly promising the…
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Trump wins gender battle as US voters deny another chance to woman candidate
Rarely in the democratic world, an electoral battle is fought based on gender. Nowhere on the planet—even in any obscure country of Africa–a woman Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, has been targeted for…
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Muslim politics: Revisiting the past to understand politics of today and tomorrow
The Muslims who grew up after December 6, 1992 are often in a state of dilemma as to whether it was the alleged inept handling of the Babri Masjid dispute by the…
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Misunderstood history: Jews, Christians, and the Muslim connection
History cannot be rolled back, but it can certainly be understood from a proper perspective. It is extremely difficult to restore the status quo ante. Thus, notwithstanding the speeches made by Benjamin…
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Demonization, not just isolation of Jats worked for the BJP in Haryana
More than the Congress Party it was the defeat of the journalistic fraternity and political pundits of all hue and colour in Haryana as almost all of them had till 10:00 on…
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Iranian retaliation, Hezbollah’s resistance catch many global experts off-guard
On October 2 morning a veteran strategic affairs expert, while reading his own Op Ed article in a premier Indian newspaper of that date found himself in an embarrassing situation as whatever…
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Israel’s long game to exploit Lebanon’s crisis
While analyzing the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasarallah and subsequent developments one needs to understand the complex history of Lebanon and how the Israelis had in the past managed to…
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Biden’s hidden war: How US is involved in Israel’s battles
The most significant aspect of the killing of Hasan Nasrallah is that it came within hours of the Israeli Prime Minister’s landing in the United States, exactly like the last trip when…
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Israel: From leading ‘exporter’ to ‘importer’ of arms
If Israel is really a leading exporter of the military equipment of the world where is the need for it to buy arms from India, which till sometimes back actually was among…
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One Nation One Election: Year-long process can stall India’s growth
The only likely impact of the One Nation One Election policy—if ever implemented—is that the ruling party politicians will have to cut the ribbons of various developmental projects on the poll eve once every…
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Crisis in medical colleges: Suicides, scandals and systemic neglect
Two suicides by the Post Graduate students of Delhi’s premier Maulana Azad Medical College in quick succession and two apologies, one by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and another by the…
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US election-victory in debate no guarantee of election win for Kamala Harris
Former President and Republican Donald Trump is the only United States Presidential candidate to take on a woman nominee of the rival party, not once but twice. In 2016 it was Hillary…