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Ayodhya Verdict: Justice Chandrachud’s Remarks Sparked Debate Over Law, Faith, and National Ethos
Former Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, widely seen as author of the Ayodhya Judgment on November 9, 2019, on Ranjan Gogoi Bench of the Supreme Court, had once famously said…
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Left fading away, with last bastion crumbling
Left seems all all set to fade away from the Indian political landscape by 2026, when its last bastion, Kerala, goes to polls. Perilously close to the BJP in Kerala, the CPM…
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Release of Rakhshanda Jalil’s book ‘Whose Urdu Is It Anyway?’
Partition brought in its wake quite a few myths. One that religion can be the basis of Nationhood, crystallized by Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League in the form of Two-Nation Theory. Two…
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Opinion: Priyanka Gandhi is unstoppable
Parliamentary democracy seemed at its peak in recent times, with Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi leading the Opposition charge. A deadly weapon acquisition in the Opposition armoury is Priyanka Gandhi, who recently…
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Anand Bakshi at 105: A tribute to the iconic Bollywood lyricist
Renowned Urdu poets, who turned lyricists, dominated the Golden Era of Hindi Cinema Iconic and towering personalities like Sahir Ludhianvi, Shakeel Badayuni, Kaifi Azmi, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Shailendra, and…
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Emergency of 1975: Indira Gandhi, the Constitution, and the burden of leadership
As India marks the Golden Jubilee of the Emergency, it is time to revisit the oft-maligned decision through a different lens, one that examines the threats Indira Gandhi faced and the constitutional…
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Kaifi Azmi: The king of romance and conscience
Kaifi Azmi was the King of Romance. Kaifi Azmi, Sahir Ludhianvi and Shakeel Badayuni formed a triumvirate of romantic poets-lyricists who dominated the Golden Era of Hindi Cinema. A part of the…
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Opinion: Unleashing PMLA entails link to terror
National Herald, voice of the Freedom Struggle and the legacy of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the Architect of Modern India, is caught up in an unseemly row over alleged proceeds of crime and…
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Waqf Act as a polarization tool
As the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, comes into force, it kicks in a new sense of a concerted move to drastically change the character and alter the status of Waqf property and…
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Bofors: Story behind the news
Chitra Subramaniam’s memoir, Boforsgate: A Journalist’s Pursuit of Truth, was released recently to rave reviews. It brings back spotlight on her highlighting her role in the expose. Chitra Subramaniam, in Geneva for…
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The iconic Raj Kapoor: Architect of Hindi cinema’s Indian identity
Golden Era of the Hindi Cinema started with Raj Kapoor’s Barsaat in 1949. Raj Kapoor emerged as India’s First and Greatest Showman, whose magic sustained through the decades. Raj Kapoor was the…
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Bangladesh Sinks Into Dictatorship
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who earned the distinction of being the world’s longest-serving Prime Minister, met with a sad end to her long political career. She was unceremoniously forced to quit…
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Book review: Love in the Time of Hate – In the Mirror of Urdu
Sing Heavenly Muse, is the sublime opening of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Rakhshanda Jalil has an equally evocative, epic scale and tenor in the opening to what may well turn out to be…
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Book review: ‘@75 As I Saw It,’ by Mahendra Ved
Mahendra Ved is a veteran journalist, who covered some of the most tumultuous events in India and in the Indian Sub-Continent. These include the India-Pakistan War of 1971, when Bangladesh was liberated.…
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PV Narasimha Rao was never a reformer strictly
Ironic it may sound though, despite ushering in the Economic Reforms in 1991, P V Narasimha Rao, whose 103rd Birth Anniversary falls on June 28, was never a reformer, in the strict…