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In the name of national interest
2 July 2017 9:29 PM ISTGST roll-out further reduces the autonomy of the States which was taken away at the time of Partition .
Faux cosmopolitanism
8 Jun 2017 7:46 PM ISTOn June 2, a journalist of Times Now channel (owned by an Agrawal Jain family from Uttar Pradesh) accosted Vishwanath Mahadeshwar, the Mayor of...
Barkati and Themis
31 May 2017 8:59 PM ISTRecently in Kolkata, a compelling saga played itself out. Barkati, the infamous Imam of the famous Tipu Sultan mosque situated in central Kolkata was...
India must consider OBOR again
26 May 2017 9:48 PM ISTThe One Belt One Road (OBOR) mega project, now renamed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is arguably the greatest trade connectivity and...
Imposition of Hindi
26 April 2017 10:23 PM ISTNon-Hindi speakers will effectively have to pay for a system that actively discriminates against them
If you don't want your neighbours to shoot you, stop shooting them
22 April 2017 7:23 PM ISTHow "use of force cannot be justified under any circumstances," in connection to the internal probes carried out after killings in the border regions
The Mother in Bande Mataram is not Mother India
8 April 2017 8:12 PM ISTThe conception of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay who wrote Bande Mataram, and Abanindranath Thakur, who painted the first image of Mother India, Bengal...
Whither cooperative federalism?
21 March 2017 9:57 PM ISTOn the issue of port development in West Bengal in general and the development of the proposed Tajpur port in particular, the Union government has...
Contesting political colours
19 March 2017 9:50 PM ISTWhy do ‘Hindi-Hindustani’ forms of religious and cultural expression take precedence?
The ambit of sedition
9 March 2017 9:14 PM ISTIs publicly calling for an independent Kashmir or Punjab (and by implication destroying the unity and integrity of the Indian Union as presently...
Against the spirit of federalism
26 Feb 2017 10:32 PM ISTAs of now, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palanisamy of the AIADMK seems to be in charge of affairs. The political turmoil in Tamil Nadu seems to...