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    Surgical strike: What was it reallyOpinion
    Surgical strike: What was it really

    It is hard not to recall the great relief the country felt when news came around September 29 midday that the Indian...

    24 Oct 2016 12:12 AM IST

    For PM & BJP, a reality checkOpinion
    For PM & BJP, a reality check

    At the BJP national meet at Kozhikode, Kerala, on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke a week-long spell of...

    26 Sept 2016 12:19 AM IST

    For a new start in KashmirOpinion
    For a new start in Kashmir

    Above all, what afflicts the people of Kashmir Valley is a sense of humiliation. This has built up over the decades.

    4 Sept 2016 12:29 AM IST

    As polls near, RSS takes centrestageOpinion
    As polls near, RSS takes centrestage

    The RSS has now dropped all pretence of being a “cultural” body, the cloak behind which it hid since the ban...

    28 Aug 2016 11:24 PM IST

    Playing dangerous politics in J&KOpinion
    Playing dangerous politics in J&K

    When Pakistan tries to keep the pot boiling in Kashmir, its malicious intent must be countered with vigour.

    1 Aug 2016 12:23 AM IST

    US: A country of contradictionsOpinion
    US: A country of contradictions

    Robert Louis Stevenson, the great writer, spent the summer of 1880 in California, recuperating from an illness, and it...

    4 July 2016 12:42 AM IST

    No place for the Opposition hereOpinion
    No place for the Opposition here

    When Parliament House was assaulted by terrorists some 15 years ago and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was trapped...

    8 May 2016 11:06 PM IST

    A zero for Modi on diplomacyOpinion
    A zero for Modi on diplomacy

    The past 10 days have cruelly exposed the foreign policy pretensions of the Modi government as deep embarrassment has...

    11 April 2016 7:00 AM IST

    Canvas shrinks as doors closeOpinion
    Canvas shrinks as doors close

    There has been a fairly futile discussion for some time, not just among the Left-liberal stream of politics, but also...

    13 March 2016 11:30 PM IST

    When confidence has taken flightOpinion
    When confidence has taken flight

    The soaring confidence of the Bharatiya Janata Party and National Democratic Alliance after the stupendous May 2014 win...

    14 Feb 2016 11:07 PM IST

    PM’s walk in the woods with PakOpinion
    PM’s walk in the woods with Pak

    Since the Pakistani state is military-dominated and military-controlled, it needs an adversarial cause for its...

    17 Jan 2016 10:53 PM IST

    Focus on Kabul, not only LahoreOpinion
    Focus on Kabul, not only Lahore

    In a basic sense, India-Pakistan relations are cut in a groove made by history, the way Pakistan has evolved into being...

    27 Dec 2015 11:04 PM IST

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