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A G Noorani
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The writer is an author and lawyer based in Mumbai
    The RSS wants to have Manusmriti as the constitution of the country. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Is Constitution 'anti-Hindu' or the RSS anti-Indian?

    The RSS has now chosen to speak through its outfit, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.

    29 Sept 2019 12:00 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra ModiOpinion
    Protests set to grow after the clampdown lifts in J&K

    After the Partition of India, that separatist†sentiment became stronger still.

    22 Sept 2019 3:05 AM IST

    Supreme Court of India (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Protest makes students grow up as citizens

    The Sangh Parivar's men break up meetings on campuses at which visiting speakers critical of the Sangh's ideology and...

    15 Sept 2019 12:02 AM IST

    The sources said, Election Commission would also ask law ministry to take call on its demand to extend constitutional protection to 2 election commissioners on lines of CEC. (Photo: File)Opinion
    We must praise signatories to the open letter to India's 3 ECs

    The media reported large-scale voter exclusion, with some accounts suggesting that voters from certain minority groups...

    8 Sept 2019 7:50 AM IST

    Gotabaya Rajapaksa (Photo: ANI)Opinion
    Torture & law: Jurisdiction on this crime can be universal

    There exists on the United States' statute book an old statute of 1789 called the Alien Tort Claims Act.

    1 Sept 2019 6:07 AM IST

    Children walk past concertina wire during restrictions following the abrogation of the provisions of Article 370 in Srinagar on Friday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    After Art 370 scrapping, the Shimla pact is virtually 'dead'

    They are an integral part of the decision taken in 2014 to bar all talks with Pakistan on the Kashmir dispute.

    26 Aug 2019 12:00 AM IST

    Children walk past concertina wire during restrictions following the abrogation of the provisions of Article 370 in Srinagar on Friday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Repression cannot kill millennium-old Kashmiri dream

    Narendra Modi can now claim that he has accomplished what A.B. Vajpayee and L.K. Advani could not.

    18 Aug 2019 12:13 AM IST

    Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    The Speaker's impartiality is indispensable

    In India, the Economist's words would be seen as Speakers' violating parliamentary privilege.

    4 Aug 2019 12:54 AM IST

    The National Security Council was used, abused and ignored, depending on the Presidents whims.Opinion
    How premiers have preferred their NSA over their diplomats

    Israel's foreign minister Abba Eban found Prime Minister Golda Meir a difficult pupil to instruct.

    28 July 2019 12:44 AM IST

    The irony in its behaviour, and its impact on Saarc, lies in the fact that it was India that stalled the framing of the Saarc Regional Convention on Suppression of Terrorism (RCST).Opinion
    India stalled framing of Saarc terror convention

    India matters enormously to Saarc, and yet, India can and has crippled Saarc.

    21 July 2019 12:03 AM IST

    The Press Council of India has a disgraceful record on Kashmir.Opinion
    Kashmir's press and India: The disconnect

    Newspapers that report excesses committed by the Army, the Central or the local police are intimidated if they perform...

    14 July 2019 12:05 AM IST

    Chinese President Xi JinpingOpinion
    Why Xi is unwise to scrap maps

    China has land borders with 14 countries and maritime borders with at least nine other countries.

    7 July 2019 12:11 AM IST

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