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The writer is an author and lawyer based in Mumbai

India's policy of isolating Pak: What has it achieved?

A deliberate policy of confrontation was launched, at stages, almost immediately after Narendra Modi came to power in...

21 May 2018 5:28 AM IST

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in embrace each other after signing a joint statement at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea on April 28. (Photo: AP)

Summitry isn't a game for small men to play

In contrast, German Chancellor Angela Merkel went to meet Trump for a purely transactional summit.

6 May 2018 12:39 AM IST

11 people belonging to the minority community were killed in Naroda Gam in 2002 riots during a bandh call made to protest the Godhra train burning incident of February 27, 2002. (Photo: File | AFP)

Naroda Patiya: A case for independent public prosecutors?

Congress leader Arjun Modhwadia accused the prosecution of lapses, saying, Prosecution lawyers drafted the affidavits...

29 April 2018 5:23 AM IST

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti during a meeting in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

There seems to be no end to Kashmiri's suffering

This year marks 30 years of militancy in Kashmir. No end is in sight to the people's sufferings but they will never...

22 April 2018 6:02 AM IST

Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani (Photo: PTI)

Netas create false news; the Press is their victim

The order was withdrawn the very next day on the directions from PM Narendra Modi's office after outrage from the...

15 April 2018 6:11 AM IST

The income-tax department had booked Mr Bhandari under the new act, called the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015. (Photo: PTI)

Need to curb funds' misuse by parties

Civil society and its many think tanks have not exerted enough to provide effective and realistic measures.

8 April 2018 4:41 AM IST

John Bolton led negotiations for America to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty so that the Bush administration could proceed with a national missile-defence programme. (Photo: AP)

Trump's NSA is a threat to world peace

After many a meeting and documents galore, in 1947, the US Congress enacted the National Security Act.

1 April 2018 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Modi needs to change the hawkish doctrine

Modi appointed Doval as NSA almost immediately after he became Prime Minister in May 2014.

25 March 2018 12:13 AM IST

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said the condition was tensed last year in the valley and now the situation is slowly normalising. The people of the state think that their identity can be in danger. (Photo: PTI)

Kashmir: Repression is at an all-time high

A group called Hindu Ekta Manch called for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation, not the police in Kashmir.

18 March 2018 12:12 AM IST

President Ram Nath Kovind (Photo: PTI)

No university can survive in a society riven with strife

The 70-year-old University of Kashmir has been a victim of the sordid politics of those New Delhi instals in power in...

11 March 2018 1:40 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: Asian Age)

Ordinances a blot on the Constitution. SC must act

The ordinance is, both, a blot in and a blot on the Constitution.

4 March 2018 1:49 AM IST

Police personnel outside Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwals residence in New Delhi on Friday during an investigation in relation to the alleged assault on chief secretary Anshu Prakash by Aam Aadmi Party MLAs. (Photo: Asian Age)

Political culture governs probity in public life

Article 102 of the Constitution lays down certain criteria for disqualifications for membership of Parliament.

25 Feb 2018 12:51 AM IST