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Ashok Malik
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Ashok Malik is senior fellow, Observer Research Foundation. He can be reached at malikashok@gmail.com
    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses mediapersons at Nabanna on Tuesday. (Photo: Abhijit Mukherjee)Opinion
    West Bengal pays price as Didi plays Muslim card

    Mobs spread out, burnt down buildings, damaged public property and targeted Hindu houses.

    9 July 2017 12:18 AM IST

    UIDAI is the nodal body responsible for rolling out AadhaarOpinion
    To share data or not?

    Indian companies, however, have different compliance protocols, answerable as they are to the Indian state.

    11 Jun 2017 1:28 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a gathering in Guwahati. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    What's in a name? A lot, it seems, in politics

    Congress politicians and partisans responded to the inauguration of the bridge with a peculiar protest.

    28 May 2017 6:13 AM IST

    RJD President lalu Prasad Yadav. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    After raids on Lalu, what will Nitish do?

    The use of shell companies is distressingly familiar in India.

    18 May 2017 3:54 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi during Civil Services Day 2017 function in New Delhi. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Why has the BJP's win made its MPs tense?

    The 2014 campaign was a pulsating and historic one but its essential architecture was unorthodox.

    30 April 2017 12:38 AM IST

    In India, typically, both reasons have been cited for imposing restrictions on cow slaughter, and largely they have been accepted. (Photo: File)Opinion
    A beef with the State

    The cow is a symbol of reverence for many in Indian society.

    16 April 2017 12:25 AM IST

    Prime MInister Narendra Modi. (Photo: File)Opinion
    Verdict 2017's lesson: Nurture local leaders

    Mr Modi and Amit Shah, the two senior men in the BJP today, are alive to the need to build regional figures and icons.

    19 March 2017 2:13 AM IST

    Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Little room for fresh India-Pak initiative

    Nawaz Sharif has taken advantage of the transition in the Army to enhance his relative strength.

    5 March 2017 1:23 AM IST

    Faith, Unity, Discipline: The Inter-Service Intelligence of Pakistan by Hein Kiessling HarperCollins, Rs 599Books
    Book review: A first-rate study of Pak's spook headquarters

    The ISI's resurrection and golden hour came in the 1980s, after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

    26 Feb 2017 1:35 AM IST

    Pakistani para-military soldiers stand alert after a deadly suicide attack at the shrine of famous Sufi Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan, Pakistan. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Fighting Islamic State: A trap for India

    Sufi shrines, Shia mosques, dargahs, and so on have been systematically attacked in the past decade, in Punjab, Sindh...

    19 Feb 2017 2:20 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Get real! Trump is here to stay

    Some 1,250 asylum seekers largely males from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan had sought residency in Australia.

    5 Feb 2017 1:07 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump talk with former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama during a departure ceremony on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Trump, Obama & future

    American Presidents are also influenced by their social and professional backgrounds.

    22 Jan 2017 3:22 AM IST

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