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The writer is Dawn�??s correspondent in New Delhi

Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar (Photo: PTI)

Some Nepal lessons for India's Left, others too

Indians will get their chance in 2019 regardless of the outcome of the Gujarat elections.

13 Dec 2017 1:56 AM IST

A still from Padmavati.

The subtle idiom of prejudice

Communal poison is spread in such innocuous yet lasting ways.

29 Nov 2017 2:24 AM IST

Of history, mythology and a court case

The problem really is the free rein given to violence and the state's complicity in terrorising people with a different...

22 Nov 2017 3:04 AM IST

Aligarh Muslim University. (Photo: File)

The boy and the country

As for Sir Syed and Claude Martin, they represented colonialism's positive moments but only in the interest of...

1 Nov 2017 2:50 AM IST

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury (Photo: PTI)

Why is Left dithering over doing battle with the Right?

It is true that Hindutva has thrived and prospered by vending spurious historiography and a questionable sense of...

11 Oct 2017 1:05 AM IST

Malerkotla Indian Shiite Muslims flagellate themselves during a procession on Muharram in Malerkotla. (Photo: PTI)

The wretched of the earth

In their popular message, both events Muharram and Ram Lila are observed as marking the triumph of good over evil.

4 Oct 2017 12:49 AM IST

Stanislav Petrov

How Petrov kept his cool, and saved the world...

The disaster had set off a spiral of Cold War omens, which played out elsewhere, including Afghanistan.

27 Sept 2017 3:19 AM IST

Carnatic music is boring, singers are always slapping away the tala; not interesting.

Salt, pepper and the Beatles

For keen ears, music is not a performance. It's a way of perceiving the world.

20 Sept 2017 2:39 AM IST

Editor, social activist and a virulent critic of right-wing groups, Gauri Lankesh, was shot dead Tuesday night outside her residence in Bengaluru. (Photo: Facebook)

Of Lankesh, Ambedkar and Hinduism

Lankesh saw Hinduism not as a religion open to change but as a hidebound hierarchy ranged against women and the lower...

13 Sept 2017 1:58 AM IST

Al-Jazeera (Photo: AFP)

To Chicago via Doha: The joys of the detour

One senses in Al Jazeera's reports a bias for regressive religious ideologues.

23 Aug 2017 12:41 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed 1.25 crore Indians for fourth time. (Photo: PTI)

How not to travel anywhere

Mirza Ghalib prescribed the first route in the 19th century. The second way has been popularised by Narendra Modi.

16 Aug 2017 2:05 AM IST

RJD chief Lalu Yadav. (Photo:AP)

Since Afghan Taliban were honest...

The investigations sought to establish that Modi had helped the Adani group in securing undeserved tax refunds.

2 Aug 2017 12:29 AM IST