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The author is a Delhi-based commentator and analyst
    Kashmiris walks past paramilitary troops patrolling a street in Srinagar on Saturday. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Can Delhi deliver vikas to post-370 Kashmir?

    The rightness or wrongness of the decision will now depend on what it can accomplish in terms of making Kashmir a normal...

    12 Aug 2019 3:00 AM IST

    Sushma Swaraj said that she has directed concerned authorities to be cautious while processing applications of the affected persons for re-issuance of their passports. (Photo: File | ANI)Opinion
    A true-grit achiever, she was capable of more

    The party took full advantage, and rightly so, of her ability to speak loudly and clearly, with force and conviction.

    8 Aug 2019 12:05 AM IST

    People take part in a protest to express solidarity with the Unnao rape survivor at India Gate in New Delhi on Monday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Unnao: It's time to act, outrage is not enough

    So when help is denied to a hapless citizen at all levels, it could not but end in tragedy of enormous proportion.

    3 Aug 2019 1:16 AM IST

    Karnataka CM H.D. Kumaraswamy with his cabinet colleagues after the Assembly was adjourned in Bengaluru on Friday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    No early end in sight to Karnataka turbulence

    It is a moot question whether it would have survived if the coalition partners had done well in the parliamentary...

    25 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

    Speaker Ramesh KumarOpinion
    Can Speaker dictate terms of resignation?

    The Congress as a party would not want to be blackmailing the government.

    17 July 2019 2:45 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah arrive for the BJP Central Election Committee meeting for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on Saturday. (Photo: G.N. Jha)Opinion
    No talk of jobs will not make the issue go away

    Shah had talked of self-employment as a way of dealing with the jobs problem, making it evident that the government is...

    9 July 2019 12:17 AM IST

    Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with her team before presenting the budget. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)Opinion
    Nirmala's Budget fullof political flourishes

    The Budget speech was a political declamation, but there were strong signs of the government's desperate bid to ...

    6 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: ANI | Twitter)Opinion
    Checks and balances: Hubris for Modi, BJP

    Modi is not the first person to express his irritation with the political numbers in the Rajya Sabha.

    2 July 2019 3:03 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra ModiOpinion
    Prosaic agenda: Where is the Modi 2.0 vision?

    There is the predictable and justifiable note of boastfulness after the unmistakable and assertive election victory of...

    22 Jun 2019 7:28 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra ModiOpinion
    Modi takes a hard look at economy's potholes

    There are problems, of course, some of them unstated, some overstated.

    18 Jun 2019 3:30 AM IST

    External affairs minister S. Jaishankar addresses a meet in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    For Modi, Jaishankar is like Nixon's Kissinger

    There was the sincere intent to strengthen the Saarc.

    11 Jun 2019 1:33 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday made an indirect reference to the air strikes carried out by the Indian Air Force. (File Photo)Opinion
    Modi's huge mandate to be a heavy burden

    The second Modi government is on its own, and it will be expected not to commit the blunders of its first term.

    3 Jun 2019 1:07 AM IST

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