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Imagining a quasi-nation

30 Oct 2016 2:54 AM IST
On October 14, the Government of West Bengal organised a “special procession” at the Red Road with the best Durga idols of Kolkata. The Red Road is...

Opposition must reject Modi’s idea

16 Oct 2016 2:18 AM IST
In the Indian Union, elections to Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha do not happen simultaneously now. The Assembly and Parliamentary elections started...

When the Indian media wants bloodshed

24 Sept 2016 3:56 AM IST
When two nuclear-armed governments are aggressively egged on by their respective “mainstream” media for “action” and “reaction”, it looks like a dress...

Mizoram's Pasaltha Khuangchera

16 Sept 2016 4:01 AM IST
Paying respect to a freedom fighter is one of the most sacred public relations exercises when it comes to Government of India. The list of Indian...

Linguistic genocide

26 Aug 2016 2:36 AM IST
Imagine a middle-class Tamil person in Chennai. He is a citizen of the Indian Union. He has always wanted to defend his homeland from external...

Zakir Naik and the identity hypocrisy

7 Aug 2016 4:46 AM IST
While powerful sections of the political class in the Indian Union and powerful mass media are trying to whip up the demand for taking stern action...

Why Mamata is opposed to Centre’s UDAY scheme

3 Aug 2016 5:48 AM IST
Even after a huge amount of pressure being applied to West Bengal by the Union government, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has firmly stood...

Why administer India from New Delhi?

15 July 2016 5:04 AM IST
In the much-touted age of co-operative federalism, the Union government is centralising at break-neck speed. In a huge change to how Indian...

Dissenting against the GST Bill

24 Jun 2016 2:39 AM IST
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced recently that almost all states except Tamil Nadu are on board on the draft Goods and Services Tax bill that...

Federal front formation makes sense

11 Jun 2016 3:21 AM IST
With the end of the crucial set of Assembly polls in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, and Kerala, politicking has already started for the Lok Sabha...

Delhi and the rest of us: A gangrenous old saga

22 May 2016 9:43 PM IST
How the Indian Union came to be as it is today is quite different from the bed-time tales that the textbooks of the Indian Union have doggedly taught...

Skewed debate on justice system

13 Aug 2015 4:15 AM IST
Yakub Memon was hanged to death on July 30, 2015. His conviction strongly rested on his ‘confession’ to the police, which used to be admissible under...
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