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Wishful thinking?
Kuldip Nayar
My hunch is that Gujarat's map of India showing Arunachal Pradesh with dotted lines,suggesting a disputed territory, was at the instance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Gujarat is his backyard and he can have anything done…
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Tibet: A ‘problem’ that India glossed over
Rajesh Singh
The 1950s presented many occasions to New Delhi to push for a Tibet free from Chinese control. But Prime Minister Nehru failed to rise to the occasion. As a consequence, China is now 'up to our gates'
Spiritual leader Dalai…
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Ignorance, lies pose as truth in RSS’s history books
Sitaram Yechury
The latest incident of the dismissal of 11 Dalit students from a BJP state government-run school in Bikaner, Jaipur, on the grounds that they were drinking water from an earthen pot earmarked for an upper caste teacher once…
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Life on edge
Hopping between one crisis to another, life has never been smooth in J and K State. Nature has been playing havoc creating trying conditions with the government and administration playing truants and failing to come up to the expectations…
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Give due share
Faced with another piquant situation more than 15,000 families living all along the borders of Jammu division are uprooted from their hearths for no fault of theirs. The constant ceasefire violations by Pakistan all along the International…
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Playing with ecosystems
Devinder Sharma
Flood waters in Srinagar are receding. But after the death toll has been estimated, the compensation for human life and economic loss paid out, and the city slowly limps back to normalcy, it is time to get to the most…
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Mubarak Mandi—Demolition of the central platform
Mahesh Kaul
Heritage preservation is both historic and scientific process and it cannot be carried out in ad hoc manner and implemented like other construction and building processes. The main aim of the techniques is to maintain the time…
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BJP at crossroads: What party can learn from bypolls results
Rajdeep Sardesai
Indian voters have a knack of surprising political pundits. Just a few weeks ago, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah could do no wrong; now, after a series of byelection reverses, the Modi-Shah duo is being blamed for losing the…
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Counterproductive
Pakistan could not gain much success in pushing in the indoctrinated terrorists trained in the 42 ISI terror training camps who suffered repeated casualties in their efforts to sneak in India. The terror handlers of Pakistan who were…
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Archaic laws
To simplify redress of grievances, government has begun the process to weed out outdated laws and regulations. The Law Ministry, in consultation with other ministries, has identified 1,094 laws which can be repealed. To begin with, the Law…
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