editorial article

Shiv Kumar Padha The recent floods in Kashmir converted the entire Valley to a sea overnight, the unexpected floods took in its spate hundreds of precious lives both of the human and the livestock, destroyedthe property of the natives…
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Kuldip Nayar Prime Minister  Narendra Modi's visit to the US was, in more ways than one, a success. He may not have brought with him anything tangible from America but has created a climate of confidence and won back Washington which…
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Rajesh Singh A secular anchor of a secular television news channel asked actor Naseeruddin Shah in the course of an interview before a studio audience if he, as a Muslim, ever felt discriminated against in India. The anchor helpfully drew…
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Hiranmay Karlekar Now that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's highly successful visit to the United States is over, India needs to give serious thought to the developments on its northern and north-western borders. One can argue that there is…
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Kanwal Sibal If the media coverage in India of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's US visit and the adulation with which the Indian-American community greeted him in New York were any yardstick, it can already be labelled a resounding success.…
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Raj Paul Sharma Vice and virtue go together in this world of duality: neither is capable of eliminating the other. Maintenance of their harmonious proportion is a test for an effective social order. Once vice is allowed to cross the…
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra If the Modi Government's stance at the World Trade Organisation was a classic case of the best kind of decision-making being badly explained and badly sold to the public, then, sadly, examples in national security abound…
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Rakesh Cross-border aggression in the shape of mortar shelling and machine- gun firing across whole of the International Border and Line of Control measuring about 192 km in length by the Pakistan Rangers had rendered the people along both…
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Shyam Saran Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US has created a surge of expectations about the likely trajectory of India-US relations. There is a danger that this may defer a more objective reckoning of the realistic…
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Narinder Pal Sing She took up the gauntlets and with her strength of conviction decided to go to school and wear her school uniform and this act of her bravery to preserve the dignity of school going girls  provoked the ire of the…
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