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Mayuri Mukherjee The meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly was undoubtedly a landmark one. It was the first official…
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Mahesh Kaul   State of Jammu and Kashmir has the distinction of being the habitat to varied species of birds besides rich in vegetation and climatic conditions that makes it the desired destination of these myriad species. It is the…
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G Parthasarathy In the minds of the New Delhi elite, India's South Asian neighbourhood is made up of solely the seven members of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), even though we share no land borders with three of…
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Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd)    Many hubristic public figures who often proclaim, in the media, that "India is no banana republic", may be less strident, if they learnt the actual implications of such a label. It is not merely a term used…
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Swapan Dasgupta Compared to the somewhat muted reaction to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's inauguration of the 'Make In India' campaign at Vigyan Bhavan last Thursday, the media has definitely worked itself into a frenzy over his visit to…
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The third eye is connected to our intuitive powers. Hindus acknowledge it and pay respect to it daily by wearing a bindi or tilak at the exact spot where this invisible third eye is located. But apparently, it also has a lot to do with…
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Claude Arpi There are two ways to look at an event, especially a state visit by a foreign dignitary: It can be described as a resounding success, a game-changer, or it can be seen as a missed opportunity, a failure. President Xi Jinping's…
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Swapan Dasgupta Every government is periodically confronted with problems created by the swagger and reckless behaviour of its functionaries. However, when such events escalate into a full-blown crisis, it is often symptomatic of a larger…
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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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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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