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Ayodhya’s dazzling diyas hide a political amnesia

For those who witnessed the dark days of the Ayodhya campaign, this year's Diwali celebration with its pomp and ceremony, its dazzling diyas, seemed surreal.

04 November 2024, 05:48 IST

Ayodhya’s dazzling diyas hide a political amnesia

Ayodhya’s dazzling diyas hide a political amnesia

Ayodhya’s dazzling diyas hide a political amnesia

04 November 2024, 05:48 IST

Yogi Adityanath’s pseudo ordinance is a ploy for religious targeting

Can a State which forces those involved in offering food to display their identity, in the name of guaranteeing the ‘purity’ of the food, be described as Ram Rajya?

24 October 2024, 05:56 IST

Yogi Adityanath’s pseudo ordinance is a ploy for religious targeting

Yogi Adityanath’s pseudo ordinance is a ploy for religious targeting

Yogi Adityanath’s pseudo ordinance is a ploy for religious targeting

24 October 2024, 05:56 IST

Politicians don’t really care about Maharashtra, its people

The sad reality is that the suffering of the ordinary Maharashtrian is not a concern for the state’s political establishment

10 October 2024, 05:58 IST

Politicians don’t really care about Maharashtra, its people

Politicians don’t really care about Maharashtra, its people

Politicians don’t really care about Maharashtra, its people

10 October 2024, 05:58 IST

India’s ‘unity in diversity’ is a distant folklore, reality is depressingly insular

No one is better placed to slam the door on ‘others’ than those who constitute the majority in any given area

23 September 2024, 05:56 IST

India’s ‘unity in diversity’ is a distant folklore, reality is depressingly insular

India’s ‘unity in diversity’ is a distant folklore, reality is depressingly insular

India’s ‘unity in diversity’ is a distant folklore, reality is depressingly insular

23 September 2024, 05:56 IST

Jagdish Tytler’s fall unlikely to raise hopes of Mumbai riot victims

The main reason why Mumbai’s victims gave up was because those they wanted to bring to book were not politicians; they were policemen

05 September 2024, 05:20 IST

Jagdish Tytler’s fall unlikely to raise hopes of Mumbai riot victims

Jagdish Tytler’s fall unlikely to raise hopes of Mumbai riot victims

Jagdish Tytler’s fall unlikely to raise hopes of Mumbai riot victims

05 September 2024, 05:20 IST

BJP governments are combating lawlessness with lawlessness

Bhajan Lal Sharma ordered that the accused student’s home be demolished. Leaving aside the dubious nature of this punishment, the chief minister seemed not to care that the house in question did not belong to the student’s family

23 August 2024, 06:43 IST

BJP governments are combating lawlessness with lawlessness

BJP governments are combating lawlessness with lawlessness

BJP governments are combating lawlessness with lawlessness

23 August 2024, 06:43 IST

Excuses to keep poor students out of RTE

Maharashtra is not the first state to try and help private unaided schools wriggle out of their responsibility to provide free education to a small number of economically weak children.

08 August 2024, 01:04 IST

Excuses to keep poor students
out of RTE

Excuses to keep poor students
out of RTE

Excuses to keep poor students out of RTE

08 August 2024, 01:04 IST

Excuses to deny poor children the right to education

Maharashtra, the state that proudly lays claim to Savitribai Phule, has asserted that the right to education is not absolute.

07 August 2024, 05:59 IST

Excuses to deny poor children the right to education

Excuses to deny poor children the right to education

Excuses to deny poor children the right to education

07 August 2024, 05:59 IST

Sterlite Firing | A most dangerous nexus

The connection being made is not between hired killers and industrialists, both private entities, but between an industrialist and the police, an arm of the State

26 July 2024, 06:29 IST

Sterlite Firing | A most dangerous nexus

Sterlite Firing | A most dangerous nexus

Sterlite Firing | A most dangerous nexus

26 July 2024, 06:29 IST

Spike in lynchings — It's not the election results, it's a deeper malaise

We’ve regressed into a society governed not by law but by mob fury against those who ‘offend our religious sentiments’ or those rumoured to have committed a crime

10 July 2024, 06:56 IST

Spike in lynchings — It's not the election results, it's a deeper malaise

Spike in lynchings — It's not the election results, it's a deeper malaise

Spike in lynchings — It's not the election results, it's a deeper malaise

10 July 2024, 06:56 IST