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Smriti Irani: time to course correct

Sharad Pawar is a man of few words, Smriti Irani a woman with a vast…

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हां, मैं राष्ट्र-विरोधी हूं, क्योंकि…

नब्बे के दशक में देश की राजनीति धर्मनिरपेक्षता बनाम छद्म धर्मनिरपेक्षता में विभाजित थी ;…

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Yes, I am anti-national

In the 1990s, the country’s polity was divided by secular versus pseudo secular faultlines; now,…

Honouring Babasaheb

A few years ago, we invited a public vote to decide on the greatest Indian after Mahatma Gandhi for the History tv channel. The winner, by some distance, was Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. The architect of the Indian constitution is that rare individual: ignored in life, venerated in death. Ironically, we see the opposite with Jawaharlal Nehru: hero-worshipped as India’s first prime minister, now targeted years later.