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Mopa: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the gathering during foundation stone laying ceremony of Greenfield Airport in Mopa, Goa on Sunday. PTI Photo/PIB(PTI11_13_2016_000167B)

The decline of Modi

Narendra Modi is not a strong leader. He is an incompetent one whom failures drove to dwell in a bubble.

A man holds a banner during a rally organised by All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), in support of the Muslim Personal Law against what they say is central government's move to change it and impose the Uniform Civil Code across the country, in Kolkata, India, November 20, 2016. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri

A monstrous wrong

There is no Quranic sanction for triple talaq at all. Muslims of India cannot avoid or evade the stark choice that faces them. Do they want their law

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he delivers his Independence Day speech from The Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 2016.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India was becoming the world's most attractive destination for foreign investors, using his annual Independence Day speech to trumpet sweeping tax reforms designed to spur growth. In an address from Delhi's 17th-century Red Fort, Modi sought to highlight his government's achievements, including the recent passage of a landmark tax reform, that have contributed to India's robust growth during a global slowdown.
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Balochistan vs Kashmir

The pursuit of a tit-for-tat diplomacy will not get India anywhere because Balochistan and Kashmir are not on a par, legally and politically. The time

Limits of diplomacy

The law on diplomatic practice and behaviour remains uncertain and uncodified; practice abounds in contradictions.

Chasing the middleman

A searing look at the pervasive role of middlemen in the financial dealings of the country and the nexus between industrialists and politicians.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the release of the full volume of works of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya at a function at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on Sunday. PTI Photo by Shahbaz Khan (PTI10_9_2016_000124B)

Deendayal Upadhyaya: Merchant of hate

The BJP’s clear attempts to extend to Deendayal Upadhyaya the kind of iconic status that Mahatma Gandhi enjoys in India are in line with the Jana Sang

Water as weapon

Neither international law nor the principle of equitable sharing permits the scrapping of the Indus Waters Treaty as a means of retaliation against Pa

The lawyer as writer

Many of the writer’s remarks are strikingly relevant to the Indian judicial system.

New Delhi, 23/01/2013: The Last Journey - Scenes after Mahathma Gandhiji's assasination - Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel also seen. Courtesy: Gandhi Smriti

RSS & Gandhi’s murder

There is enough historical evidence to nail the RSS’ lie that Nathuram Godse was not a member of that organisation when he assassinated Mahatma Gandhi

Kashmiri protesters hold a Pakistani flag, left, and an Islamic flag during the funeral of Danish Ahmad Haroon in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016. Haroon reportedly drowned in the Jhelum river when he along with other protestors were chased by security forces during a protest. Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both. Most Kashmiris want an end to Indian rule and favor independence or a merger with Pakistan. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Bankruptcy of policy

The alienation of the Kashmiri people has already reached a point of no return, but politicians continue to mouth platitudes and try to hide the hollo

The Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, and the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, waving their hands towards the crowd during a public meeting held at Sher-i-Kashmir cricket stadium in Srinagar on April 18, 2003. The Prime Minister is on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir. Vajpayee is the first Prime Minister in the last 15 years to address a public meeting in Srinagar.
Photo: Nissar Ahmad.

Vajpayee’s ‘insaniyat’

Vajpayee’s use of the slogan was of a piece with his evasion of specifics and was not informed by any real intent of conciliation.

SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, 10/07/2016: Kashmiri protestors clash with police during a protest in Batmallo Srinagar on July 10, 2016. A youth was killed in fresh clashes between the locals and security forces in Pulwama district on Sunday, taking the death toll to 16 in the violence which has also left 200 people injured. Four persons who were injured in the clashes on Saturday succumbed to injuries during the night.
Photo: Nissar Ahmad

Terrorism in Kashmir

Kashmir remains an open question. But the answer does not lie in branding protesters as terrorists and using brute force to stifle dissent. An ad hoc