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National Security Adviser Ajit Doval at a function to release a book on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, in New Delhi on September 4.

History of betrayals

The National Security Adviser’s rants against Jammu and Kashmir’s Constitution stem from not only ignorance of history but also the fascist mindset of

The Babri Masjid in 1992.

Politics of history

The Sangh Parivar is at war with India’s history, which is in no small measure aided by the British rulers’ interpretations and interventions. The Som

Amit Shah delivering his lecture on Bankimchandra in Kolkata in June. Blaming the Congress for Partition, he said that the decision to truncate the song Vande Mataram led to the division of the country in 1947.

Vande Mataram: Text in Context

Vande Mataram has now emerged as the battle cry of militant Hindutva as the Sangh Parivar discards all veneer of a pluralistic ethos in the nation’s c

In a hospital in Srinagar in August 2016, youths who suffered pellet injuries in their eyes when security personnel opened fire on protesters. The use of pellet guns was criticised by all.

The wrongs in Kashmir

It is hard to imagine a more even-handed report than the “Situation of Human Rights in Kashmir” by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner

November 1977: RSS sarsanghchalak Balasaheb Deoras (left) with Jayaprakash Narayan at the latter’s residence.

RSS & Emergency

The RSS and its flock in the BJP have no locus standi to make noises about the Emergency. Its own leaders grovelled before the Congress dispensation t

Former President Pranab Mukherjee (centre) stands alongside Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (second left), and other RSS leaders as they take a pledge at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur on June 7.

Pranab’s mission with a purpose

The former President of India consciously gave the RSS the respectability it has long coveted. The RSS, in return, removed his deceptive cloak and gav

Smoke rising from a mortar shell fired by the Pakistani Army near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district in November 2017.

What ails Kashmir?

Kashmir’s leaders must abandon their all-or-nothing approach and launch a “peace offensive” to resurrect the Four-Point Formula of 2006 that would mak

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah at the concluding session of the National Executive Committee meeting of the party at the Civic Centre in New Delhi on May 17.

Modi & dissent

The state has turned a libeller with intimidation as its weapon, inspiring mobs and using them as its tools. To what depths will Narendra Modi and Ami

Karnataka : Bengaluru : 17/05/20018 : B S Yeddyurappa was administered the oath by Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala at Raj Bhavan during Swearing in Ceremony on 17 May 2018. Photo: V Sreenivasa Murthy

Solutions for a hung legislature

The Constitution Drafting Committee dropped at the very last minute the Instruments of Instructions for the President and the Governors because it was

NEW DELHI, 31/12/2017: Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India, February 1948; (Sitting - from left) N. Madhava Rao; Saiyid Muhammad Saadulla; Dr. B.R. Ambedkar; Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar and Sir B.N. Rao (Standing from left) S.N. Mukerjee, Jugal Kishore Khanna and Kewal Krishan, in New Delhi.

Farce of impeachment

The institution of impeachment of judges is obsolete. The time has come for a non-partisan attempt at reform. The proposed law should provide for both

(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 9, 2018 US President Donald Trump shakes hands with National Security Advisor John Bolton during a meeting with senior military leaders at the White House in Washington, DC.
Trump has not decided whether or not to scrap the Iran nuclear deal, Bolton said on April 29, 2018. 'He has made no decision on the nuclear deal, whether to stay in or get out,' Bolton told Fox News Sunday.
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Of Ajit Bolton & John Doval

Foreign policymaking is a sphere where dissenting voices are indispensable. Certitude, a vice of the ideologue, leads to disaster. But in the U.S. and

Kochi, Kerala, 13/01/2018 : Supreme Court judge Kurian Josephd at an event to celebrate the 25 yeras of Major Archiepiscopal status to the Syro Malabar Church in Ernakulam on Saturday. Photo: Thulasi Kakkat.

Crisis in judiciary

The existence of the power to select colleagues on the bench over which the Chief Justice of India presides or to allocate cases to his colleagues is