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Project in progress

The decision to allow snooping into data in every computer in the country seems to have been made at the highest level and is of a piece with the ruli

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People walk past a narrow lane covered with dust caused by the demolition of buildings, in Varanasi on November 24. Demolition work is being carried out for the Kashi Vishwanath Temple Corridor.

Steamrolling ahead

The demolition drive in Varanasi continues, bringing down heritage edifices and polarising the population.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah at the parliamentary party meeting in New Delhi on December 13.

Writing on the wall

The elections in the three Hindi heartland States of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh not only put the Congress back in power but also smash

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Cauvery chronicles

The book explores the Cauvery and the trajectories of everyday life of the communities living by the river, informed by a spirit of inquiry and a suba

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Sadhus at the Dharma Sabha organised by the VHP in Ayodhya, on November 25.

Angst in Ayodhya

Many Muslims flee their homes as they fear VHP and Shiv Sena cadres descending on the town will do more than competitive communal sloganeering in view

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The Kashi Vishwanath Temple and the Gyanvapi Masjid in Varanasi.

Target Varanasi

In a striking similarity with the way in which the area surrounding the Babri Masjid was cleared by a BJP State government in 1991-92, homes, temples

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'Magic Gali', a unique heritage alley of Kashi.

Attack on heritage

SENIOR officers in the Varanasi Development Authority and the Uttar Pradesh government justify the acquisition-demolition drive undertaken in the temp

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CBI Director Alok Verma, who has challenged the decision to divest him of all charges.

Undermining institutions

The Narendra Modi government’s interference in the functioning of the CBI seems to be part of a larger pattern of undermining institutions of governan

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Congress president Rahul Gandhi addressing current and retired employees of the public sector aerospace and defence manufacturing company, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, in Bengaluru on October 13 as part of a campaign against the Narendra Modi government on the Rafale deal.

Looking for a way out

The absence of a strong political movement against the questionable transactions involved in the Rafale deal allows the Narendra Modi government to ad

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Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Law Minister for Law and Justice. He said that the Aadhaar verdict would enhance good governance and empower the poor and strengthen their voice.

Parentage claims

As the BJP and the Congress try to establish that the Aadhaar verdict is a vindication of their role in the project, the principled opposition to the

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Muslims offering prayers in the mosque at Feroz Shah Kotla fort in New Delhi on August 22.

A saffron twist

The Sangh Parivar interprets the Supreme Court’s verdict declining to revisit its 1994 observations about the place of mosques in Islam as a major ste

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Workers and farmers at the Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Rally in New Delhi on September 5.

Downward spiral

The distress in the economy bodes ill for the Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre, especially at a time when it finds its “clean” image ta

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