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Opinion | Manmohan Singh, Who Brought The India Story To World Stage
Manmohan Singh transformed India, and did so with an uncommon level of integrity, personal incorruptibility and simple decency that were wholly admirable and moved all who had the privilege of knowing him.
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Opinion: Time For Modi's India To Walk The Talk On Energy
However the Doklam crisis is eventually resolved, it should not obscure the potential for genuine cooperation with China in tackling another crisis - one with arguably greater stakes for India and the world at large.
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Opinion: What Rahul Gandhi Must Do To Revive The Congress
Though I spent much of Election Day (19 May) before the national English and Hindi media discussing the electoral debacle of the Congress, I did not do so in an official capacity. I am not a party spokesman, a member of the Congress Working Committee, nor of any of its decision-making bodies. But as an individual member and elected MP of the Congress, I am dismayed to...
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Opinion: Kollam Temple Fire: 3 Lessons India Must Learn
Our attitude has become that it is always easier to obtain forgiveness than permission.
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Opinion: Let's Debate Nationalism, Not Bhagat Singh
Unless the voices of those calling for a humane and broad-minded view of the Indian nation are heard, we are in danger of being reduced to the very thing our forefathers rejected in 1947 - a Hindu Pakistan.
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Opinion: On 377, I Give Up, Hypocrisy And Bigotry Triumphs
My late father, Chandran Tharoor, used to tell me more than five decades ago that India is not just the world's largest democracy, it is also the world's largest hypocrisy. The wisdom and accuracy of his perception was again on display when my second attempt to introduce a Private Member's Bill to amend Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was defeated in the Lok Sabh...
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Opinion: Congratulations, BJP, On Creating The Kanhaiya Kumar Phenomenon
With his compelling fluency and brilliant rhetoric, his impish smile and sardonic humour, his mastery of idiomatic Hindi and his manifest sincerity, Kanhaiya seems to represent the idealism and passion long felt to be absent in the political class. In explicit contrast to the practised and cynical politicians running the nation, he offers an authentic voice of the peo...
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Opinion: Modi Declared It An Exam. 'Must Try Better' Is His Grade - By Shashi Tharoor
The tax collection targets are going to be very difficult to meet.
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Opinion: Set Kanhaiya Free. Dissent Is Not Anti-National.
A great deal has already been written about the arrest of JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and the ensuing national uproar. But the drama highlights a broader danger: the growing evidence that the BJP is orchestrating a deliberate and strategic assault on Indian universities.
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Opinion: The Larger Issue Behind - And Beyond - The Netaji Records
The measures taken by the Prime Minister in response to the decades-long Netaji controversy missed the forest for one set of trees. India still lacks comprehensive and accountable routines for maintaining accessible public records.
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Opinion: On My Twitter Dispute With Anupam Kher
My recent Twitter spat with Anupam Kher has, somewhat to my own surprise, been blown up out of all proportion, with thousands of retweets and several articles in the newspapers over an essentially innocuous exchange.
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Opinion: I'm Not Giving Up On Fighting Section 377
There's a price to be paid for bigotry, and the whole nation is paying it.
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Opinion: Lok Sabha Passed This Bill, But It's Deeply Flawed
The objective of the law is supposed to be to put in place an updated and modern practice of Alternate Dispute Resolution. Yet there are no provisions that encourage the use of technology during arbitration proceedings.
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Opinion: Bihar Defeat Sends Clear Message to Modi
The tide has turned. The main beneficiaries of this transformation can only be the Indian people.
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Opinion: Why Mr Jaitley is Wrong About Writers
The "manufactured controversy" (to quote our honourable Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley) over the return by over 40 writers of their Sahitya Akademi Awards in protest against the Dadri butchery of Mohammed Akhlaq and related killings refuses to die down.
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Opinion: Why Modi's US Trip Wasn't All That It Was Made Out To Be
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is back from the US, and to read some of the encomia showered on him, view the breathless coverage on Indian media, and listen to the over-the-top pronouncements of government and BJP spokesmen, it would seem that this second trip to America was nothing short of the Second Coming.
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Opinion: My Latest Exchange With Modi-ji About Clean India
Swachh Bharat should not be reduced to one more Modi public-relations gimmick, more visible in the headlines than in the streets.
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Opinion: Not Just OROP. Another Grave Injustice For Army.
With all the understandable (and justified) focus on OROP, the media appears to have missed another major development in the Ministry of Defence - a decision to extend Short Service Commissions for 14 years.
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Opinion: Hanging Yakub Memon Makes Us Murderers Too
Should our society be practising the philosophy of 'an eye for an eye'?
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Opinion: On My 'Praise' for PM Modi
Our media sees every debate in the binary terms made famous by George W. Bush: "are you with us or against us?"
