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Deepika Padukone showed you can rattle power with silence too – if you just stand up

Padukone’s act of solidarity for JNU students rattled BJP so much its leaders called for a boycott of her film Chhapaak while Smriti Irani turned personal.

All that remains for Pakistan now is to hope Gen Bajwa doesn’t turn out to be Gen Ayub Khan

Pakistani politicians who once pushed for control over policy-making have accepted that they can’t have that control. So they chose to hand it over to the military.

There’s hope for Indian economy if it becomes No. 1 priority of Modi govt instead of CAA

Govt can do more with its money. But question is how much political capital it’s willing to spend on economic reform, which could upset one section or another.

On JNU attack, Raghuram Rajan says easy to blame leadership but people responsible too

Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan asserted that democracy was more than just a right, and it is up to the people to be the keepers of India's Republic, not only on election day.

By taking envoys to Kashmir, including US ambassador, Modi govt is saying ‘Hum bhi dekhenge’

The subliminal message to the rest of India and the world is that any criticism on Kashmir is more or less irrelevant. Even the US is now complicit.

Modi govt’s major tool to save India from US-Iran conflict’s fallout – 2020 Budget

India, which enjoys cordial relations with both Iran and US, must delicately balance its stressed economy as global events spin out of control.

Indian intellectuals using secularism to shoot down CAA is only helping Hindutva camp

I decided to sign a petition in favour of the Modi government’s Citizenship (Amendment) Act, and was quickly labelled as an ‘Urban Nazi’.

Stop celebrating CDS. Gen Rawat will barely be able to command forces thanks to bureaucracy

The bureaucratic sleight of hand has put Gen Bipin Rawat at a disadvantage even as his tenure as India’s first Chief of Defence Staff has just begun.

Bumbling Nehru, paranoid Menon, divided Army — stunning tales from India’s military history

Jairam Ramesh’s brilliant new biography tells the story of V.K. Krishna Menon, who is reviled and demonised in the BJP-RSS worldview as the ‘villain of 1962’.

US-Iran tension, world war talk: For Pakistan, nothing more urgent than Bajwa’s extension

The speed with which Pakistani politicians passed the bill extending Gen Bajwa's tenure is alarming for a nation that has a history of military coups.

On Camera

Modi’s speech rightly questions politics of appeasement. Wrongly targets all Muslims

The PM did make a valid point when he criticised the Congress for categorising the entire Muslim community in Karnataka under the Other Backward Classes. It is pure appeasement of Ashraaf Muslims and discriminates against Pasmandas.

Foreign policy resonating among more Indians in 2nd & 3rd tier towns of India, says EAM Jaishankar

Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.