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Ram Guha is wrong. Gandhi went from a racist young man to a racist middle-aged man

There is a reason why Ghanaians protested the Gandhi statue and said #GandhiMustFall.

Unlike anti-Congressism, politics of anti-BJPism is still to ripen in 2019

2019 election is going to be all about electoral sanity versus electoral vanity.

BJP has a family problem and it’s not Gandhi-Nehru

Amit Shah rendered BJP workers irrelevant, and they will come back to bite him in 2019.

Heavy debts alone are not driving farmers to suicide

Instead of loan waivers, policy makers need to peel through the layers to figure out what farmers really need.

6 things Narendra Modi should do to get his mojo back in 2019

Narendra Modi must reclaim the narrative, reconnect with the voters, and hard sell his brand all over again.

Both BJP and Congress are complicit in expanding state surveillance without legal basis

An MHA order authorises 10 central agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt information.

Farmer leader Charan Singh’s manifestos never promised easy solutions like loan waivers

Charan Singh played a crucial role in the politicisation of the peasantry and made it a formidable political force. 

India may finally race forward in electric cars

Modi govt's new target of ensuring that 30% of all vehicles be electric by 2030 is a surprising & refreshing change.

Why Narasimha Rao is India’s most vilified, deliberately misunderstood and forgotten PM

Here is why, even though Narasimha Rao's style was so hopelessly understated as to amount to self-denial, his method was thorough and effective.

Abduct me, bully me, chase me out, but I still love Pakistan and won’t shut up

Pakistani columnist Gul Bukhari writes about loving Pakistan, but not blindly.

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University townships — India’s chance to build its own version of what America got right

India’s university towns initiative is an opportunity to do something we have never managed at scale: build knowledge ecosystems rather than knowledge silos.

FTA partners drive India’s trade surge as reliance on non-FTA countries dips, says NITI Aayog report

Share of trade with FTA partners rose from 4.6% in 2006 to 28.8% in 2024. India is currently negotiating or advancing agreements with US, Israel, GCC, Canada & Mexico.

Japan overhauls post-World War II pacifist military approach, lifts restrictions on defence exports

Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.