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TopicAnanth Kumar

Topic: Ananth Kumar

Change of guard, no family card: BJP’s larger message in ticket distribution

Ruhi Tewari -
BJP's ninth list is symbolic of its efforts to ease out the older guard beyond the obvious names and dismiss the 'family factor'.

Power gets concentrated in fewer hands after Modi govt loses one more minister

Neelam Pandey -
Ananth Kumar’s portfolios given to Sadananda Gowda and Narendra Tomar, triggering criticism that power remains concentrated in a few hands in Modi govt.

Ananth Kumar’s demise a big setback for BJP’s Karnataka 2019 plans

Rohini Swamy -
Although not a leader with mass appeal, Ananth Kumar had a reputation of being a sound strategist with expertise in organisational affairs.

‘Shah’ in Amit Shah is of Persian origin, says Irfan Habib

Rajgopal Singh -
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Ananth Kumar, a skillful administrator and a political heavyweight

Rohini Swamy -
Union minister Ananth Kumar, who passed away Monday, was an old political warhorse who never lost his Bengaluru (South) Lok Sabha constituency.

Union minister Ananth Kumar back in India after treatment, still needs to rest

Pragya Kaushika -
Union minister Ananth Kumar's office in Bengaluru has denied reports that he is suffering from cancer.

The cancer that ails 2 of India’s top politicians & a talent-averse Modi govt

ThePrint Team -
A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

As Ananth Kumar passes away, a look at politicians who have beaten or succumbed to cancer

Rahiba R. Parveen -
Union minister Ananth Kumar died Monday of cancer, a disease that also afflicts his former ministerial colleague Manohar Parrikar.

Union minister Ananth Kumar undergoes surgery in US, may return next weekend

Pragya Kaushika -
Minister’s office terms as 'rumours' reports that he has pancreatic cancer. BJP and government silent on nature of illness. 

One of the fastest spreading cancers that ails 2 of India’s top politicians

Rahiba R. Parveen -
Even if pancreatic cancer is diagnosed at an early stage, oncologists say the average survival time is 20 months.
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India wants to fit into value chains, not own them. MAGA shouldn’t think it’s China

Mihir Sharma -
Speaking in New Delhi last week, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau warned that “we will not make the same mistakes with India that we did with China 20 years ago.”

Indians’ outrage at Sunrisers Leeds signing Abrar Ahmed is puzzling. Are we fans or bullies?

When the scales tilt—Are our courts siding too often with the Centre?

Economy

A war in the Gulf, a crisis in Gujarat’s Morbi: India’s ceramics capital counts the cost

Esha Mishra -
Morbi makes 80-90% of India’s ceramic exports. The West Asia conflict has cut its propane supply, shutting 200 factories and threatening 400 more—along with 9 lakh livelihoods.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Shekhar Gupta -
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.

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