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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
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Topic: Hindutva

As BJP rises, let us not confuse Muslim representation with political participation

Hilal Ahmed -
The Muslim communities, like any other social group, participate in electoral politics at the constituency level.

Rahul Gandhi is truly a cosmo-religious man

Kumar Ketkar -
Raising religion as an issue in the emerging campaign shows that the BJP is losing its development plank and is re-polarising the electorate.

Rahul Gandhi should stick to Pidi’s coochie coo identity. It is safe and abstract.

Shivani Channan -
To claim Indianness, Rahul Gandhi must be a Hindu. And being Hindu is more than religious construct, it is a barometer of Indian-ness.

Yogi’s remark on encounters will encourage police to take short cuts

Vappala Balachandran -
Uttar Pradesh is notorious for police atrocities. The statement can encourage “encounter-killing” as a short-cut to detailed prosecution and trial.

RSS benefits most from keeping Hindutva loosely defined

Hilal Ahmed -
Hindutva is celebrated by the RSS/BJP; but there is no serious effort to clarify it.

The shifting stance of RSS on India’s past means the debate on Taj Mahal isn’t over yet

Hilal Ahmed -
It was in the book by the self-declared Hindu scholar P. N. Oak that the Taj Mahal controversy was first introduced in the 1960s.

From Lord Curzon to BJP’s Sangeet Som, Taj Mahal has many political narratives

Hilal Ahmed -
Taj Mahal has always functioned as a political text, capable of producing a number of different and even conflicting meanings.

Gauri Lankesh murder: We are witnessing the battle for the second Republic of India

Manish Tewari -
When fake news, alternative facts, trolling and vituperative abuse are now the new normal, public space is no longer for the faint-hearted.

Hindutva to Hindutva-plus

Shekhar Gupta -
Mr Modi has changed the politics of Hindu grievance to that of Hindu resurgence, from soft secularism to hard nationalism.

A Nagpur manifesto

Shekhar Gupta -
Why the reality of the new RSS-BJP arrangement should be accepted but questioned on its view on diversity.
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India’s draft guidelines on biosimilar drugs can make treatments more accessible, affordable

Chetali Rao -
Though India has built a robust domestic biosimilar market, its international presence and the ability to lower prices as compared to small molecule generics remain limited.

India vs Pakistan in Asia Cup? Cricket with terror state Pakistan is good for business after all

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‘More careful than colourful’—ThePrint’s reporting on the Air India crash put facts first

Economy

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

Udit Bubna -
In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

Defence

India’s air defence system foiled 1,000 Pakistani drone attacks on 9 May—Modi tells Parliament

Debdutta Chakraborty -
New Delhi: India’s air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 1,000 drones and missiles launched by Pakistan on 9 May during Op Sindoor, Prime Minister...

National Interest

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

Shekhar Gupta -
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.

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